January 23, 20251 yr I'm currently in the process of running ddrescue on my newest drive to attempt to recover what I can before I RMA it. This is my fault for not having a parity drive, so I understand that. The data is all non-personal media, so it isn't anything critical. However, I noticed that the drive is progressing in the wrong direction fairly rapidly, and I wanted to see if anyone could help me understand if I am taking the right approach here or if anyone has any advice. I have been running ddrescue for around 18 hours now. I'll post a screenshot with the current statistics. I understand ddrescue is going to take a long time on a 24tb drive, but what I am concerned about is that the failing drive has gone from offline uncorrectable and pending sectors of 900 something to over 7000 in that time. Is this normal/inevitable? Am I still doing the best thing I can, given the situation?
January 23, 20251 yr Author Understood, I apologize for not attaching them initially. I didn't know if they would be helpful in this situation, but I will make sure to always include them, in the future. barnicus-diagnostics-20250123-0931.zip
January 23, 20251 yr Community Expert Solution 48 minutes ago, Zacaronii said: but what I am concerned about is that the failing drive has gone from offline uncorrectable and pending sectors of 900 something to over 7000 in that time. Is this normal/inevitable? It can be, it will depend on the damage, only option is to wait to see if/what it can recover, but looks like the disk is in a very bad state.
January 23, 20251 yr Author I appreciate the prompt response, Jorge. I just wanted validation that I was doing the right thing. I guess this is a hard lesson learned. I have two new drives ready to slot in there for parity once I am done with this recovery attempt. Another thing I realized is that I could have potentially caught the issues with this drive sooner, if I had taken the time to run a preclear. Although, even in that situation, I would have still saved myself a lot of headache if I at least had 1 parity drive.
January 24, 20251 yr Community Expert 21 hours ago, Zacaronii said: I could have potentially caught the issues with this drive sooner Do you have Notifications setup to alert you by email or other agent as soon as a problem is detected?
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