karym6
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No not yet, but the Emprex one just killed 200Gb+ of data...
Anyone tried this?
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The Emprex device uses XFS as its file system. What it does when you format the disk is this; it creates a swap partition and a regular partition but it also creates a third partition to hold info on Samba etc as well as the spoolers for the print server.
If the superblocks get corrupted on any of the partitions, they are lost for ever. There are tools to recover XFS partitions in Linux, but the Emprex device does a complete number on its partitions when it fails. This is the second time I have lost them, but the first time I have lost so much data in one go.
You can use FAT as the filesystem, but this makes it as slow as a dog to use. Hopefully my new one will be here soon. It uses EXT2/3, I bought two 1Tb internal drivers to go with it and I am planning to use one as a mirror incase the other dies.
If the superblocks get corrupted on any of the partitions, they are lost for ever. There are tools to recover XFS partitions in Linux, but the Emprex device does a complete number on its partitions when it fails. This is the second time I have lost them, but the first time I have lost so much data in one go.
You can use FAT as the filesystem, but this makes it as slow as a dog to use. Hopefully my new one will be here soon. It uses EXT2/3, I bought two 1Tb internal drivers to go with it and I am planning to use one as a mirror incase the other dies.
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