Connect Multiple Hard Drives
Monument has 2 USB ports for external hard drives. The first hard drive connected becomes the primary drive for uploading photos and videos and the second hard drive connected becomes the backup drive, which is an exact copy of the primary drive. Creating multiple backups is a great idea in case a single hard drive fails in the future.
Note: If the backup drive is smaller than the primary drive,
not all content will be backed up.
Suggested Article: Hard Drive Errors
Primary Drive
- Connect the first hard drive to any USB slot
Note: It may take a minute for the hard drive to initialize
- Select Use As Storage
- This drive will become your Primary Drive
Backup Drive
- Connect the second hard drive to the other USB slot
Note: If the backup drive size is smaller than the primary drive, then not
all content will fully back up. - Select Use As Backup
- This drive will become your Backup Drive
- The Backup Drive will start to automatically back up the Primary Drive
Note: If the primary drive is still uploading or analyzing photos
(blinking white LED), then the Backup Drive will allow that to finish
first.
Comments
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Thanks for the information. Your images are not rendering on my browser. I was also wondering if you might explain how to replace a current drive with a larger drive?
@Truexr
Thanks for pointing that out! We've fixed the images and they should display now.
Yup! We are working on another article on how to do that. I will update this comment once it has been created :)
If the 1st dirve fails, can the backup be plugged straight into the #1 slot and no data lost?
My second drive worked as a backup (after plugging it in via a powered USB hub because the Monument isn't able to supply power to two hard drives at once), so, following your advice that 'Creating multiple backups is a great idea in case a single hard drive fails in the future', I bought a third hard drive. I had to connect this via SMB plugged into a router on the network. It did connect, but sat at 0% backup for about an hour. Then I noticed it had gone inactive. It is running, but the Monument won't connect to it anymore. When I click the drive in the Hard Drives section of Settings, it says 'An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later.' How do I get the Monument to move past this point? I have tried restarting it several times.
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