Bad news and some good news

[sjmike]

Hi Guys,

I've got some bad news. I accidentally corrupted the RAID on my Network Attached Storage (NAS) device where I keep all my Metallica video collection while trying to upgrade one of the hard drives with larger capacity ones. I went to install the new hard drive that I ordered but it turned out to be defective, so I tried to pull it back out but for some reason it was jammed in there and not coming out. I wasn't thinking clearly and did a force shutdown of the NAS and took out another drive next to it so I could reach in and pull the stuck drive out. I guess since I didn't do a proper shutdown or me pulling out the other drive it caused the RAID to become corrupt, I could only afford to lose 1 drive, and I lost all my videos up until 2023. I have my 2024 videos and all my AVI copies, audio and other band shows on a separate device, so that's unaffected.

The good news is that I have a few different backups but only 1 nearly complete backup. I have an old NAS that has a lot of my collection from a few years ago that I can copy data from, I can fill in the gaps for DVDs from MEGA too. Then, thankfully I have a almost a full backup of my video collection on VisiGod's home server that he set up for me quite awhile back. I tried to keep that as an exact mirror of my collection. I use that server to help fulfill all of your requests.

Now I'm just waiting on my 3 new 16TB drives to arrive so I can start rebuilding. So it my be my turn to ask for your help in filling some requests.

[Arthuro]

Hi Mike, let me know if I can help. I'd be glad to.

[Aleister666]

Sad new mate, if need any from me just ask.

[alfredus]

Always a pain when these things happen - more than happy to help with whatever you need

[sjmike]

I've continued to have bad luck. All 3 of the new hard drives I ordered off eBay have been defective. Now I have to send them all back and purchase a new set of drives.

[sjmike]

Got another defective hard drive

I won't be buying any drives off eBay ever again.

[omitfyt]

Hi Mike, Im as crazy as you, and I have all gig/vidz od hdd's somewhere. I once told u, everything I have is yours. Ive been takin, now I'll be givin', no problem mate

[sjmike]

Finally an update.. I was able to recover from the RAID failure with seemingly no loss of data.

I gave up on getting any more hard drives off eBay since all of them were international versions and for whatever reason, they were defective no matter what system I plugged them into. Still working on getting my money back. Thankfully the supplier I got my original 2 drives from got another batch in stock and these actually work. Every-time I swap a drive, it takes 12 hours for the RAID to rebuild. So hopefully over the weekend I can finish swapping out the other 2 drives and then I'll have a lot more storage capacity. I'd go from 24 TB to 48 TB of storage.

Thanks to everyone who reached out and offered to help, I greatly appreciate it!