Hi all,
While the usual practice is to trash (pre-)failing external USB-powered drives, I tend to like to keep them as additional backup storage (like a 3rd copy) and some served me surprisingly well over the years.
- First, I simply copied the data in there and leave it be.
- Then I wondered how to make the thing more robust and I used checksums over the whole content which were periodically ran in order to ensure integrity
- Now, I'd like to know if you had other suggestions on how to store data in risky situations such as failing or pre-failing drives? Ideally, I'd like to be able to have a way to check integrity or maybe have self-healing ability (I looked into Multipar PAR2 but there're too many files to do so) inside the drive itself
Thank you for your inputs.