10 Sep
2020
10 Sep
'20
7:28 p.m.
On Thursday 10 September 2020 11:36:17 deloptes via tde-users wrote:
William Morder via tde-users wrote:
Here it was 50:50 failure on the Seagate disks - some older disks/models
failed after 5-6y some kept running for 10+ andwere decommissioned. I did
some research may be 7y ago and started buying 2TB WD RED for NAS - was
recommended for RAID. They seem to be good.
I think Kate means to move the magnetic disks from the failed driver to the
one that you know is working. Clearly you can not use different make/model.
But it is risky task.
Did you try badblocks?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Badblocks
I intend to try all other avenues for data recovery, before I try performing
surgery on the hard disk itself. That is a last option, I think.
Once Kate explained it, I knew what she meant, and I don't imagine it's so
hard in itself, just delicate and precise. But I imagine there are how-to
pages and wikis out there for just this kind of thing, and I have a hardware
toolkit.
Bill
You
can't mix boards. They must be the same make and model.
Perhaps you can buy just the board? Or a used working one?
I've used both SG and WD and have had far more failures with WD.
I guess it depends on the models and how they are used?
I currently have nearly all SG drives in the "big machine" the server.
12 drives in total with no failures over the last 10 years.
Kate
I always knew that, if Seagate somehow stays in business, then they must
have some customers somewhere. You must be the one.