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How to keep checks on a 14 TB external? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by damnthefilibuster@lemmy.world to c/pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
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Hey folks!

I have a WD easystore 14 TB External HDD connected to my Plex server (running on windows 11).

I am using about 4 TB of it, but not for anything truly important. It’s storing plex media mostly.

I’d like to use it for storing memories. But how do I trust it?

What are good tools for me to keep a check on the drive so that I can hopefully get enough warning when it starts losing sectors?

I have some tool installed based on recommendations online and I started a “surface test” of the disk and it said it’ll take a measly 300 hours. Not ideal.

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[–] finthechat@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago (4 children)

So, related question for the other people in the comments section here, what's the best method for copying all your data to other drives? Surely it's not just copy, paste, then wait?

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Robocopy on Windows. RSync on Linux.

These are quick and dirty but work and can pickup where you left off on failure.

[–] Atemu@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

It's quite complex but I use git-annex for this purpose.

[–] IHawkMike@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] AceBonobo@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Seems risky, I had really bad experiences with windows software RAID so I'm not sure I would trust such a solution.