Rescue My Recordings?

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So, my Roamio OTA started randomly crashing about a month ago (probably with flashing lights, but I had them disabled at the time). It was crashing multiple time a day.

I had installed a WD Green 3TB drive at least 5 years ago, so it was due for replacement anyway.

I ordered a WD Red 3TB drive and Sabrent dual bay dock / cloner.

While awaiting delivery, I installed what I think was the original 1TB drive that I removed when it was new. That drive triggered the first time setup (I guess because the Roamio had been updated to hydra since it's removal ). Everything worked fine, including the cable card (with no configuration required).

I cloned the old 3TB Green to the new 3TB Red using the the cloning function of the dock. Let it run overnight and swapped in Red drive the following morning. I got a cable card info screen twice after installing, but I just dismissed it and all was well old recordings intact.

When I got home after work all the lights were flashing, I power cycled it and all was well again.

It's ran for a few days without issue, but after about 9 days it has crashed several times and the crashes seem to be increasing in frequency.

I had replace the wall wart with a 3.0 amp Bolt adapter about a year ago, and yesterday I swapped that with the identical one from my Mini (same age).

I've ordered a new wall wart, but I'm not optimistic. My suspicion is that whatever error(s) the old drive has were cloned onto the new drive.

Is there anyway to error check the new drive without losing my movie library?

Any way to transfer recordings without cloning?

 

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So, I've been unable to get Kickstart 54 to run successfully. I get to the point of the alternating green and amber lights, but then it goes back to solid green and continues booting normally.

I was able to start Kickstart 57 (which seems like it could actually fix things) but it ran for less than an hour and crashed.

I've pulled the new drive and replaced it with the original 1TB and it's been running problem free for about 24 hours.

I found something called "Western Digital Data Lifeguard Diagnostic". Is that what you're referring to? I'm going to run the tests on both the Red and the old Green drive. Is it capable of repairing anything?

 

Do you know if a "bad sector" can be propagated to a new drive during cloning? I'm scanning the Red drive now, it seems to have settled on an estimate of around 5 hours to complete. Hopefully it will find something, but I'm guessing it won't find or fix file system errors (which seems more likely to have occurred during the clone).

Wish I'd had more foresight and replace this drive a year ago. Lots of my favorite movies on the block.

 

WD30EFAX-68JH4N0 Reading from the diagnostic, as the drive is in bay 2 of my dock and its label is obscured by the old Green drive in Bay 1.

 

I just searched for 3TB Red. What's different?

 

Looking on Amazon again ... looks like the EFAX just has a bigger cache. Why is that bad?

 

Yes, and I can see that part of the label. Will Amazon take it back without argument? They sent what I ordered and I've installed and used it.

 

I have a WD30EFRX in my cart.

Can you point me to an explanation of why the EFAX is bad. I believe what you're saying, and I've found one of your other posts. But I'm still curious why the larger cache is bad or if there's some other difference.