What to Do When Your Unraid Server Hardware Fails
Recover an Unraid server after a hardware failure. Verify disk serial numbers, preserve parity and pool assignments, and recover a failed boot device safely.
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Category: Back Up / Storage
What to Do When Your Hard Drive Warranty Replacement Is Out of Stock
If your warranty replacement is out of stock, ask support for a ship estimate and an equivalent drive they can send now. Then decide how long your storage can safely wait. If a failed disk has left your NAS with reduced redundancy, check that your backups are usable and make a plan to replace the disk while the warranty claim is open. Ask what support can ship and when Have your claim number, drive model and capacity, serial number, and tracking handy. If you’ve already sent the drive, confirm support has logged it as received. Then ask these three questions:
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How Do You Keep Off-Site Backups Safe? A Community Guide
A Home Server Show flashback sparked by Kevin Schoonover: what actually makes an off-site backup safe? We’re collecting real-world strategies for protecting backup copies from fire, theft, hardware failure, loss and location-wide disasters.
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HDD vs SSD for Backup: Which Should You Use?
HDD or SSD for backup? Compare capacity, speed, portability, cost and restore performance to decide which storage type fits your backup strategy.
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CMR vs SMR Hard Drives: Which Should You Buy for NAS, Backup and Storage?
CMR or SMR? Learn which hard-drive recording technology makes sense for NAS, RAID, backups and bulk storage, why exact model numbers matter, and when SMR is actually a reasonable choice.
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Backblaze Hard Drive Reliability: What Years of Drive Data Really Tell Home Users
Backblaze publishes one of the most useful public datasets in storage: daily health records from hundreds of thousands of drives running in its data centers. I wanted to know what that data actually tells a home user shopping for backup, NAS or bulk-storage drives, so I pulled the public Drive Stats data into my own deterministic analysis instead of relying on a single quarter or a few headline numbers. Quick answer: Backblaze data is extremely useful, but it does not support a simple conclusion like “Brand X is best.” The better lesson is that specific drive models, capacity generations, age,
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