Another One Bites the Dust

[billroper]

Today, I finally became cognizant of the blinking light on my NAS. It turns out this means that one of the old small mirrored drives has died.

I backed the contents of the remaining drive of the pair off to the larger drive in the box and have ordered two more large drives that should arrive on Tuesday.

*sigh*

Redundancy is a good thing.

Comments

Every time I lose a hard drive...

[kyril.livejournal.com]

even when it's still under warranty, by the time the replacement arrives I've had to do without it so long that I've bought a new drive anyway. (Then again, 3-year or shorter hard drive warranties are a relatively new thing for me...) Most of my drives get too small to use before they die, it seems.

My current storage box has 3x 3 TB WD Red drives, in RAID Z1 (very similar to RAID 5, plus a partitioning system, plus a few other things). My previous was a single 2 TB drive, and I just couldn't see spending the money and getting only 50% more storage out of it...

[kizoku42.livejournal.com]

Glad you noticed it.

[whl.livejournal.com]

I had a 2 TB Western Digital Green start to go on me (it would read old stuff, but new stuff showed errors); just under 3 years old, so still under warranty.

I've already replaced it (with a WD Black, we'll see if those are better), but I sent the old one back for replacement anyway. There's another drive in the set of about the same age, so I can at least use the replacement as an offline backup of that.