Data Recovery and Disk Utilities Forum @R-TT

Alt wrote:I don't think the heads will cure themselves in the course of time.

Wouldn't it be nice if they did though? But to be clear, I meant hold on to it for a bit before deciding whether to do the head swap with the blank donor drive that I do have.

The failed drive was a 3TB with 700GB used. It would spin up, make a few rather awful sounds (seems like head seek errors), then stop - can't be recognized in BIOS, much less in an OS. I do have a matching possible donor drive that is blank - but I'm not sure it's worth paying someone to do the ...

Hi Alt - thanks very much for your input. I didn't know WSS worked like that. When I originally set up and created the WSS pool in question I actually added drives sequentially - (the drives were all in a WHSv2 system previously). So I started with 2 empty drives in the WSS pool, then I dumped all ...

Hi, first of all thank you for your reply. Your first question is also my first question...

I do not know how a Microsoft Simple Storage Space is implemented. When I originally set it up (it's just a home server to store non-critical media) I ignorantly assumed it was similar to JBOD or WHSv1 drive ...

I have a question regarding some problems I'm having recovering data from a large simple storage space with one failed physical drive.

Here's the scenario: I have a Storage Spaces storage pool that is made up of 10+ physical disks and is 23TB used of 36TB actual size. The total pool hosts two ...