Hard Drive Woes--220GB Worth Of Data Vanished??? Help!!!

[John Doe]

Incidentally, I don't know what kind of data you could possibly
have that takes a full 17 hard drives to store. I've been in
this game for over 20 years

What game is that?

and can't imagine what you could be storing.

I can't imagine why anyone here would care.

I think it's time for a heads up and a re-evaluation of just
what it is you're doing with your computer. I can't believe
this is a mission critical computer. If it were, you'd be
running RAID 1 on everything. If it's not, I believe you are a
junk collector. Maybe it's time to get serious about getting
rid of all the garbage.

What on earth are you talking about.

Remember; the more hard drives you have, the more chance you
have of a problem with them. 17 hard drives is crazy by
anyone's standard.

They are not all in the same system. Perhaps you should read
before you start flailing.

 

[lungnut2002]

Digital Video is 13GB per hour. I'm a video editor and I keep all of my
past raw footage to access later in case I need to revisit a job for
whatever reason. I've thought that to be prudent, but obviously it
wasn't prudent enough.

The drives in question held a combined 440GB worth of music and sound
f/x files. Critical stuff for me.

If you thought 17 hard drives is crazy, I have a friend who does
wedding video stuff who has well over 200.

 

[lungnut2002]

Yes, a RAID controller, and, yes, the drives were on the same IDE
channel.

Is that where I fumbled?

The literature for the controller led me to believe that using their
controller was just another way for me to be able to add IDE drives to
my system. It had worked for close to a year, until as I've said, one
drive started to fail and then chkdsk reared its head on the other one.

 

[Mxsmanic]

Digital Video is 13GB per hour. I'm a video editor and I keep all of my
past raw footage to access later in case I need to revisit a job for
whatever reason. I've thought that to be prudent, but obviously it
wasn't prudent enough.

Make backups.

The drives in question held a combined 440GB worth of music and sound
f/x files. Critical stuff for me.

Not critical enough to back up, apparently.

If you thought 17 hard drives is crazy, I have a friend who does
wedding video stuff who has well over 200.

Has he backed them all up?

 

[spodosaurus]

Yes, a RAID controller, and, yes, the drives were on the same IDE
channel.

Is that where I fumbled?

Yes, quite possibly. When you did ANYTHING to the 'bad' disk, it did the
same things to the 'good' disk. Also, when you have two mirrored drives
(assumption on your RAID level here on my part) on the same IDE channel
and one goes, you not uncommonly get serious data problems on the other.
I've recently reconfigured my file server based on this (using linux
software RAID, but the principle is the same) so that all my mirrored
drives are on their own channels.

The literature for the controller led me to believe that using their
controller was just another way for me to be able to add IDE drives to
my system. It had worked for close to a year, until as I've said, one
drive started to fail and then chkdsk reared its head on the other one.

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