Way back in the day (like 4 years ago), I decided a NAS would be a good addition to my gadget collection to handle my issue of too many photos, and not enough space to keep them all.
I got a SANS Digital TR4UT-B 4 Bay enclosures and 2 3TB Seagates set up in a RAID 1 since I was more concerned about data integrity than speed.
Then about 6 months later we moved, and our new place didn't have enough room for me to set it up again. So the unit sat on a shelf for about 3 years until I dusted it off last week. I tried firing it up, but the indicator lights are showing that both the drives have failed. First question, how likely is that? considering that they were only in use for only about 6 months? Second question, is there anything I can do to try and recover the drives/data? I'm not positive what's on the drives, but I'd like to find a way to take a look and make sure nothing critical is lost. Final question, how can I tell if the issue is a software/data corruption problem or a physical problem with the drives (i.e. if I wipe the drives, will they be good to use as reasonably fresh drives)?
Thanks!