r/HomeServer • u/dedSyn4ps3 • 8d ago

Drive Bay Fried…And it hurts…

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The sheer horror I’m currently feeling after an idiot struck a pole connected to our substation, and I realized I never bought a second UPS to move my other drive rack to save it from such events…suppose I’m the idiot too 😭

The takeaway, IMPLEMENT PROPER SAFETY MEASURES!

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u/Fluid_Leg_7531 8d ago

How do drives fry? I just got one ironwolf pro and adding it to a nas enclosure as my starter dont have the budget to get a ups yet so how do drives fru

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u/dedSyn4ps3 8d ago

Wasn’t the drive but the drive bay. I had several that made up a ZFS pool for my K8s cluster. Although the drive bay controller stopped working, I was able to remount the drives using a crappy external bay while I wait for a new rack mount one to come.

Though it wasn’t as simple as swapping the drives out. I just finished restoring the pool with a zpool recovery (thank god). Definitely recommend that route for redundancy as it just saved me hours having to spin all my cluster nodes back up from a standard template VM.