What good is a backup drive if you can’t extract the data back off it? There are many that are feeling that pain, I am finding out. I actually haven’t lost anything because a backup drive has failed yet (internal drives have failed, of course). I am now wondering about backups of backups! This came …
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Unthinkable (or at least Unwanted) happened!
A system drive failure (and the S.M.A.R.T. system gave no warning!) and it wasn’t wasn’t a simple drive. It was a RAID 0 [that is a zero, but looks like small ‘o’] set. Serious lesson learned – no system drives on RAID 0 again! How it happened: getting ready to go on trip to Prague/Vienna …
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