AHCI Fail

[ZERO]

Yea I turned it on and it formatted my HDD, now all the data between now and December is gone (on my tv computer). It is going to take all day to re-update everything. I guess I should configure windows to auto copy itself to my big computer ever week and I can avoid this... :headache:

[CYBER]

THAT SUCKS MAN.
what did u end up loosing exactly? server shit? wcs races? valve updates?
oh well... it always helps to have an automatic backup system.

[ZERO]

Basically a bunch of software updates and database entries that need to be manually re-entered. :banghead:

Normally there should not have been an issue but for one reason when I turned AHCI back off true image home decided to restore the drive back to another version as if the old image was never there. Basically sent the computer back in time 3 months. Without any loading of any kind it managed to completely wipe a 60gb drive and then replace the data with the 60gb that was there 3 months ago.

I worry about what would occur if I had the drive that hosts the image file unplugged or formatted, would I lose everything or would that have avoided this problem?!

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Ok talking about it helped me figure it out. It is impossible for the drive to overwrite the data that fast, IMPOSSIBLE. Therefore what really occurred was it booted my old drive that I use for the swapfile and as a backup. Restarting the computer and changing to the correct drive fixed the problem.

[Sinister Sith]

why don't you get an external 1TB hdd?

[ZERO]

Why would I have an external 1tb drive when all my media files are on a 12TB raid 6? Not to mention that the raid 6 also has some files backed up on another 1tb drive which are also backed up an an external 250gb drive?

[StarsMine]

D:, we only have a 10TB raid6... so only 5.4tb of actuall space

[taz1stP]

if you can fill up a Terra bite with shit then you need to go and delete some of it.

[ZERO]

I can fill over 5TB right now :smirk:

I still remember when I got the first 75gb drive 10 years ago when 30gb was considered massive. I got 2 of them for 150gb and people told me I was crazy and could never fill them. 2 years later that was the min amount for a high range system.

[StarsMine]

if you can fill up a Terra bite with shit then you need to go and delete some of it.

uhm, its called a nas, it backs up every computer in my house, and we can stream video from it to internet connected devices, AKA, a PS3 :P

[dice]

uhm, its called a nas, it backs up every computer in my house, and we can stream video from it to internet connected devices, AKA, a PS3 :P

Holy shit you have a NAS server in your house? I'm fucking jealous. I've got 4 striped scuzzies, but my computer sounds like a jet engine when they're full duty (it actually sounds hella cool).

[StarsMine]

Not a full Nas, but it acts like one

We got a drobo :D

[ZERO]

I still have never seen the need for a nas. If I ever needed my data hosted off my main system I would just build a low cost dedicated server with a massive raid 6. This way my data would be safe and easy to access and the platform would be simple to upgrade. :wtg:

In all seriousness when I am older I will probably have a house with a central server room to centralize household data storage on a massive 100+TB RAID 60. This way all of our media, photos and important files are organized and safe. :smirk:

[StarsMine]

why 60?

when your older (like say 10 years)
SSDs should completely replace HDD

[ZERO]

I do not think that SSDs will replace hard drives for large storage. The cost difference is too large. If they did then I would run double mirror systems in with RAID 0. This way I am redundant to the physical destruction of one machine. Possibly if I had more than one house the servers would be in physically different locations to protect against fire, then my family data really would be safe rofl :lmao:

[dice]

I do not think that SSDs will replace hard drives for large storage. The cost difference is too large. If they did then I would run double mirror systems in with RAID 0. This way I am redundant to the physical destruction of one machine. Possibly if I had more than one house the servers would be in physically different locations to protect against fire, then my family data really would be safe rofl :lmao:

RAM storage systems are actually extremely common NOW in high-storage enterprise applications, but mostly T0 optimization. It wouldn't surprise me at all to see the spinning HDD become obsolete in 10 years.

[ZERO]

Oh how could I not factor in the cost constricted enterprise market when talking about price differences...