Oh crap!

Oh dear. Has the box gone? Do you have a USB back up?

..... and I've just seen the iPod thread. Shit indeed.

You are not alone, our CD player seems to have given up the ghost after only 16years, nothing seems to last these days.   Worse, no longer repairable! 

Although it has been switch off for several weeks as we only seem to stream now it is strangely uncomfortable knowing you are not able to spin a disc.

Good luck with your attempted re-flash.

Peter 

Poxy Windows Firewall...

Yes, QNAP Finder does see the NAS, but it appears to have gone back to factory settings. That's a start at least.

Wishful thinking...

It's official. The unit is bricked. 

My only choice is to send it back for repair. That's going to hurt and takes weeks. Why does it always happen at the most inconvenient times??

Worst part is I will be without music until it is returned  

Can your dealer loan you something?

A backup in the source too. Although a bit of high load I still have 3 sources so not too bothered if one "goes down", once I get my NAS sorted I'll back up to another H/D so I can still play from the PC.

I know this is  of no help to you.

I don't know too much about these NAS things, but isn't your music still on the H/Ds in the unit, so maybe that is still intact and you just need the "reader" to be fixed?  

Now you just convinced me.

I'll stick to my original plan (who comes from computeraudiophile.com if I'm not mistaken)

Since I ripped my cd many years ago, it's all MP3...  I'm now in the process of doing it again but FLAC format this time.

-So I'm making a copy for my "daily" usage on my drive#1.  I can do whatever with it, rename, change volume or bite rate, etc.

-One copy on my drive #2, the master files.  That as to stay clean as it was when ripped (not even compressed)

-And finally on drive #3 my back up copy of the master files.

DBpoweramp is making all these copies at once so it's making my life more easy (I even do a 4th copy (mp3 again) for the little portable devices)

I was wondering if it was overkill.  Now reading your post, I'll stick to the plan.

Don't look at the 800 CD mountain for now, start with a few ones to cover the next weeks events.

Slowly you'll go through it!  Good luck!

This sounds as useful/customer friendly as car manufactures coding the ECUs to actual cars, so you need a main dealer to install the replacements (if you can afford them).

Tying to specific box sounds really bad in a customer care basis. I can understand some sort of security stopping someone stealing your H/Ds and installing them in another box, but if you are replacing the box surely there must be a way that the factory can reinstall? If not and you have to re-rip I would suggest getting another manufactures device, after asking suitable questions about data security and recovery.

I'll have ask what the situation with my HP server.

Does that mean your data is saved?

don´t worry for your music collection - I had a similar issue when my qnap died due to overvoltage after a lightning strike (fortunately my Naim equipment was shut down).

After I bought a completely new qnap NAS (switched from TS-119 to TS-419U now) I inserted the original hard drive and during first installation the setup routine recognised an existing system on this disk and asked if all data and adjustments shall be kept. I ticked yes and voila - after a few minutes which included the latest firmware update I had all my music back. Well done qnap!

regards

chesky

Thank god I have never had that happen to me (yet) - I have so far owned a Synology 106j, a Qnap 209 II and am currently running a Synology 209 +. The only issue I had was with two 1tb WD-FYPS disks that had similar (early production) defects that would render them unstable in a raid set-up. Fortunately the contents of the disks were left untouched by this instability.

I have two back-up disks: a sata-disk attached directly to my NAS and a dedicated disk on my main computer. Onto those I back-up the Synology music folder at irregular intervals. I suppose that the only thing that would completely erase everything would be a house fire or a very thorough burglar (knock on wood).

Good luck with your new Qnap!

Best wishes,

Peter

Thanks for the encouragement Rosewind,

Ok, so here's an update...

Ordered a new TS-412U last week and it arrived overnight from Denmark. Ordered it at 3pm and it arrived by 11am next day. Wow!

Stuck my disks it it and powered it up. It said "initialising disks"!!! so they were quickly removed . Turns out that the disk array is not recognised between the models of QNAP NAS that I have.  BEWARE!!

So, an working NAS with no disks. Hmm. Remembered I had a couple of spare 250GB disks handing around so stuck them in and ripped a few of my favourite CD's and presto! Music again. So that was Xmas sorted anyway.

A week later (today) my repaired TS-409U arrived home. Replaced the power supply. Have to say that the guys at QNAP bent over backwardss to be helpful, especially at this time of year. Cost me £101 to send it to the Netherlands, get it repaired, and sent back. Over Xmas. Can't complain about that.

Re-united the 409 with it's old disks and upgraded the firmware. Everything back to normal.Full library of music, films, and pictures all safe and sound.

Now backing stuff up!!

Is there a moral to this? I guess; you can't plan for everything...

Happy New Year to you all!

Steve

Lumme Steve, this is worrying stuff but I'm glad it resolved itself in the end.

The Computer Audiophile method cited above always seemed to me a little OTT but on the other hand maybe the risk of losing everything means it's what we should all be doing.

Personally I rip once via DBpoweramp to the NAS in FLAC and back up the NAS every month or so via USB onto a portable hard drive. It takes 2 days (yes, really) to back up!

I wonder if there should be a sticky about backing up...