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NAS Drive question - Buffalo Linkstation Duo (correct forum!)

  • January 17, 2026
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 Hi All - I think I posted this originally in the wrong forum!

Can anyone help with this though its not strictly related to Sonos issues?

I have an old Buffalo Linkstation Duo that registered a disc failure so I replaced the disc and the other one failed. So I replaced that one and within a few days it registered a failure on the first brand new one!

Im assuming that is a power issue or a fault with the chassis rather than the discs as they are brand new.

So my question is if I kept the discs (assuming they are fine which they should be as they are brand new) and just switched them into a replacement chassis - an identical one ie a Buffallo Linkstation Duo - is it as simple as that?

Would my PC and everything simply pick up the NAS drive as usual? Or is it more complex than that?

Any help much appreciated.

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Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • January 17, 2026

Unless the NAS box actually damaged the drive, rare but possible, you should be able to recover them.

I'd start by doing a fresh, repartition and then a full format in another computer, Linux if possible so you can match the NAS' expected format.

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  • PhilJW
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  • January 17, 2026

Hi

 

Thanks - but the question was can I just switch the box (if they are identical boxes) and not have to reformat the drives or set everything up again?

 

Rather than trying to recover the data.

 

Cheers

Stanley_4
  • Stanley_4
  • Lead Maestro
  • January 17, 2026

Don't know anything, nor did I post anything about data recovery. Not sure why you mentioned it, were you thinking when I said "recover them" I was talking about data and not the drives? Nope, recover the drives so they are safe to use versus buy another one.

You could just switch the drives, you may get a rude surprise later if there is an error on the drive the NAS doesn't pick up at boot time and force a reformat to clear it before mounting the drive, you could get lucky. I've seen too many systems that assume any disk showing a partition table and the beginning of a supported file system is good, they save internal error detection/correction for data they have written.

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