Ive had my shared storage 2 for a few years now, over the last 6 months I havnt used it at all because of moving stuff around etc. I rebuilt my computer at the weekend and decided to use the ss2 to back all my data up too. All went well until I went to reconnected it. I could ping the ip address but do nothing else. After rebooting one of the HDDs was clicking and sounded like it was stuck in a starting loop. I wasnt too concerned as I had it all setup in Raid1, so I thought I'd still be able to get the data off it somehow. I trawled the forum reading lots of posts about failed devices and people loosing all their data as the warrenty is a direct replacement which isn't good enough for me.
I took the hard disks out at work as we have a caddy to connect via USB. I could see the disk under disk management in windows. I did some further reading and noticed it was formatted for linux. I used an Ubuntu live cd and tried to mount it to that. Lots of small partitions showed up with folders i didn't recognise. There was also a disk that just said "Array". I take it this is where all my data is? I used a program called r-linux that I read should recover linux partitions but I guess it didnt work because of the raid1.
So is there any way I can get it back? Im pretty [Edit: Please do not evade the word filter] that a device i spent around £200 on wasn't as fail safe as I thought. I work in IT so I'm quite tech savvy.
Are there any programs to recover data from a Raid without a second disk? Or can I simply replace the disk and the SS2 will rebuild it for me?
I'd really appreciate any help as there are memories on there I want to keep. Thanks.
