Windows Software Raid 5 - Files disappearing

[NoobsWeStand]

Hello,

 

I've setup a windows raid 5 with 3 3TB WD Blue HHDs.

It's been working fine for the most part, but I've been experiencing issues with it randomly deleting files.

I've scanned all of the hard drives individually with WD's tools, but there was no issues reported. Also windows reports no issues with the drives either. They are about 2.5 years old now.

 

Windows Write caching was enabled on the hard drives.

 

Not sure what the issue is. Should I abort with WD Blues and change to NAS hard drives, or is it Windows messing up?

[Electronics Wizardy]

What raid 5? Storage spaces or disk management raid?

 

God backups? Do you have a list of the missing files?

 

Id recreate the raid in storage spaces, and restore whats missing with your backups.

[NoobsWeStand]

30 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

What raid 5? Storage spaces or disk management raid?

 

God backups? Do you have a list of the missing files?

 

Id recreate the raid in storage spaces, and restore whats missing with your backups.

 

Storage spaces.

I have backups, but not a list of files. It is all media files from blue rays/dvds.

[Electronics Wizardy]

1 minute ago, NoobsWeStand said:

 

Storage spaces.

I have backups, but not a list of files. It is all media files from blue rays/dvds.

Can you compare the files to the backups to find out whats missing?

 

Is anything off in eventviewer?

[NoobsWeStand]

On 6/17/2021 at 9:22 PM, Electronics Wizardy said:

Can you compare the files to the backups to find out whats missing?

 

Is anything off in eventviewer?

Sorry for the late response,

There was nothing notable in the event viewer. I ran a sfc scan for each drive they were clean.

My guess is that I had write caching enabled on the drives and there was a brief power outage.

 

I rebuilt the windows storage space, and restored from a backup.