HDD issues and now not mounting

[point17]

It looks like a hardware failure in your disk drive. If you can, you should copy off any recordings you want to keep, either via Samba or by mounting the drive in an external reader and then replace the disk.

Thanks. I've tried mounting it in an external reader and get the same problems so I guess it must be the disk. Nearly all the contents were backed up so I've not lost too much. Time to buy a new HDD....

Is there any reason I can't put an off-the-shelf 5TB 2.5" SATA disk in the box? I'm hoping that if I just buy the disk, put it in the box, and Initialise it, then that should work. Am I wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

[Joe_90]

Thanks. I've tried mounting it in an external reader and get the same problems so I guess it must be the disk. Nearly all the contents were backed up so I've not lost too much. Time to buy a new HDD....

Is there any reason I can't put an off-the-shelf 5TB 2.5" SATA disk in the box? I'm hoping that if I just buy the disk, put it in the box, and Initialise it, then that should work. Am I wrong?

Thanks,
Dan

That should be ok. Just make sure that it's the same or smaller height-wise than the original HDD, so that you have sufficient clearance. 5TB is a lot of capacity, so drives of that size tend to be higher. Also - 5TB is a lot of movies to lose in a future failure I use a 1TB 2.5" in my Quad Plus and just occasionally archive off recordings to my 10TB NAS (runs RAID-1 mirroring).