Question: Hi Everybody,
I currently use internal hard drives as storage for projects as they are complete. I have a hot-swappable internal hard drive reader to copy files from my primary drive to a storage drive. This is the first time this has ever occurred, and I’m hoping I can reverse whatever happened.
After my computer was off, I inserted a new hard drive and turned the computer on. My computer mis-identified the inserted hard drive as a different storage hard drive and said it needed to check for errors. I saw that the drive was reading as the wrong number (I have them named by number) so I hoped by checking for errors it would fix itself. Well….I did the error check, and when I opened the hard drive on My Computer, half of the data is missing.
1 ) Is this data recoverable? If so, what would be the best procedure?
2) Is this a symptom of a failing hard drive?
3 ) How can I ensure this doesn’t happen again?
Please help!
Answer:For instance:
QNAP TS-451D2-2G 4 Bay – $390
https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TS-451D2-2G-Hardware-transcoding-Celeron/dp/B08JQZS1MZ
4x Toshiba 8TB – $175 each
https://www.amazon.com/Toshiba-Performance-Gaming-Internal-Drive/dp/B085RV9B1N
32TB space
QNAP TR-004 – $200
https://www.amazon.com/QNAP-TR-004-Enclosure-Attached-hardware/dp/B07K4RC7X9
4x Seagate 14TB – @$275 each
56TB backup space
Total – $2400
The QNAP OS can backup to the TR-004 on whatever schedule you desire, all automated.
Add another TR-004 and drives in a couple of years.
There are multiple other options and number of bays sizes for the NAS.