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NOTORIOUS VR

Member Since 11 Feb 2012
Offline Last Active Feb 17 2012 01:43 PM
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WHS, 2 drives, one failed and I lost data even with duplication on

11 February 2012 - 12:12 PM

Can anyone explain why?

I thought with folder duplication on windows was supposed to make sure it had enough space on either drive to hold a copy of everything w/ duplication turned on. Yet when one drive completely died I lost a TON of data.

I suppose that having more drives might be more of a failure point in the mechanical sense, but also might allow more data to be duplicated? What say ye?

My last config was 1TB Seagate (the one that died) and a 1.5TB WD Green. Had around 850Gb free w/ both drives alive.

I picked up a 2GB WD Green to replace the dead Seagate, but am weary and would like to add another 500GB WD that I have kicking around hoping for more "backup" redundancy I guess.