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Are Western Digital disks the worst, or is it just me?
I have had a ReadyNAS (RAID 10) for years. One disk failed, I purchased a spare and during rebuilt, a 2nd. one failed. Now I am not sure whether it is worth sending the disks to NETGEAR for recover...
vandermerwe wrote: You have needed to use data recovery services twice?
Yes. Once, back in Boston in 1992. The most recent in Texas, in 2008. They were Unix/Linux on Dell servers, didn't even know about NETGEAR at the time.
Twice in my long and illustrious career.
This would be the 3rd. time. The fundamental problem is that the 4 disks are identical from factory, mirrored, and therefore they decided (conspired) to fail within a week of difference.
I am beginning to suspect that it is best to order the 4 disks separate, from different distributor, etc.
TIA
Note: The 2nd event above (2008) was not even a failure. Some files were wholesale removed by an improperly implemented "remove" command. The disks were physically in perfect shape. The recovery company opened them, damaged the checksums in such a way that only they could recover the data and attempted extortion.
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