September 16, 20196 yr My new sandisk flash drive is totally dead. So I am wondering what is the best action for me now going forward? I am going to go to the retailer and swap it over for a new one shortly I was still under a trial period, if I make a new unRaid flash drive will I then lose all my data on my drives?
September 16, 20196 yr Community Expert No, you will not lose your data. Did you make a backup of your flash drive? Did you have single or dual parity? Did you have a cache drive or a cache array? Did you make a printout or screen capture of the drive assignment for the drives in the array?
September 16, 20196 yr Author Did you make a backup of your flash drive? No unfortunately I did not. Did you have single or dual parity? No parity drives yet, I was going to add a parity later. But I do have backups elsewhere anyhow. Did you have a cache drive? Yes I have one cache drive Did you make a printout or screen capture of the drive assignment for the drives in the array? Yes I do!
September 16, 20196 yr Community Expert See here for directions: You have a lot more information than a lot of folks do. No parity and a printout of your drive assignments. Just skip instructions on dealing with those problems. (Personally, I always make a printout of the instructions of anything that I am going. Read them carefully, cross out anything that I don't have to do, Finally, I do what is left and checkoff each step as I do it.) You will, of course, have to get a new trial license somewhere along the way... To make a backup of your flash drive. Main >>> Boot Device click on 'Flash' under the "Device" column. Look for Flash Device Settings tab/section. Click on the 'FLASH BACKUP' button. Edited September 16, 20196 yr by Frank1940
September 16, 20196 yr Community Expert 2 hours ago, Frank1940 said: To make a backup of your flash drive. Main >>> Boot Device click on 'Flash' under the "Device" column. Look for Flash Device Settings tab/section. Click on the 'FLASH BACKUP' button. And you should always get a new flash backup anytime you make any configuration changes. This is especially important when you make any changes to the disk assignments; i.e., adding, removing, replacing.
September 16, 20196 yr Community Expert Also, since you didn't have a flash backup to work from, you will have to set things up again, since your settings were on that dead flash. But the data on the disks themselves should be fine.
September 17, 20196 yr Community Expert I have split the hijacker posts into their own thread. @z0ki Did you get things working again?
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