So I've had scanner + drivepool running in my WHS 2011 box for 3 or so years. I recently purchased an 8TB RED to replace on of my 2TB RED drives.
I properly shut the box down, replaced the 2TB with the 8TB and placed the 2TB in an external USB enclosure. I added the 8TB disk to the pool and then tried to have drivepool remove the 2TB drive. I kept getting errors when trying to remove the drive so I decided to see if I could save the data by going into the drive and manually copying the contents. This took almost a day to get about 1.6GB of data and when I looked at what was copied I noticed that it was all corrupted (video which was unplayable or with crazy artifacts, pictures that were corrupted, music that sounded distorted, doc files that were unable to be opened). Luckily I had crashplan backing up the stuff I couldn't replace so the loss wasn't monumental.
My question is why did scanner not flag this drive as bad? I've had drives in the past report as "about to fail" and I was able to replace them in time but this drive went from "almost unreadable" to "will no longer recognize" without warning. The scanner said it had scanned the drive a few weeks prior,
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So I've had scanner + drivepool running in my WHS 2011 box for 3 or so years. I recently purchased an 8TB RED to replace on of my 2TB RED drives.
I properly shut the box down, replaced the 2TB with the 8TB and placed the 2TB in an external USB enclosure. I added the 8TB disk to the pool and then tried to have drivepool remove the 2TB drive. I kept getting errors when trying to remove the drive so I decided to see if I could save the data by going into the drive and manually copying the contents. This took almost a day to get about 1.6GB of data and when I looked at what was copied I noticed that it was all corrupted (video which was unplayable or with crazy artifacts, pictures that were corrupted, music that sounded distorted, doc files that were unable to be opened). Luckily I had crashplan backing up the stuff I couldn't replace so the loss wasn't monumental.
My question is why did scanner not flag this drive as bad? I've had drives in the past report as "about to fail" and I was able to replace them in time but this drive went from "almost unreadable" to "will no longer recognize" without warning. The scanner said it had scanned the drive a few weeks prior,
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