I have spent a lot of time optimizing my NAS to run quietly and power efficiently. One big way to achieve that is to have the drives run as briefly as possible — I had mine set up to spin down after ...
I got a Synology NAS in early 2019. It has two bays populated with 8 TB drives in mirroring mode that are now obviously four years old. Should I think about replacing one of those drives proactively, ...
Shucking sounds ridiculous until you actually do it.
Your drive shows as RAW. Windows demands that you format it. Or it disappears from Disk Management with no warning. Before ...