The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Saint_The_Stig on 2024-07-23 21:57:39.
Long story short I got hit with a perfect storm at a bad time. My main NAS is full and I haven't had the spare cash to upgrade in a while. My D drive in my main PC (a 16TB WD Red Pro) is less than a year old but suddenly wasn't recognized in Windows.
I thought this was related to other issues I was working on in that PC. Problem was I was about to travel to see my family so instead of making a fresh backup right away I tried to get the drive back up to get some data I needed for the trip. I probably could have looked to get some key data off it in that time instead. I was able to get it to pop back up a few times before having no luck. Though I would say it was far from an exhaustive attempt given the limited time.
Anyway I'm about to head home and was wondering what my next steps would be. A lot of the data is backed up but it is not a recent one so attempting some recovery would be worth the time, especially with the down time I will have setting up and balancing a new upgraded NAS. Last it was connected all the data was there but the drive was failing to show in windows. So I think the data itself should be fine. I still need to try it on other systems, but that perfect storm involved me not having a good way to do that so I need to pick up a new drive caddy (why can't someone make an external drive carddy powered by USB C so I don't need one specific cord for it). Though I don't have high hopes.
I still need to do a check in the contents of the backup, but it might be worth to send the drive to get recovered, at least a quote. Being less than a year old (purchase) the drive should still be under warranty, but I don't want to send the drive in for a replacement if it means I can't try to recover data either by myself or through a service.
I also need to look at RAID of some sort on this PC so it's more resilient. Last I looked RAID for windows was recommended to use a hardware card but now I'm seeing software RAID being the answer. Can anyone point me to a good guide or something about good ways to set up drive arrays to ultimately use Windows these days.