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It was this nasty Intel clock drift bug: forum.qnap.com/viewtopic.php?t=157459

Support was completely unresponsive and refused to do anything. Didn’t even acknowledge the issue AFAIK. I tried to add the resistor but my copy of the NAS didn’t expose the right pins so I couldn’t even solder them on if I wanted to. Then I tried mounting my drives into another Linux machine, at which point I realized they were using some custom version of LVM that didn’t work with standard Linux. I ended up having to buy a new QNAP NAS just to retrieve my data and then I returned it.

After that, I swore off proprietary NASes. If I can’t easily retrieve data from perfectly good drives, it is an absolute no go.

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lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

If I can’t easily retrieve data from perfectly good drives, it is an absolute no go.

I’ve been running the same md-raid drives through three different machines. I love that about md-raid. Pull the drives out of one system, stick them into another system with mdadm installed, and it recognizes the array immediately.

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