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- Dave the bass
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Okay, the old QNAP isn't dead but it eats new power supplies at an alarming rate. The cheapy 12V 5A job I got from Ebay lasted 10 minutes before dying. So I want the easiest way of getting the remaining data of the disc (rather than piece together backups).
The disc is a SATA (Seagate Barracuda) I think formatted to nfs (not Windows). My only proper desktop is a 9 year old XP box with a spare 3.5" bay but probably IDE. Is this worth a try and will XP read it?
Alternatively how about an enclosure to turn it into a USB drive? They look to be available for a tenner.
Thoughts much appreciated.
The disc is a SATA (Seagate Barracuda) I think formatted to nfs (not Windows). My only proper desktop is a 9 year old XP box with a spare 3.5" bay but probably IDE. Is this worth a try and will XP read it?
Alternatively how about an enclosure to turn it into a USB drive? They look to be available for a tenner.
Thoughts much appreciated.
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That's what I use to read old hard drives. Mine is self powered (ie does not rely on computer for power) and has parallel/serial connectors for hard drive .simon wrote: Alternatively how about an enclosure to turn it into a USB drive? They look to be available for a tenner.
Thoughts much appreciated.
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#35
Simon, that might just be what you get with some cheap ebay power supplies rather than a problem with the old NAS?simon wrote:The cheapy 12V 5A job I got from Ebay lasted 10 minutes before dying.
Anyway, as an alternative to the caddy, especially if you aren't sure what you have or how to do it or it's a one off exercise, is to pop into your local PC repair shop; most towns seem to have a local expert working out of a small shop unit. They'll have the kit and knowledge and aren't usually too expensive. Yesterday, the chap local to me quoted £25 to extract data onto a couple of DVDs, though he did say the cost might rise depending on just how much data was involved.
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Yes, I'm sure the ebay PS was built to a price - it was very light. That's three supplies it's killed now - the original, an expensive Maplin job as well as the ebay cheapy. Something's not right somewhere and I just want to get the data off and start again.
That's an interesting thought to just pay someone to do it though Ray, I hadn't considered it. Really I want to have access to the whole disk (400GB worth) so I'm going to give a caddy a go and see what happens. If it doesn't work I might have to find a local backstreet bod.
That's an interesting thought to just pay someone to do it though Ray, I hadn't considered it. Really I want to have access to the whole disk (400GB worth) so I'm going to give a caddy a go and see what happens. If it doesn't work I might have to find a local backstreet bod.