For the second time in about as many years, the drive holding my Virtual Machine images died.
Probably just coincidence, but I was wondering if hosting a VM disk image is harder on a drive than simply hosting ordinary files like spreadsheets, documents, images and media?
I was able to recover the VM that was impacted by the bad sectors. But even f lost, it was no big deal as I use the same machines on my desktop and laptop, so I can export one from the machine that is still up, so no data lost as far as I can tell.
(See on-line back up thread as well.)
Just curious if it's just random chance the the two drives that have failed in the past two years (January 2018 and December 2019) were both the dive hosting the virtual machine disk image files, or if such work beats up the drive far more than other work loads.
Probably just coincidence, but I was wondering if hosting a VM disk image is harder on a drive than simply hosting ordinary files like spreadsheets, documents, images and media?
I was able to recover the VM that was impacted by the bad sectors. But even f lost, it was no big deal as I use the same machines on my desktop and laptop, so I can export one from the machine that is still up, so no data lost as far as I can tell.
(See on-line back up thread as well.)
Just curious if it's just random chance the the two drives that have failed in the past two years (January 2018 and December 2019) were both the dive hosting the virtual machine disk image files, or if such work beats up the drive far more than other work loads.