Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
When I first bought my SC-101, I loved it. I had a pair of 200GB drives, mirrored and partitioned into three 50 GB drives each. This lift 50 GB for future expansion. A couple years on, and after collecting the photos for our flower shop (The Bloomery in Butler, PA), I started to realize some of the complaints others have had with this device. The file system doesn't cache the file list, so each time you open a folder, the entire file system has to be read. As you add more and more files, this time takes longer and longer. After about 15,000 photos, this was taking a very long time.
Eventually, we ran out of room on the photo parition, and it was time to expand it. Should be simple enough using the management tools provided, but this is where disaster struck. The expansion failed, and the photo archive was seemingly lost.
After picking through the help files, I found they include a command-line tool which can be used to recover files from broken partitions. I ran out and bought a Western Digital USB hard drive, and ran the recovery tool, transferring to the USB drive. The recovery tool worked perfectly, and I was able to recover all the files, but my confidence in the device was shaken.
The USB drive is a good start, but doesn't really get me where I need to go. I'll detail some of my next steps in following blog posts.
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