That's me right now. ^^ One of the main reasons I decided to build myself a NAS is because recently one of my oldest drives died on me so suddenly, all sectors went bad. I believe it happened due to faulty USB cable that I used to connect to PC and after several reconnects or something, its main partition got corrupted. I tried to salvage the data from it but it was not possible. I attempted to format it the other day but to no avail. I cannot create a volume to make a partition on it, HDD reports sometimes having 0 bytes sometimes 1.82TB storage. "It's dead, Jim." never felt more appropriate so far.
Thanks for the suggestions, guys.
Indeed. Too bad that I postponed it for so long that one of my drives went bad in the meantime. Thankfully, all the data that was on it can be redownloaded (somewhat recent movies, TV shows, etc.) so it's not all that bad.
That's a good idea as well. I'll keep it in mind.
I'll be looking into acquiring parts these days (well, mainly checking prices), won't rush it but think it over. If you have any more suggestions on what I should look for, I'd be grateful for your suggestions and opinions. I'll post my findings after a few days.