I just had 3 of my 4 spinning rust array die in a move. I no longer recommend hdd for anything but archival.
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Ya, only 3 years old WD reds too. I was livid
Damn, the one I had to replace was a WD also. But it was about as “consumer grade” as it gets. Not a Red.
Did you use movers? Did the box get launched out of a truck or something? 😆😬
Only a 20 mile uhaul trip! My own fault since I know the proper way would’ve been to remove & store properly in shockproof casing, but still, I thought it’d be fine.
Damn suspension 😒
Jesus 😅
Backups! Backups! Backups!
https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/data_backup_options.pdf
Ouch. That hurts. We’ve been moving to ZFS raid + encrypted s3 backup. I get chills thinking about something like that happening.
It was raidz1, so I couldn’t be fancy with multiple disk tolerance 🙃
Im considering moving the new array to raidz3, but I want to add mixed models first.
I took down my backblaze backup down years ago & am living life on the edge with a single copy on a WD Pro I had bought just a few weeks before. Bricks were shat during discovery 😅