CactusBoyScout

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Drive reports *6* bad sectors after moving from old NAS to new NAS. in c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum
[–] CactusBoyScout@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I'm confused by Synology's OS and how you actually view the SMART report but it just says "Healthy" and now it isn't even showing the bad sectors anymore...

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Drive reports 6 bad sectors after moving from old NAS to new NAS. (alien.top)
 

Hello,

So I've had this janky QNAP NAS for years. It's janky because my apartment got hit by lightning a few years ago and fried one of the ethernet ports.

Ever since then, I had been using it (against my better judgment) because the other ethernet port still worked so I was able to keep using it.

I finally got a new NAS (Synology) and two new drives and migrated all my data over. Whew!

But now I've got two empty slots so I figured I would move over the newer of 2 of the 4 drives from my old QNAP NAS.

But the QNAP has a weird issue... it never shuts down properly, possibly related to the lightning. Any time you tell it to shut down, it just reboots. So I basically told it to shut down and once it seemed close to rebooting, I just pulled the power cord.

Then I moved those two newer drives over to the Synology NAS which is when it told me that one drive has six bad sectors. The drives are encrypted by QNAP's OS if that matters. So I was planning to wipe them anyway.

  1. Is it likely that the improper shutdowns contributed to the bad sectors?
  2. Is it likely that wiping the drives could solve this somehow?
  3. Should I not use that drive?

Thanks

What is everyone's go to audio streaming choice? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] CactusBoyScout@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I just went through this and tried quite a few Navidrome clients before settling on Plexamp.

I wanted to like Navidrome because it’s more forgiving with your tagging/organization, particularly with compilations. It reads the compilations ID3 tag and puts all tracks with the same album title and that tag in one album, which is super simple.

Plex is far more picky with tagging/structure. But the clients for Plexamp are just so much better, imo.

So I just eventually sucked it up and spent days retagging my MP3 collection and moving files around to make it work with Plex. It sucked but it was worth it.

I don't fully understand how/why you guys selfhost some apps in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] CactusBoyScout@alien.top 2 points 11 months ago

After a while, you start to get tired of apps and other online services either disappearing or changing in ways you don’t like.

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If you were scheduling both Duplicati backups and Watchtower updates to run nightly, which would you run first? (alien.top)
 

On the one hand, if I run Duplicati first, I can roll back to a previous version if there's an issue with an update.

On the other hand, if I run Watchtower first, I'm backing up the latest version.

Are there any concerns/risks to using Watchtower? in c/main@selfhosted.forum
[–] CactusBoyScout@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I just had a strange issue with Watchtower where it somehow failed to update itself. And it left a running but unhealthy duplicate of itself. Just restarting the old container fixed it. But I guess that’s a risk?