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Spent ages putting content onto my new nas drive. One of a pair I got to replace another.
This drive worked fine along with my other 1 tb nas for about 2 weeks.
Then they both disappeared. Overnight I cannot get either to become available.
Do routers pack up?
I've swapped almost every part including the unused spare nas enclosure even the cables and psu but nothing.
Trying it plugged into my father in laws box tonight. Otherwise I'm stumped.
Smart tv works fine. Apple tv the laptop via ethernet all ok.
But three drives dead at the same time. One while still being in its box?
Any usefull suggestions?
Mine (a WD mybook) needed a factory reset before it was fully functional. I did the same as you... bought it, plugged it in, my laptop saw it so I spent ages copying stuff over. After that it refused to show up. A bit of reading suggested the factory reset. I did that recopied the files and it's been good since.
Can you plug it in directly to a PC with a network lead? Mine works without a router, a bit like a usb drive, if you do that.
Networking issues?
I have heard(*) that some broadband routers have pretty crap DHCP servers built in that don't cope with DHCP IP addresses and DHCP reservations that well. I know my router has "issues" after a period of time with the IP webcam I got for the dogs. It just stops being reachable on the network until the router is rebooted. Pi is fine because it's a static IP address, all other devices are DHCP but not reserved,
Did the factory reset of the router without success, reset it back to standard without any change.
Just tried it on the Father In Laws home hub. Only device on it and my works windows laptop finds it fine but won't read anything off it just keeps spinning.
Might just take them back and build a new server computer. Odd that all of the drive went missing at the same time.
I have heard(*) that some broadband routers have pretty crap DHCP servers built in that don't cope with DHCP IP addresses and DHCP reservations that well. I know my router has "issues" after a period of time with the IP webcam I got for the dogs. It just stops being reachable on the network until the router is rebooted. Pi is fine because it's a static IP address, all other devices are DHCP but not reserved,
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