My Seagate Personal Cloud SRN21C died. Fixable?

[RBShooter]

Had it plugged in to my network, just realized it died....probably long ago.

I've tried rebooting it, resetting it by powering up while holding in the reset button, but all I get is a few seconds of spinning sound, a few clicks, then nada.

Is this thing repairable, within reason, or is it now garbage.

A friend gave it to me and I don't have any software for it, but imagine I can download from somewhere if it is saveable, within reason.

[SactoDoug]

If you can't get it back and running again you can pulled the hard drives out of it and get your data off. I would recommend using a hard drive docking station. You can get a decent one for $20-35. If you don't have one or don't want to buy one, you can also plug them into a powered down working computer, then start it up to read from the drive.

[RBShooter]

If you can't get it back and running again you can pulled the hard drives out of it and get your data off. I would recommend using a hard drive docking station. You can get a decent one for $20-35. If you don't have one or don't want to buy one, you can also plug them into a powered down working computer, then start it up to read from the drive.

Interesting, many thanks for this. I have the data stored else where so I'm not worried about that. I'm just wondering if resurrecting this thing would be worth whatevers involved. Seems like replace the HD(s) and somehow get its OS back on?

[SactoDoug]

Interesting, many thanks for this. I have the data stored else where so I'm not worried about that. I'm just wondering if resurrecting this thing would be worth whatevers involved. Seems like replace the HD(s) and somehow get its OS back on?

IMO it would not be worth it to try that. If you are going to buy new drives you might as well buy a whole new NAS box. The drives are the bulk of the cost of it. If your drives are good, you can buy a new NAS box with empty bays where you just plug your drives in.

You need to do a cost benefit analysis of your options.

[reach147]

Interesting, many thanks for this. I have the data stored else where so I'm not worried about that. I'm just wondering if resurrecting this thing would be worth whatevers involved. Seems like replace the HD(s) and somehow get its OS back on?

[RBShooter]

Thanks for this. That's probably what happened as I had the thing turned on and left on for several years, while rarely accessing it. Bad on me. Not sure if I want to dump $ on new HDDs for it but I'll probably just sit on it and if I come across an old HDD maybe I'll try replacing at that time.

[ibanezfoo]

An old school trick for mechanical drive is to put them in the freezer for a little while then plug it into a computer quickly and try to get your data off.

[reach147]

An old school trick for mechanical drive is to put them in the freezer for a little while then plug it into a computer quickly and try to get your data off.