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Everything wasn't duplicated, but it will be soon. I bought a 2TB drive at BestBuy last night to replace the failing one. The 2TB that failed is under warranty, so I'm exchanging it for a new one, and I ordered two additional 2TB drives as well. I'm going to set everything up to be duplicated 2x, and some things (family photos) to be duplicated 3x. The important stuff is also backed up using CrashPlan both on and off-site. In addition, family photos are stored on Flickr and Smugmug, and protected with RAR files with 2% recovery and those are protected with disParity. As for how it failed, I'm not sure, but it happened suddenly. The drive wants to be formatted when Windows recognizes it, and sometimes message box shows up complaining about CRC errors. The only data it could have held that I didn't have setup for duplication was tv shows and/or movies, and those I can re-rip since I own them. It will just be a pain to determine what movies or show episodes are now missing. That's why I had that data set not to be duplicated. It'll be a pain, but not catastrophic.

Yes, it's eSATA. The drive has failed. I'm running recovery software on it now just to find out what was there. All important data I can duplicated and backed up, but I'd still like to find out what I'm now missing. Serial numbers are a tad difficult to get to for internally mounted drives though. I just need to physically label them once and be done with it I suppose.

I just got bit by this exact same thing. A drive died, I didn't have all data set to at least 2x duplication, and I have no idea what I lost. I know I didn't lose anything too critical, but the fact that I don't know what I lost is concerning. It isn't the fault of DrivePool, but if DrivePool isn't going to at least be able to report what was lost, I guess I'll have to come up with something. It would be nice if that were a DrivePool feature though. I am curious though, as to why Scanner didn't report anything ahead of time.

I've gotten this message a few times, and am just curious, when it happens, what should I do? I'm still testing DrivePool out, and I love the concept, but just want to make sure things work the way I expect before purchasing it and "moving to production" with it. So, ignoring for the moment "why" it happens, when it happens, should I reboot, or disconnect/reconnect the drive, or what? Also, when it says "ST2000DM 001-1CH164 SCSI Disk Device (S/N: --------) 34°C - 1.82 TB (Pool: DrivePool (R:\))" is missing, what's the recommended way of me determining which physical disk that is given that I have several in a drive bay, two or three externals, and an internal drive or two? Thanks for your time