Lee Crump wrote: ↑28 Jul 2021, 02:32
I am having a very similar problem. My 3 month old F4-210 would not power on and TerraMaster promptly sent me a replacement (thank you). However the replacement device now wants to initialize the disks with my data on them.
i think the issue maybe because TM use your hard drive to install the OS from so the hard drive is a boot drive, whereas other manufacturers treat the hard drives as data drives and have their own area they run the OS from so in those instances so you are free to swap them around and rebuild raid arrays because the OS isnt changing
but to TM if it doesnt recognise the hard drive then it believes its a brand new drive to install the OS onto (from a usb drive inside), im guessing these hard drives are now tied to the unit they were initialised in some how so you cant just pull them and put them in another unit without it saying hang on it hasnt been set up on this device before lets wipe the entire hard drive
its a poor design in my eyes, the hard drives that users put in the NAS drive should just be data drives, definitely have a USB backup of all your data that should atleast give you some confidence (also the USB drive can be NTFS so in a disaster recovery situation you could just plug it into a windows computer and copy the data off it) whereas the drives inside the units cant be NTFS