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Originally Posted by bojan
It came from shop already formatted (Officeworks, WD 2TB).
BTW, I was thinking about getting some sort of storage controller, perhaps a box with couple of HD’s that are accessible via LAN.
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A NAS (Network Attached Storage) you mean. Can be made easily free but in your case just buy an off the shelf unit. Synology are a great brand.
Re pre formatted drives, you should ALWAYS format (NOT Quick Format) any new hard drive you add to your system, internal or external. It'll take a long time for large drives but its a good test to ensure the drive didn't come with problem sectors and you can easily return for exchange.
Ultimately the problem you had was because you didn't use the "safely remove device" from the windows taskbar, you probably just pulled the cable out of the usb socket. Windows for a while now "opens" a reserved write session to usb storage devices, so when you save a file it might not be saved at that time, gives you the illusion of fast performance and gets you back to your program sooner. by using the safely remove device icon from the taskbar it ensures Windows completes any writing tasks it needs to make. When you yank the drive it may have only half a task written and you end up with a corrupted drive and all the fun youve been through. just do it properly to avoid in future.