Netgear Storage Central SC101 Issue

[stu_b]

I've had the Netgear SC101 with 2 x Maxtor 300GB HDDs purchased back in February from Novatech, it's been working excellently until last weekend.

Configured as a single 300Gb Mirrored network drive, we've been using it to rip our music collection and digitise our old film-based photo's and as a 'safe' store for our digital photo's.

It dropped off the network and once re-attached the content of the drive appears to be about 4-months old! What's going on? I thought mirroring meant that the data was written to both drives simultaneously, either that or whatever amounts to a FAT on the DataPlow Filesystem is corrupt!

I've been exchanging notes with Netgear for the past week, but they really don't seem to have a clue.

Given that it's advertised as 'fail-safe network storage' and encourages 'back-up of valuable files', I'm starting to think it's being mis-sold and not fit for purpose - particularly when you read the number of blogs out there discussing vanishing partitions, etc.

Any comments, help, advice would be much appreciated, especially when some of the missing recent files have sentimental value to the family and no other copies.

Thanks,
Stuart

[Penders]

I realise this was quite a while back, but did you manage to resolve this issue / get your data back?

[Taxation]

have you tried using a data recovery program on the drives??
I would recomend backing your data onto cd's/dvd's and getting their tech support to have a physical look at it their end, as it is much harder to solve a problem over phone/internet than it is when the product is right there infront of you