External SSD stopped responding

[cochize1 55]

So, some time ago I moved my folders 'data' and 'transcoding' to external SSD in order to improve performence following roughly this thread:

It was working pretty weel, but today the SSD stopped responding and (even though it was formatted ntfs) it was shown in Synology external devices as 'file system not supported'. I thought to myself to restore library.db and all the files by plugging SSD to my Windows PC and copying the files but for some reason it is not recognized as well (although it was after initial plugging in this morning). I am 100% sure that both the disc and ports are not corrupted and it must be something to do with the filesystem on the SSd disc itself.

Is there any way to browse or recover the files from that disc?

[Luke 42078]

Hmm. @FrostByte have you ever had this happen before?

[Carlo 4561]

Need more info.  If you were following that thread the only advise there you could apply to Synology would be using an USB3 SSD for the transcoding folder to relieve IO.
If that got corrupted you could just try to reformat the drive but there should be no info on the drive needing recovery unless perhaps you had a recording or two there as well?

Is that not how you had this setup?  What exactly were you doing with the SSD?

[cochize1 55]

I believe I corrupted it by (who would have thought) unplugging it while files were transfered.

After 2 days I simply used recovery tool to get all data and metadata files and paste them to theit original Emby folders. Then did a clear format of the disc with no data lost in the process. I think it is safer to have all data in their original position and I believe that with new releases, the server is faster even when on HDD and not SSD.

[Carlo 4561]

Tell us more about the setup you were using.  What information did you have on the external SSD?

BTW, NEVER unplug a USB HDD without first dismounting it.  The easy way to do that in a GUI in DSM is:

Click on the drive for 

On Windows you want to safely eject it as well 

Click on the thumb drive.

Doing that will avoid corrupt disks especially if write caching is used on the drive!!!