

As far as potentially lost files, I’m talking a lifetime of photographic memories as a beginning point, ok? And, even if they did, I’d probably lose every **bleep** file that is backed up on the device. Is WD going to replace the unit for me? I doubt it. I have almost $1000 invested in a device that WD’s firmware hosed. That means that I understand what should be normal and what isn’t when I see it. I don’t know a lot about these units, but I’ve almost 15 years of IT experience under my belt.

Regardless of the LCD message, I have the constantly blinking HDD LEDs. NOTHING changes the ‘state’ of the device. Thank you for your contribution, but, I shouldn’t have to ignore constantly flashing LEDs, or be without admin access to the device.Ģndly, I’ve already been through the basic troubleshooting, level 1 helpdesk options. However, I know not what all is involved with a ‘soft reset’…database may have to be rebuilt…I don’t know…going to let it run for another day or so just to see if LEDs stop blinking, and/or, if the LCD message changes. Or, should I say that it SHOULDN’T take this long to reboot. I’ve been in a “System Rebooting” LCD message mode for the past 4 hours or so…doesn’t take that long to boot one of these even though they move about as fast as molasses.

I’d also bet the amount of money I made last year that there is absolutely NO WAY that this many people could have power supplies all going out at the same time…and, I made a very respectable amount of money last year. Not difficult to do, but, I have no faith in error message that I’m getting since the number of power supply ‘failing’ seems contingent upon which power port you plug into. I replaced one in my Netgear ReadyNAS NV+ a few months ago. They are similar to power supplies in a desktop or tower although form factor is a bit different. The reference is to internal power supplies.
