Hi. Hoping someone can shed some light on my ongoing noob issues with a lacie 2big raid set up. I'm a filmmaker with a tonne of data spread across different ironwolf drives - I've been using 2big but to be honest it is causing me as many problems as it is solving (yes, human error probably at the heart of this) as a newcomer to this tech.
Currently, I've put a 14tb drive back into the system which my M1 mac (ventura) says is uninitalized and called 'array'.
But I didn't think so - I don't want to initialize it because I'm 99% sure it has data on it and something whack is happening with RAID manager which is probably my fault. On running first aid in disk utility, no problems are found. Have tried on another mac, same issue.
RAID manager says it's JBOD and the 'distribution' bar is fully blue. So it's my understanding this means it is not mirrored.
Essentially, I'd like to know - is there any chance that this drive I am 99% sure should have my data on it cannot be read/initalized because it is not being inserted along with its mirrored drive? If you have two copies of a drive..can they not be read alone? Is it now useless alone?!
What was on its counterpart is no longer there due to a calamity; last week I lost what was on a new drive (a film edit, thankfully backed up on a non-RAID system) when I inserted an old ironwolf drive next to it and RAID manager immediately 'rebuilt' the film edit drive I was working on to mirror/back up the drive I was inserting (without a prompt).
I'm obviously doing things very wrong but to be honest have not found a simple guide to start off. I can see ongoing issues in future if I don't get on top of this - aside from today's main issue, which appears to be lost projects on this drive which needs initliazing (unless data recovery software might find it?)
thank you!
Currently, I've put a 14tb drive back into the system which my M1 mac (ventura) says is uninitalized and called 'array'.
But I didn't think so - I don't want to initialize it because I'm 99% sure it has data on it and something whack is happening with RAID manager which is probably my fault. On running first aid in disk utility, no problems are found. Have tried on another mac, same issue.
RAID manager says it's JBOD and the 'distribution' bar is fully blue. So it's my understanding this means it is not mirrored.
Essentially, I'd like to know - is there any chance that this drive I am 99% sure should have my data on it cannot be read/initalized because it is not being inserted along with its mirrored drive? If you have two copies of a drive..can they not be read alone? Is it now useless alone?!
What was on its counterpart is no longer there due to a calamity; last week I lost what was on a new drive (a film edit, thankfully backed up on a non-RAID system) when I inserted an old ironwolf drive next to it and RAID manager immediately 'rebuilt' the film edit drive I was working on to mirror/back up the drive I was inserting (without a prompt).
I'm obviously doing things very wrong but to be honest have not found a simple guide to start off. I can see ongoing issues in future if I don't get on top of this - aside from today's main issue, which appears to be lost projects on this drive which needs initliazing (unless data recovery software might find it?)
thank you!
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