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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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Does windows volume mirroring suck or is my drive dying? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I recently got a 14TB re-certified HDD from ServerPartDeals

I planned to set it up to mirror my current 6 year old 2TB HDD, and use the remaining space for easy to replace data like steam games.

I set this up using Windows 10 Pro's Disk Management "Mirror volume"

A day or so after setting this up, Disk Management said there was a "Redundancy failure", and reactivating the mirror did not work. So I had to start over. And then today it did it again. It also said "Drive errors"

CrystalDiskInfo says theres no issues, and no reallocated sectors

So this time I set it up without the mirror. Is it possible that the mirror was causing the errors? Or should I go ahead and return the drive?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Check Windows event logs for drive I/O errors.