The Gorse Fox has run some diagnostics on his errant hard drive. Even the diagnostics wouldn't complete but did reveal an error (which was undocumented). As a temporary workaround the Gorse Fox has renamed the failed folder and rebuilt it elsewhere on the drive. Hopefully this will give him sufficient time to find a replacement.
Talking of a replacement, it seems that manufacturers no longer sell standalone NAS drives. (Those that are available - for example, from Curries - are several years old and the reviews are dreadful). This means that the Gorse Fox will have to come up with a new, robust solution. The current idea (though not fully formed, as yet) is to build a NAS server on a new Raspberry Pi. This can then host one or more drives (HDD or SSD) which can be connected via USB 3. The underlying software to control this configuration would be OpenMediaVault. It all seems quite feasible but would cost more than a straight replacement drive would have; though significantly less than a dedicated NAS box.
While talking IT, Amazon should be here any minute with the new parts for the Silver Vixen's Windows laptop, "Osprey".
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