As some of you know, I haven’t had the best luck ever at trying to keep my music collection on the same hard drive for a long period of time. The drives seem to crash, and I lose all my music. A couple years ago, Ispent a day and backed up the then current collection to a whole bunch of DVD’s so I at least wouldn’t lose all of my music. Now, since I’m married, and my wife takes a whole lot of pictures, it becomes even more important that I don’t lose all this precious(my precious..you were thinking it, don’t deny it) data. The WHS was supposed to centralize where we store all of our data and keep it safe from failure….or so I thought.
For the past 2 weeks I have been going home for lunch to try and figure out why my 2 – 1 TB Seagate Hard drives(which I got in February) have been not showing up in WHS. At first I thought it might be that they needed the infamous firmware update to fix them. Upon further inspection, and the firmware update not working, the drives have the latest firmware that the problem does not effect. So then I decided that I had better run SeaTools on the drives so I could tell Seagate support what was wrong with the drives to speed up the replacement process. So Today at noon I managed to get this done, with one of the drives reporting 1 error and the other reporting 2 errors. I fixed all the errors on the drives and re-plugged everything back in. I had scheduled a Windows Checkdisk so i let that run, and it also found a few errors and fixed them. Low and behold the thing booted up fine, sort of. After I got it up and running, it said there was some file problems with 3 files. I moved the files to different locations and rebooted, now everything is working fine…for now.
Next plan of action…backup all data to a drive that i know is good and put it somewhere safe in case failure of those 2 drives happens(which i think will happen, due to the current sound produced by the drives when first starting up the server).
The other thing that needs to happen is i need to put Windows XP on a hard drive so I can update the bios on the dell, since it is really really old, and i can not get it to run on WHS which is Server 2003.
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April 21st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
Are you at least running with file duplication turned on?
Of course, if you have two crappy drives, that may not save you… but it’s at least a start.
April 21st, 2009 at 7:23 pm
Yea, i have file duplication turned on for all the important stuff, but yea, if both drives fail, it doesn’t do me any good
April 21st, 2009 at 10:35 pm
This is why I’m considering the WD 1tb over the Seagate 1.5 tb right now =/