I have a 24TB and 26TB drives that I formatted with NFTS… Had a lot of my media on those drives and I used the media daily. ONE day, a couple of weeks ago, those drives just disappeared. They were running on a Ugoos AM9.
After a lot of mistakes and trial and errors I finally got them back work as should (that was a long story failures on my part). Two days ago, it happened again. Then I noticed the clock on my stove was flashing. I had a power outage. So, from all of my reading if the high capacity drives get interrupted without proper shut down, a flag is set saying the file system is dirty. Then they can’t be mounted by CoreELEC.
I tried to use exfat and that is working but having issues…….
What should I do to prevent this from happening again. I have a couple of UPS in my media rack but not enough ports for all of my external drives.
thank you.
Use EXT4 and you can fix them from CE.
Don’t post untested instructions from AI.
Do you have a link with instructions to format to Ext4?
I don’t want to give some instructions without testing them first.
Your AI did give you good start. Just be careful to format correct drive!
And also don’t forget this process will wipe out your disk.
The issue that I encontered apparently only affects drives larger than 16TB. I had a 16TB, 24TB and 26TB attached to the Ugoos AM9. Only the high capacity drives were no longer seen. I am guessing the higher capacity drives have something that is different.
I have been running 16TB drives for a few years under CoreELEC and LibreELEC file servers without issues.
I used AOMEI Partition Assistant on my Windows PC and it will only create a EXT4 file system on 12TB or less. Higher than that, the app crashes. I did create two partitions on my 22TB drive and have been testing that.
I guess to solve the long term issue of power outages, I have to convert all of my high capacity drives EXT4. Next step is to take one of my mini PCs out of retirement an load Linux onto it, if not already there.
Of course all of this will be moot because all of the AI farms are gobbling up the hard drives. A few months ago, I purchased a 24TB an 26TB Seagate external drives. Each was less than $300 USD. Those days are long gone to never return.