- Dec 11, 2017
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Hello,
I noticed about a week ago that my Seagate Central NAS drive was no longer appearing on my network. When I looked at the device there is just a solid amber light showing.
Yesterday I followed all Seagate's troubleshooting advice (reboot, direct connect) and was always met with just a solid amber light. When I look at my router settings it is not seeing anything in the LAN ports, even with a new ethernet cable. I also moved the power plug to a different socket (although must admit that it was also in an extension cable).
When I boot it up it does make a whirring sound as it gets up to sped before a click stops it. It then tries again, gets up to the click and then just goes silent. I have never dropped the device or split any liquid on it etc.
I am trying to work out if it is a harddrive failure or an issue with the NAS device itself. I don't want to keep booting it up to test things out but I am also not in a rush to pay £100 for data recovery.
Thanks,
Sam
I noticed about a week ago that my Seagate Central NAS drive was no longer appearing on my network. When I looked at the device there is just a solid amber light showing.
Yesterday I followed all Seagate's troubleshooting advice (reboot, direct connect) and was always met with just a solid amber light. When I look at my router settings it is not seeing anything in the LAN ports, even with a new ethernet cable. I also moved the power plug to a different socket (although must admit that it was also in an extension cable).
When I boot it up it does make a whirring sound as it gets up to sped before a click stops it. It then tries again, gets up to the click and then just goes silent. I have never dropped the device or split any liquid on it etc.
I am trying to work out if it is a harddrive failure or an issue with the NAS device itself. I don't want to keep booting it up to test things out but I am also not in a rush to pay £100 for data recovery.
Thanks,
Sam
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