Well, Don't That Just Figure!

The #1 drive in our NAS went TU sometime last night. Other than age and use (about 6 years if I remember right) it was probably about time. Hoped it wouldn't but drives wear out.

And, did I have a total backup? (You would ask!) Well, No. Of course not. Oh, I have most of it "somewhere." Duplicates in "other places." And can (probably) rebuild/re-acquire the rest; but it'll still be a pain in the ass. Ripping entire seasons of tv shows (even if I have the dvd or blu ray's), then converting them to .mkv files is a pain. Repetitive.

The "Backup" Directory? Probably lost. Along with my EDU-Stuff directory where I keep all my hard science (Geology, Dinosaurs, Wx, National Parks in HD, and my courses from The Learning Company) shows. Probably about half the tv series that SWMBO watches.

The "Movies" Directory? Backed up. Along with the Google (pictures), Photo's (working), Music and most of the TV Shows. (Those that I like anyway ...)

IF the rebuild doesn't work.

Spent the last several hours rebooting the NAS and trying different non-destructive things to recover data. To no avail. And I'm a pretty smart fella about these things. NAS kept asking me if I wanted to reformat/rebuild the (supposedly) bad drive. NO. Not really. I just want to see why (why? why!) it's "bad." No sense rebuilding a possibly TU drive.

So, pop out bad (bad! Bad!) drive #1, pop in new 5TB drive (well, mostly new) and hit the rebuild function. In 3 to 5 days I'll know if it worked or not. (Two hours later and it just clicked over to 2% done. So, 5 days ...)

Meanwhile, me and Amazon will get together about some new drives to make those backups if/when able. I may just go ahead and build a new NAS with one of these spare Raspberry Pi's I have laying around. Might be fun!

SWMBO was watching the Avengers saga (in order) and is now stopped at Thor and WANTS THIS FIXED as soon as possible. (She might also be jonesing for Rab on JAG ...)

Put the bad (bad! Bad!) drive in my rshtech docking station and re-partitioned/reformatted it and it appears to be working fine. Using badblocks to surface test it. Had to change the default block size for it to work so I'm not sure the results will be accurate. But, it should be able to find bad surface if it's there.

We'll see.