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Dr. Hax 2y ago

JFC, I am just having absolute 💩 luck with hardware. I believe my ONLY BACKUP drive of my desktop just died just now.

I moved the USB cable while the drive was in use and it went into reald-only mode and then couldn't be read again using 4 different USB cables, different USB ports/controllers, and two different computers running different operating systems.

It's like.. you can't make this stuff up.

Right now I am in emergency mode to get this fixed ASAP. It is absolutely NOT okay with me to go without backups, like at all. And I felt that way 3 weeks ago before my motherboard blew, my M.2 drive wouldn't boot, and my backup drive failed.

Current status:

- having a friend sanity check my "drive dead" diagnosis

- dug out an old 3.5" SATA drive, enclosure and power supply and am backing up to that right now

Next steps:

- possibly try different enclosure with my old backup drive in case it's actually "bad enclosure"

- repeat my 3.5" SATA trick to another drive to ensure I have a second backup because I do not trust the drive I pulled out of the box o' hard drives to be reliable for any length of time

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

And now we've moved on to the phase where I try to get the old hard drive put of the case (which looks extremely hard based on what I saw on ifixit).

I checked and the drive is out of warranty.

My scavanged backup drive theoretically has a backup of my data and is now being checked for integrety. If that passes, I'll breathe a big sigh of relief.

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

😮‍💨 New backup passed the integrity checks.

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Dr. Hax 2y ago

Got the old drive out of the enclosure and my other enclosure acts like there's no drive there. I can feel the disk spin up, but it doesn't even attempt to register anything on the computer side. Could be a 4TB limit thing. The 3.5" drive I took out was 3TB.

The closest configuration I have to working with the old drive is in the old enclosure and it doesn't see a partition table, fdisk tells me /dev/xvdi isn't there (ls disagrees), and Qubes can't parse the partition table.