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How to keep checks on a 14 TB external? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hey folks!

I have a WD easystore 14 TB External HDD connected to my Plex server (running on windows 11).

I am using about 4 TB of it, but not for anything truly important. It’s storing plex media mostly.

I’d like to use it for storing memories. But how do I trust it?

What are good tools for me to keep a check on the drive so that I can hopefully get enough warning when it starts losing sectors?

I have some tool installed based on recommendations online and I started a “surface test” of the disk and it said it’ll take a measly 300 hours. Not ideal.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm a sysadmin and daily, I use servers with many more disks with much more access, so obviously I'm a bit jaded about these things but still:

You can never ever trust a single disk. If you bought it recently it should be good for a while but one day it's going to fail on you and that data is either gone or you're paying $10k to have a professional pull the data off the platters if that data is worth that much to you.

If you're at that level, there are many offerings from NAS companies that would love your business to sell you a simple 2-disk raid NAS, or you could build your own and learn how that works!

[–] lowleveldata 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just raw dog RAID0 everything

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

i physically cringed

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything fails except old PATA disks. For some reason they tend to last forever.