I have a custom-built (don't we all?) video-editing workstation. For
maximum editing performance, I use 1TB NVMe as my working drive. That
gets backed up daily to 8TB spinning platters, which gets backed up to
16TB of platters.
And, yes, the first hard drive failed, so I moved the second to be the
first, and bought a new disk to take the place of the second. No data lost.
The second drive failed 5 months after the "warranty." I thought it had
a 3 year warranty - turns out it's a 2 years data recovery service and a
1 year warranty. I did not go through that hassle - I just bought
another drive FROM ANOTHER MANUFACTURER, plugged it in and let the
backups run. Again, no data lost. BTW, never buying Seagate again.
Regards,
George Toft
On 7/4/2025 11:13 AM, Joseph Sinclair via PLUG-discuss wrote:
It's worth noting also, this drive should not hold the only copy of
anything.
As the old saying goes, "two is one and one is none". Every important
file should be in at least two, and preferably three or more, places.
Also, data on "consumer grade" external USB flash drives should,
generally, be copied to a new drive about every 3 years if you want to
be extra safe.
On 7/4/25 09:45, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
thanks... I'm not as scared now
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025 at 12:43 PM Ryan Petris via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
I've had NVME drives in usb enclosures disconnect under load; I
don't know
if it was because they weren't responding fast enough, or they shut
off due
to not being able to get enough power or due to heat. I've also had
some
SATA USB controllers for older drives not implement UAS properly and
would
disconnect because they weren't properly responding to commands.
If it's the later you could try disabling UAS; if that is the cause
you'll
loose a bit of speed but have a more reliable connection. I found this
article
<https://leo.leung.xyz/wiki/How_to_disable_USB_Attached_Storage_(UAS)>
which explains well how to disable it.
Also, you should be able to look in the journal to see why it
disconnected. `journalctl -b` will give you the current boot logs
and you
can page down to the time it disconnected to see what happened.
On Fri, Jul 4, 2025, at 8:56 AM, Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
I was looking for a picture on my backup media when the drive
disappeared
on thunar. That made me scared! I thought I lost all my pictures. I
unplugged it then reinserted it but still it was not present. I
switched
ports but still no good. I put it back the way I originally had it
and all
was good. Any ideas as to why this would happen?
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