[Leica] External Hard Drives

[Frank Filippone]

Aram... Her Drobo HDD system is starting to fail.  The SW part of the boxes is not getting updates, but Windows is.... A really bad situation which 
will get worse. A case where only new HW with attendant SW updates (if only to respond to what Windows is doing) is really needed.

While reasonably $$$, it is her only option.  A complete rebuild of it all. Synology NAS, new HDD ( only because it will allow complete system 
redundancy until the very last moment, plus it really was cheaper than getting a second box to hold her current accumulation of small 3-10TB HDD).

As far as the problem with drives changing letters... Drobo is involved, so I am not sure how they assigned letters/names to HDD.  I do suspect the 
problem is rectified as you suggest..... and fixing that would still be a dead end on unsupported products.  So best to focus on the future.....

Frank Filippone
BMWRed735i at Gmail.com

On 5/5/2024 6:32 AM, Aram Langhans via LUG wrote:
> Just back from a week camping so maybe you have solved your problem.  I get the digest, so cannot see any newer replies.
>
> You can get a new battery for them and it is easy to replace. But it should have some sort of indicator light to tell you the battery is not up to 
> snuff anymore.
>
> I find it a mystery why the drive letters change.  When you change your drive letter are you doing it in the disk management section of the control 
> panel or just in the file explorer window. I would go to disk management and make the letter change there and see if that works.
>
> Aram
>
> On 5/3/2024 8:26:09, Tina Manley wrote:
>> The computer is plugged into the APC power backup but when the power goes
>> out, everything goes out.
>>
>> I guess it's not working and I need to investigate that.  It's pretty old.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tina
>>
>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 11:19 AM Brian Reid <reid at mejac.carlsbad.ca.us>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Connected to what? If there is backup power, then the computer shouldn't
>>> be aware of the outage.
>>> The drive letters are determined by the computer and not by the drives,
>>> so the computer is what needs to be plugged into an APC.
>>>
>>> On 2024-05-03 07:57, Tina Manley via LUG wrote:
>>>> I have an APC power backup connected but it doesn't help!
>>>>
>>>> Tina
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 10:55 AM Sonny Carter via LUG
>>>> <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I have back ups power supplies on mine and never had that happen.
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Sonny
>>>>> www.SonC.Com/Look
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, May 3, 2024 at 9:45 AM Tina Manley via LUG
>>>>> <lug at leica-users.org>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> LUG:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Every time the power goes out, as it did this morning, when it comes
>>> back
>>>>>> on all of my 7 external hard drives have changed their designation
>>> letter
>>>>>> arbitrarily.  It really messes up my LR catalog and takes hours to
>>> fix.
>>>>>> Current (G) becomes Current (J) and all photos in LR have to be
>>> "found"
>>>>>> again.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is there any way to permanently assign these designations so they
>>> don't
>>>>>> change??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> TIA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Tina
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -- 
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