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Technology August 13, 2021 | Leave a Comment

PSA: Check your hard drive health with SMART

I purchased a Synology 1813+ in … 2013 (it took me a while to figure out that the last two digits in a Synology model number refers to the year), and in the last week or so I kept getting warnings about imminent failure of at least one hard drive. We’re currently undergoing a smallContinue reading PSA: Check your hard drive health with SMART

Technology January 12, 2010February 22, 2019 | Leave a Comment

Drive recovery

I had to validate my data recovery today. Imagine my surprise that they recovered a Mac partition. This drive was my external Mac drive *before* it became an internal NTFS drive, after which I copied my data to it, at which point it failed. So tonight is going to be interesting as I go deeperContinue reading Drive recovery