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Appreciate all the advice, everyone. I’ll take it to a data recovery center first thing tomorrow and will try that software if I get even a flicker of life out of it.
Just to add..if you’re planning to revive it just for data, get a new battery or take it to a pro repair shop that does board-level repair. Once it powers on, stop using it and connect immediately to a recovery tool before anything gets overwritten.
If you can get it to at least show something on the screen or get detected, you can try using an Android data recovery software on your PC. It can scan internal storage and recover photos, videos, contacts..all that. Works if the phone boots even partially.
I bid on an auction on a whim and ended up with an IBM Power9 S914 server with 4x16GB RAM and 12 open slots. Below it is a TS4300 tape library that can hold 40 LTO cartridges, which works out to about 720TB if using 18TB tapes. I honestly have no idea where to start with it.
The top unit is an IBM HMC (7063-CR1), which can manage multiple servers. The setup also came with rails, cables, spare network cards, and a slide-out KVM with a screen and keyboard.
At home, I already have a full rack with unused Dell R620s, a Unifi UNAS-Pro with 7x20TB WD Red Pros for media, and a small Dell micro cluster for my homelab. I originally wanted a server to host some SaaS sites, but now I’m considering selling the IBM gear and getting a Dell R740 or R750 instead.
So, what exactly do I have here, what’s it worth, and what’s the best way to sell it if I decide to? Or what would you do with it if it were yours?
Yeah, looks like it’s not even soft-bricked. The PC doesn’t pick it up at all. Are there any tools that could still help if I somehow get it to power on?
If Smart Switch or Odin can’t detect it, your best shot is with a PC data recovery tool. There are Android recovery programs that can scan phones that are still soft dead (detected by USB). If it doesn’t detect at all, you might be in hard-brick territory.
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.
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?
What software do you use with your LTO drives—LTFS, Retrospect, Bareos, or something else? What’s worked well for you, and what problems have you run into?