I lost 2-3 hdd’s due to old age and lost all data on them. Some other 2-3 hdd’s make a lot of noise while in operation and probably failing. I use VVV to catalog the stuff and to see which files have 2-3 copies, i need to manually search each file name. It’s really tedious. I was wondering if there is another program that does this automatically. I let it scan the hdd’s and it makes catalogs of each hdd and tells me which files don’t have duplicates when i press a button. I have like 18 hdds ranging from 500GB to 4TB full of data so manually searching is too much work now.
This is what RAID is for. Duplicate, or at least spread, data across multiple disks so that a failure of one disk doesn’t result in data loss.