[Drive pool just destroyed years of data and formatted over 14TB!]

2 hours ago, gtaus said:

It's terrible to lose data. Having said that, I don't follow what your situation is. I have never had any data lost from adding a HDD to DrivePool. 

Is it your Drive D that you believe was formatted? That's the only drive that appears to have no data.

On the top left corner of the Pie Chart DrivePool main page, you have 3 messages logged. You might want to click on that small pie chart and read what DrivePool has logged. Sometimes that gives you clues.

Is there a reason you added your Drive C to your DrivePool? I know it's possible to add Drive C to DrivePool, but I personally never use my Drive C for any pools. I try to keep that Drive C from outside storage programs.

As far as trusting DrivePool, well, it works better for me than my old hardware RAID setups, or when I used Windows Storage Spaces. I had massive data loses with a single HDD failure in both those other systems. In fact, even though I had triple redundancy on my Windows Storage Spaces, I had a single HDD failure and it destroyed my entire Storage Space volume. That was not supposed to happen.

I switched over to DrivePool a couple years ago. I have had HDD failures using DrivePool, but it only affects the data on the failed HDD. Many times, I was able to physically remove the drive, plug it into a desktop caddy, and transfer almost all the data off that failing HDD. 

DrivePool is not a backup plan, but you can turn on duplication for the entire pool, or specific folders. In theory, that should allow you to rebuild your data faster when you add a new drive to the pool after a HDD failure. I find that useful for some data. Mostly, my DrivePool is used as my Home Media Server and I have all my data backed up on HDDs sitting in my closet. I mostly trust DrivePool to handle my server data, but like anything with computers, you really need to have a good backup plan to ensure no data loss if you have HDD failures. After running DrivePool for a couple of years, I only have single copies of media data on my DrivePool Home Media Server. If I lose a pool HDD, then I'll rebuild from my backup HDDs if still needed. 

So thank you! 

 

I did try to add my storage spaces pool to the drive pool when this happened. I know Microsoft sucks and it's also partially their fault and mine for not having redundancy but I truly can't afford redundancy yet. I'm saving for a whole server rework via unraid with redundancy by the end of this year but it will be a few thousand $ at least. I'm pretty amateur but I've already begun trying to find what I've lost and require it. I have CSV files of the content so I'm trying to make it work with radarr and sonarr to reaquire everything. I'm just struggling to make those excel docs with my stuff readable by those. If anyone knows of an automatic process to translate either text or excel files to a program that will allow me to reaquire please DM me. 

 

I tried a data recovery tool and that failed hard considering its striped across a bunch of disks lol.

 

 

[Drive pool just destroyed years of data and formatted over 14TB!]

Drive pool just destroyed years and years of data, I had 14TBs of data that is now gone! All I did was try to add a drive to my array and poof, everything is gone and looks like the drives formatted!

 

Can someone please help me. I cant use a restore point for that much data and i dont have file protection for the same reason. 

 

I trusted this product with my data and they just burned me.