The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/suralya on 2025-07-23 15:55:03.
Hey everyone, so I could really use some support. been a long time lurker but havent really dipped my toes into any serious hoarding. but I had a pool of 7 drives ( a mix of internal and external )
|| || |ST2000DM008-2FR102|HDD|2.00 TB|1.82 TiB|Healthy|OK| |ST8000DM004-2U9188|HDD|8.00 TB|7.28 TiB|Healthy|OK| |SAMSUNG HD103UJ|HDD|1.00 TB|0.93 TiB|Healthy|OK| |WDC WD4001FAEX-0|HDD|4.00 TB|3.64 TiB|Healthy|OK| |OCZ-VERTEX3|SSD|120 GB|112 GiB|Healthy|OK| |CT2000T500SSD5|SSD|2.00 TB|1.82 TiB|Healthy|OK| |WDC WD20EZRX-22D8PB0|HDD|2.00 TB|1.82 TiB|Healthy|OK|
All of these were a mixture of ancient drives to new drives a few months old in the process of transferring data and consolidating. Most of my essential data is backed up on separate backup but I am absolutely gutted right now. Was tinkering around with the spaces, ended up duplicating the space names, corrupting the pool and losing the space. My dumb fault and ill mourn in time.
but how can I prevent that from happening again? how can I learn from my mistakes? I dont want to touch Windows Storage Spaces again. Ill invest in newer drives if I have to, and research DAS and raids and all that other stuff. im a sponge willing to absorb all the information I can. I am assuming all my data is gone and ill have to spend the next few weeks trying to recover what I can from the drives (im not formatting them or using them)
I know my thoughts are everywhere and I apologize but my dad taught me almost 40 years ago when you mess up, there is no shame asking for help. so please..help. im in Canada, im a broke disabled dad. but im down to learn.