Post by bpg on Sept 21, 2022 13:29:09 GMT
I must be the luckiest so-and-so on the planet with IT right now.
After having a couple of WD NAS Storage boxes which died on me at various times I thought get a proper NAS server with hotswap drive capability. Installed and forgot about it until a few months ago.
I thought two bays, if one drive fails, swap it out carry on, all bases covered. Haha, not quite.
It never occurred to me the MoBo could die.
Took the drives out and tried to mount via a caddy to Windows and Linux, not having it, the drives being configured as a Raid 1 mirrored volume would not mount to either OS.
Contacted the vendor of the unit about a new MoBo then I questioned why do a want to repair a device with a known MoBo weakness ? Contacted the vendor and they have a migration path, which NAS servers allow old disks to carry on where they left off in a new NAS server.
I was skeptical, new NAS server arrived, plugged one drive in should the server decide to reformat and powered up with everything crossed. It worked and I am one very relieved individual. All our digital photos and videos from when the little ones were little plus photos of my Mum were all on there.
Lesson learned. Separate drive bought, everything now backed up in triplicate.
I know the cloud is out there just for this kind of thing. I still don't like "my" data being out there where I feel as though I can't control it. I get the theory of GCP being to provide the hardware while the user controls the access but I still don't trust it.
After having a couple of WD NAS Storage boxes which died on me at various times I thought get a proper NAS server with hotswap drive capability. Installed and forgot about it until a few months ago.
I thought two bays, if one drive fails, swap it out carry on, all bases covered. Haha, not quite.
It never occurred to me the MoBo could die.
Took the drives out and tried to mount via a caddy to Windows and Linux, not having it, the drives being configured as a Raid 1 mirrored volume would not mount to either OS.
Contacted the vendor of the unit about a new MoBo then I questioned why do a want to repair a device with a known MoBo weakness ? Contacted the vendor and they have a migration path, which NAS servers allow old disks to carry on where they left off in a new NAS server.
I was skeptical, new NAS server arrived, plugged one drive in should the server decide to reformat and powered up with everything crossed. It worked and I am one very relieved individual. All our digital photos and videos from when the little ones were little plus photos of my Mum were all on there.
Lesson learned. Separate drive bought, everything now backed up in triplicate.
I know the cloud is out there just for this kind of thing. I still don't like "my" data being out there where I feel as though I can't control it. I get the theory of GCP being to provide the hardware while the user controls the access but I still don't trust it.