On Thursday 10 September 2020 11:36:17 deloptes via tde-users wrote: > William Morder via tde-users wrote: > >> You can't mix boards. They must be the same make and model. > >> Perhaps you can buy just the board? Or a used working one? > >> > >> I've used both SG and WD and have had far more failures with WD. > >> I guess it depends on the models and how they are used? > >> I currently have nearly all SG drives in the "big machine" the server. > >> 12 drives in total with no failures over the last 10 years. > >> > >> Kate > > > > I always knew that, if Seagate somehow stays in business, then they must > > have some customers somewhere. You must be the one. > > Here it was 50:50 failure on the Seagate disks - some older disks/models > failed after 5-6y some kept running for 10+ andwere decommissioned. I did > some research may be 7y ago and started buying 2TB WD RED for NAS - was > recommended for RAID. They seem to be good. > > I think Kate means to move the magnetic disks from the failed driver to the > one that you know is working. Clearly you can not use different make/model. > But it is risky task. > > Did you try badblocks? > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Badblocks > > I intend to try all other avenues for data recovery, before I try performing surgery on the hard disk itself. That is a last option, I think. Once Kate explained it, I knew what she meant, and I don't imagine it's so hard in itself, just delicate and precise. But I imagine there are how-to pages and wikis out there for just this kind of thing, and I have a hardware toolkit. Bill _______________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
