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I think I'm gonna give up on having a pool. Maybe a computer. I was trying to clear that 18 TB Exos out using diskpart. This Exos has the label of ST1800NM. Another 20 GB Exos that I had bought a few months ago has the label ST2000NM. I was tired, bleary-eyed, more than a little frustrated with all these problems, wasn't thinking 100% straight, and selected the ST2000NM in diskpart, and cleaned it. Problem is this drive had gigabytes of data that was critical to the pool. GIGABYTES. I still can't believe I made such a simple, rookie, and yet devastating mistake. My God. I don't know if any of the file table can be salvaged, as I just did a simple "clean" and not a "clean all", but I've got a recovery request into Rossmann Repair Group to see if they can do anything with it. I know there are some tools in the wild that I could probably run myself on the drive, but I don't trust myself to do much of anything atm. I should never have thrown money at an AM5 system. I also probably should've stayed away from the Sabrent and anything like it. Instead, I should've done what any sane person would've done and assembled a proven AM4 or Intel platform in a full tower and attached the drives directly to the motherboard. Yeah, the cable management would've been a nightmare, but literally anything would be better than this. My goal of staving-off obsolescence as much as possible has instead kicked me in the teeth while I was already lying prone in a ditch. If, by some miracle, Rossmann is able to recover the data, I'm going to take a long and hard look at my PC building strategy. Hell, maybe I'll throw money at a prebuilt or one of those cute HDMI-enabled NUCs that're all the rage. I just know that I'm exhausted and am done with all of this, at least for the time being.