One of the hard drives in my new 2 slot NAS drive, that I bought in May this year, has failed. I am in the process of trying to get a replacement from the company it came from, but in the mean time I'm copying all the files from the remaining drive to a new hard drive delivered yesterday. The total data on this drive was just over 2.5TB. As you can see from the image it has a long way to go...and that's using ethernet 1GB. At the moment it's just copying the albums folder I have the singles and other stuff to do after that. I worry that the other the one I'm copying will fail now.
I'm just glad that it was set up as RAID.
QuoteRAID ("redundant array of inexpensive disks"[1] or "redundant array of independent disks"[2]) is a data storage virtualization technology that combines multiple physical disk drive components into one or more logical units for the purposes of data redundancy, performance improvement, or both.
It's the first time in years that I've had a hard drive fail and especially this early in it's life.
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Quote from: Dave on 21.12.2022, 08:35One of the hard drives in my new 2 slot NAS drive, that I bought in May this year, has failed.
My sympathy goes out to you mate :doh
This is why I have complete redundant systems for my Radio Station, it costs
a fortune to double everything but it helps me sleep a lot better a night.
:tiphat
Thanks BB.
I bought a new 6TB drive and copied everything to that as a temporary backup. If the other drive had failed I'd have lost everything.
So it's all safe now until they send the replacement drive under the warranty
Quote from: Dave on 22.12.2022, 17:59I bought a new 6TB drive and copied everything to that as a temporary backup.
6TB Woooooooooo = Expensive :whistle
It wasn't that expensive it was £142 from ebuyer
I'm glad I got it now as DPD, who are the delivery company for the sellers, are now on holiday till the new year.
This also works well for me as I'm now in Tunisia till next Friday.
Quote from: Dave on 23.12.2022, 16:51This also works well for me as I'm now in Tunisia till next Friday.
Tunisia = Fantastic :thumbsup
Enjoy the Christmas sunshine :sunny
I think my main HD is on the way out. :( I hope it lasts until I can get my tax refund. LOL
Quote from: Skhilled on 31.12.2022, 09:48I think my main HD is on the way out. :( I hope it lasts until I can get my tax refund. LOL
Oh dear that doesn't sound good. Now I'm back home I have sorted the delivery exchange for the damaged drive, which hopefully will come on Tuesday.
I've now also ordered a USB type C dual hard drive dock too as the old one I have is a bit slower than the new type c ones.
I guess I'll just have to wait and see if it holds out. I think I have a backup drive installed with an older version of linux installed on it. I'll have to check and try to reformat it for windows to temporarily use it until I can upgrade.