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WyomingKnott
I read the product sheet, and the RAID section says "For computers with RAID Function." So the machine is doing the RAID. Do you still have one good drive with your backups on it?
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WyomingKnott

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?? Could you be more specific? The EZ Dock 2 does not have a RAID capability. Do you mean the controller? And can you give more detail about the sequence of events - was the drive known good until you put it in the dock? Will it run if you attach it to a mobo controller?
 
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lindenhillsguy

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OK.Here's the deal. I'm not a major techie, so I hired a consultant to help me develop a fool prof back up system. His solution: Purchase the E Dock 2 and three 4Tb drives (Western Digital).

Using the switches on the EZ Dock, he set up a RAID 1 (Mirror)configuration. THis I designated as my "Z" drive. this worked just fine for a month or so. As he instructed I then took the 3rd drive and reset the switches on the EZ Dock to "CLONE" and I cloned a drive.

I removed that drive to another location and reset the switches to the RAID 1 config as indicated in the manual.

Everything worked fine for a period of time.

One day I turned on the computer at it said "Corrupted Drive" and asked me if I wanted to reformat.

I didn't worry because I had the clone. I put the clone in and it said the same thing.

I have been in touch with the company a Kingwin and they haven't given me a solution.

That is why I said that something with the chip in the EZ Dock must have messed up my data.

This is obviously very serious as I have a months work on it and stopped backing up because I thought I had a "foolproof" method with the RAID ! and the Clone.
 
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WyomingKnott

WyomingKnott

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Now it's clear. You'll need a response from someone other than me. I use removable drive bays for backups (it works beautifully), but my advice is to use backup software and only have the drive in the dock when doing the backup. I feel that my backups are safer that way; a hit to the machine can't corrupt the backup drive.

If your system is fine and you don't need what's on the backup volume, there's no reason not to wipe it and start a new backup cycle on it. But, of course, you need to resolve the destruction issue first. One thing comes to mind - is there something that you should do in software, or on the dock, to indicate that you are removing a disk before you actually detach it?

EDIT: I'm sorry to hear that you have trouble with Kingwin hardware. I use them exclusively for my docking bays. My system SSD is in one. Have you tried any of the standard recovery tools to fix the drive? Here's a thread discussing some of them: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/267620-32-best-data-recovery-tools
 
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lindenhillsguy

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Hi WyomingKnott

Thank you for your time on this. I have back-up that were done the old way on external drives, but I have lost everything that was done during the month I "converted" to the Kingwin Raid 1. My consultant told me I was wasting my time backing up the old way on externals. Now he wants nothing to do with me or a solution.

I will look at the recover link you mentioned. I have a theory that HEAT generated from the two disks in the dock continuously did something to corrupt the drives.

To answer your question, I still have the three new 4tb Western Digital drives. I haven't reformatted any of them in the hope that I can still resurrect some of my data.

Again... thank you!
 
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fzabkar

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This is the only "manual" I could find:
http://kingwin.com/products/cate/docking_stations/manual/manual_final_univ.pdf

There is no mention of "clone" in the switch settings.

Am I looking at the wrong product?

BTW, the specs state that the capacity limit is 3TB:
http://kingwin.com/products/cate/docking_stations/docs/ezd_2536/specs.html

Did you partition and format the drives in the dock, or did you do this inside your computer and then transfer them to the dock?

If you did this, and if your dock is affected by a 32-bit LBA limitation, then be advised that this procedure will create a time bomb that corrupts your file system as soon as you write data beyond the 2TiB point.

I would use your spare drives to test for this possibility. I would install two new drives and see how your OS (or HD Sentinel, CrystalDiskInfo, etc) detect them.
 
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lindenhillsguy

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Is it really possible that by my using 4TB drives that the ez dock actually corrupted ALL the drives. Unbelievable, but that seems to be what happened. FYI the people at EZ dock told me they were working on a solution to my problem months ago and never got back to me after repeated requests.

I now just use their dock as a simple one drive dock and have given up on rescuing all my data, 90% of it was backed up elsewhere, luckily!!

 
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