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RN204 - an early tale of woe but with a happy ending (shaggy dog story with a strong message)
Ok, bit of a story but hopefully it's a heads up to others. I had some spare drives lying around so thought i'd pop those into an RN204 bought for the purpose. 3x 1TB drives and a single 500GB. Co...
djtaylor wrote:
- This is NOT your only back up solution
- Do make regular copies
- Don't delete your only original copy
- Establish an alternate back up
- DO use supported hardware, it avoids those awkward discussions about "but yeah it *should* be ok"
- Netgear Support may be able to help if you don't **bleep** around with it and make things worse
Solid advice, I agree on all points.
I'd add that not all disks are created equal (even if they are on the HCL). It's a good idea to google around (here and other sites) before purchasing. Generally staying with NAS-purposed disks or enterprise disks is a good idea.
Yes, thing is...none of the disks had failed and the one which *apparently* threw a wobbly was on the HCL so i'm curious as to what the issue is that caused it to lose the config.
Anyway, yes lesson learned, i've lectured enough people over the value data and particularly personal pictures and video and had my share of hard disk failures through my career but never lost anything of value to this scary moment. I shall replace the disks with 2TB NAS drives over the next few months, one at a time while maintaining local and cloud backups.
It was only because I was doing a mega shuffle of data that I had temporarily deleted the source folders and files before copying them all back in a tidier way. It was akin to driving along a straight, deserted road at night and then turning off the headlights for a few seconds except I crashed into the cloaked Klingon Bird of Prey. :)
The good news is the happy ending.
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