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ReadyNAS 314 - a year of hell and now lost 10years of data!
I bought a ReadyNAS 314 when they were new in the market back in April 2013. I bought it partly because I wanted to safeguard my increasing data storage with redundancy in case of disk failure, and al...
Yup, I had five out of six 1TB Seagate nearline drives in a RAID5 die in under a year. The last time two died almost simultaneously, taking the array with it. This was a Dell server with next-day business support so replacements were always swift, but you cannot guarantee that the hardware actually functions...
It's easy to say "well you should have everything backed up" but for a small home-user that's not doable with multi-terabyte arrays. 9TB array, where should I back that up? The only possible thing is another identical array and now we're talking serious money... so in reality, we will have to prioritize data, backing up the important structures and hoping for the best for the rest of them. And in "hoping for the best" is, unfortunately, a certain amount of trust in hardware manufacturers... :-/
It's easy to say "well you should have everything backed up" but for a small home-user that's not doable with multi-terabyte arrays. 9TB array, where should I back that up? The only possible thing is another identical array and now we're talking serious money... so in reality, we will have to prioritize data, backing up the important structures and hoping for the best for the rest of them. And in "hoping for the best" is, unfortunately, a certain amount of trust in hardware manufacturers... :-/
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