power outage caused raid1 failiure

[jab]

I just bought the thecuse N2100 last week. I purchased 2 1tb seagate drives and configured raid1. I copied 500gb of data to the thecus, configured users, groups, etc. Then a power outage at my house. Thecus was on a surge protector but no UPS. When power returned, I booted thecus and no raid configuration, it sees drive capacity=0. How can I recover this data? I bought thecus for SECURITY and peace of mind that my data would be secure, now I'm scared data is gone forever! Please help asap!

[jab]

If I recreate the raid1, will it destroy the data? I am very inexperienced with RAID and do not want to do anything in haste.

[jeffro3604]

Hold off on reconfiguring your raid. I may be wrong, but I believe when RAID configures it reformats.

[spiken]

It sounds bad
And there is a lot of problems with the seagate 1TB drives and n2100.

[jab]

:PNot what I was hoping to hear. I think I will be returning the Thecus and purchasing a linksys.

JAB

[spiken]

I don't think it's a good choice, linksys only have one nas, the nas200, and it has relative poor performance and features.

Linksys nas:
www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1175236876915&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=7691562139B02

Nas 200 performance and features :
www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30127/75/

[jab]

Yep,

the linksys is not a great choice. I will have to do some comparative shopping to find the right choice. I thought I made the right choice with the Thecus, but did not visit this forum before purchasing. Had no idea that some drives work better than others. Oh well, live and learn.

[spiken]

To try to recover your data you can put one of your two thecus drive into your pc and boot it with a linux system or any linux live cd.

The disk should be auto mounted by linux, then you just have to copy your data into your pc drive/usb drive/ip drive.

[EDIT] It seems that the Seagate 1TB works with the n2100 :
thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=installationissues&action=display&thread=85&page=3#284
there:
thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=installationissues&action=display&thread=353&page=1#1585
and there:
thecususergroup.proboards106.com/index.cgi?board=installationissues&action=display&thread=85&page=3#282

[jab]

Yep mine was working until the power outage. Then dead drives. I can mount the drives on my pc but no data is there. looks like thecus coprrupted the drives on the poweroutage.

I have RMA'd the thecus and am switching to an alternative. Found the D-link 343 and am going to try it. I like the idea of raid5 also.

Thanks for all your help.
JAB