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A small dealership with 11 employees, organized into Sales, Part/Service, and Management teams, currently operates on a local workgroup with no domain. They’re using a 5TB USB drive shared over the network for file storage, which is neither secure nor reliable. All employees have Google Workspace accounts with Gmail and Google Drive. With a budget of around $500, the options under consideration are either an on-prem Synology NAS for a shared network drive with backups to Google Drive, or using Google Drive directly as the network storage. Recommendations on the best approach, suitable products, and setup difficulty are being sought.
If it’s not showing anything even in download mode or recovery mode, you’re likely dealing with a dead board or blown charging circuit. You can try connecting it to a PC with Samsung Smart Switch installed — it sometimes detects even semi-dead phones.
Agree with Nina. Most repair guys will just replace parts and reset the phone — make sure you tell them your goal is data, not repair. Also, don’t let them factory reset it just to “test” it.
Could be a motherboard failure or power IC issue. Happened to me once after a sudden shutdown. Sadly, no software will detect it until the board gets power again. You’ll probably need to take it to a repair center and tell them you only care about data recovery, not fixing the phone.
Yeah, I tried that too. No detection, no sound from the PC when I plug it in. It’s like the phone’s brain is gone.
I recently bought an HP 800 G4 Mini to run some services, upgrading from my N100 box.
I want some storage redundancy. The system supports two M.2 NVMe SSDs and a 2.5″ SATA SSD. I plan to use the two NVMe drives in a RAID 1 mirror for applications and the SATA SSD for the OS. This storage will only be for applications, as I have a separate NAS for general storage.
The main applications I want to run are the Pterodactyl panel for game servers and LibreNMS, both using MySQL, with all services running in Docker.
My questions:
Should I use a ZFS mirror, BTRFS RAID 1, or mdadm with Ext4? I like the checksumming and snapshot features of ZFS and BTRFS, but I’ve heard databases don’t always work well on CoW filesystems.
How can I set up notifications if a drive fails? I have SNMP monitoring via LibreNMS and would like alerts to go through that.
For the two NVMe drives in the RAID, is it better to use different models or are two identical drives fine?
I have a MAG Z790 Tomahawk MAX WiFi Gaming motherboard and want to create a RAID using the NVMe drives in slots 3 and 4. My Windows 11 OS is installed on the NVMe drive in slot 1 and is running fine. Can I set up this RAID without affecting my OS drive? Also, is it possible to RAID SATA drives together?
Damn, that sucks man. My S9 did something similar after a random night charge. Have you tried plugging it into a PC? Sometimes the phone won’t show display activity but still gets detected by Windows as a device.
I had two drives connected to a ZimaBlade running Proxmox on RAID1 ZFS. Both drives failed, and I’ve lost all my data.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to recover it or debug the issue? The drives spin but aren’t detected when connected to a PC.
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So last night my S10+ was working totally fine, had around 40% battery left before I went to bed. Woke up this morning, and it’s completely dead. No lights, no vibration, no charging symbol — literally nothing. Tried 3 different cables, 2 adapters, and even a wireless charger. It just won’t respond.
I had so many photos and contacts on it that weren’t backed up. Is there any way to get the data back or am I totally screwed? I don’t care about fixing the phone anymore, I just want my stuff off it.
The community seems split:
-Samsung S25 Ultra wins on hardware, display, customization, and battery.
-iPhone 17 Pro shines with video, performance stability, ecosystem, and design.
It’s not about which is “better” — it’s about which fits your tech lifestyle.
I’m waiting for real AI integration. Apple Intelligence is promising but limited. Samsung’s Galaxy AI already feels more practical day-to-day — translations, summaries, etc.
Design-wise, the iPhone 17 Pro’s titanium finish feels premium. Samsung’s is sleeker but a bit too large for one-hand use. I wish Apple made a smaller Pro Max version.
I have a 2023 system with a simple ZFS mirror pool (rust) using 2x14TB Seagate drives. The system also has 4 SSDs (boot, mirrored data, L2ARC).
Yesterday, TrueNAS reported one drive (ZHZ3Q546) had failed, and the pool went DEGRADED, then SUSPENDED. After a reboot, the pool showed ONLINE and started resilvering. Later, the other drive (WAINR7DV) became DEGRADED. Resilvering is extremely slow (around 600KB/s), causing high I/O load, and SSH/web access is difficult.
I powered off and removed WAINR7DV, checked it on another system, and it looked fine. TrueNAS now keeps rebooting. A scrub on WAINR7DV found no issues.
I want to keep the system running with a single degraded drive while I get a replacement. I’m looking for advice on what might have happened, what I may have done wrong during recovery, and the best next steps.
EDIT: I left WAINR7DV in the system after the first alert. The system now boots in degraded state, and a long SMART test is running.