Most_Mix_7505@alien.topBtoData Hoarder@selfhosted.forum•Unrepairable data corruption on a raidz2 when all drives show zero errors -- HOW???English
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10 months agoDoes it have ECC memory?
Does it have ECC memory?
NAS drives should have shorter recovery times with bad sectors so that the raid array doesn’t completely kick the drive out, and have more vibration tolerance since they’re supposed to be in an enclosure with multiple drives.
It was only a matter of time considering how these companies consider consumers necessary pests and put the least possible effort in their services that are consumer facing.
It’s fine on most if not all USB thumb drives nowadays. Windows has disabled its write cache on removable devices since like 2016. It was more annoying than anything anyway since the cache just soaked up all the writes into system memory with no throttling. Then you could be sitting there for half an hour not knowing the progress of the writes on the drive if it was a slow flash drive.
For external SSDs it’s a must to do a safe removal since the drive’s write cache will almost always be enabled, or if it’s disabled the drive’s performance will tank. Not sure about DRAM-less SSDs though. Also, SSDs can corrupt more than just the data being modified, so the stakes are higher.
For external SMR hard drives the write cache will always be enabled since they basically can’t function without it, so it would be a good idea to do a safe removal then. Plus the drive gets shutdown cleanly. A surprise power cut makes the head slam back with the residual energy from the spinning platters and I’ve seen it kill a couple drives.
TL;DR thumb drives you can just yank on windows, everything else you should probably do a safe removal