What I need to find is a *complete* image of a 3TB drive from a Seagate Personal Cloud SRN21C.
I bought one off eBay, used, cheap. It arrived with the HDD bad, despite being "tested" and a wall wart different than pictured. It had also obviously been pried open. I got a refund and got to keep it.
Then I opened it to find the drive had been removed and replaced, the EMI shield tape was pulled loose. Most likely a previous owner attempted to recover data. I found an "open box" drive of the exact same model, Seagate ST3000VN000 on eBay and it's on its way to me.
I did try HDDrawcopy on the bad HDD but gave up after seeing a huge number of errors.
I have found some incomplete images from this model of NAS and have tried them on a 1TB drive. The NAS works but it's missing the data partition. There's fixes for that to create a new partition. But these images are also missing something that enables seeing the NAS OS version number and installing the OS updates. That page of the web GUI just shows an error. None of the three partial images I've found are the final update, or even the next to final update. Seagate still has the last two updates available to download. What would be nice is if they had a full NAS OS installer for this one, like they do for their other NAS models that are not the Personal Cloud line.
A 3TB drive from this NAS, with no user files, and clean reset, should produce a full image file that will RAR or 7Zip down to a couple of gigs. The incomplete images are compressed to about 1.5 gig archives. 900 or so gigs of empty partition should compress to almost nothing since it should be mostly zeroes.
I know there's Debian and other Linux ports for this but by all accounts I've seen, they're much slower than the native Seagate NAS OS because they don't have a hardware specific driver for accessing the NAS' hard drive.
I'm wanting to use this only as a DLNA server. I can disable all its functions except DLNA and SMB, that's all a DLNA server needs to present video and audio files to client devices that can play them using client side capabilities. Then SMB to mount it as a network drive on a Windows PC to push files to the server. For the Personal Cloud product line, since Seagate shut down their online service to remotely access files, being a local NAS, TimeMachine, and/or DLNA server is all they're good for.
I bought one off eBay, used, cheap. It arrived with the HDD bad, despite being "tested" and a wall wart different than pictured. It had also obviously been pried open. I got a refund and got to keep it.
Then I opened it to find the drive had been removed and replaced, the EMI shield tape was pulled loose. Most likely a previous owner attempted to recover data. I found an "open box" drive of the exact same model, Seagate ST3000VN000 on eBay and it's on its way to me.
I did try HDDrawcopy on the bad HDD but gave up after seeing a huge number of errors.
I have found some incomplete images from this model of NAS and have tried them on a 1TB drive. The NAS works but it's missing the data partition. There's fixes for that to create a new partition. But these images are also missing something that enables seeing the NAS OS version number and installing the OS updates. That page of the web GUI just shows an error. None of the three partial images I've found are the final update, or even the next to final update. Seagate still has the last two updates available to download. What would be nice is if they had a full NAS OS installer for this one, like they do for their other NAS models that are not the Personal Cloud line.
A 3TB drive from this NAS, with no user files, and clean reset, should produce a full image file that will RAR or 7Zip down to a couple of gigs. The incomplete images are compressed to about 1.5 gig archives. 900 or so gigs of empty partition should compress to almost nothing since it should be mostly zeroes.
I know there's Debian and other Linux ports for this but by all accounts I've seen, they're much slower than the native Seagate NAS OS because they don't have a hardware specific driver for accessing the NAS' hard drive.
I'm wanting to use this only as a DLNA server. I can disable all its functions except DLNA and SMB, that's all a DLNA server needs to present video and audio files to client devices that can play them using client side capabilities. Then SMB to mount it as a network drive on a Windows PC to push files to the server. For the Personal Cloud product line, since Seagate shut down their online service to remotely access files, being a local NAS, TimeMachine, and/or DLNA server is all they're good for.
