Day: July 17, 2020

Right at the moment it’s sitting on a shelf with a printer perched precariously over it.

It’s not going to stay in this position long but right now accessibility is more important than final location. Based on the temperature the thing runs at it may end up in the proper network closet. The drives currently in there run really hot when they’re in use.

For the time being, though, I’m putting it through its paces and moving all the undamaged data off the other drives to this machine.

Thus far, I’ve discovered a ton of damaged files, so this is more about recovering data than just transferring data.

After provisioning the 20TB raid was whittled down to about 16TB. Which is still way more than I had in the first place. I’ve been enabling features such as built in antivirus, media services, backups and a bunch of user tools. I’m probably only going to keep the things that actually get used. Right now I’m choosing things that I think are most likely to be used.

I gotta say the Backups are blindingly fast. Provided the speed holds up, I’ll probably retire the backups on the TimeCapsules and go just to the Synology, and a small Thunderbolt connected drive here on the desk. As nice as network backups are, I’ve learned not to put all my eggs in one basket. Losing data is a pain in the butt.

In all I’ve sacrificed about 3 days to data integrity and figuring out whats been damaged and what’s still viable. My thought is to leave the existing drives alone for the next month or two just in case there’s something that I’ve missed. But after that, I’m going to try to reformat them to see if it was the drive that died or just data corruption.

Depending on the results, I may retire the old drives to Archive Status. Just putting stuff on them that should have a redundant copy someplace.