I thought I should provide the conclusion of the Terastation story. I did finally receive and install the new WD 500GB hard disk, but sadly the RAID rebuild did not preserve my data. I am still wondering if there was something I could have done differently to preserve the redundant data – if I had
When Disks Crash…
There are many things to discuss on the subject of maintaining your aging digital zoo, but I will share about some recent struggles with aging data storage. It’s just a fact of computer operations that hard disks crash. I have associates who work in large datacenters and they forecast disk replacements by the month –