Long Story
I have a large video collection where I've backed up all of my DVDs (via DVDFab, VOB & IFO files) to disk. Originals DVD disks are in boxes in some corner of the basement. I have multiple 2Tb WD green drives, all about 7 years old. I started having trouble playing videos in MC 28; studdering or even hanging indefinitely. I noticed the problem was just with one particular hard drive. I purchased EaseUS to clone the bad drive to a new HHD - it took weeks to reach 70% complete (the product obviously won't skip/report bad sectors). I tried a couple other 'recovery' products with similar results - cancelled the activities out of impatience. I gave up with this approach. Did a library XML export from MC 28 to get a list of which videos were lost so I could start rebuilding my collection on that disk.
In the mean time, I found a deal on server grade 12Tb HHDs. "Light bulb!" How about building raid sets so I don't have to go through the collection rebuild again? After struggling for a few days with ASUS MB Raid configurations, I once again gave up and decided to go with MS "Storage Spaces".
Then I noticed two other disks were reporting a couple (1-3) bad sectors. One would think this would be easy for EasUS to clone. First bad sector it encountered, it stopped. I tried robocopy. At least it told me which files were corrupt. Renamed disk labels and letters to look like the same as original drive. MC 28 hung trying to play one of the videos.
Thinking I had the wrong switches on robocopy, I deleted the video with the bad sectors and did just a straight copy from the bad drive to the raid set. Backed up my MC library, then did a "Find and "Replace". MC found the test video that moved and changed the file paths. Started the video, it play for a second, flickered, then hung. Couldn't see the play bar or minimize the window. Ended up cancelling MC. Rebooted and the same results.
Questions:
Should I upgrade Windows 10 Home. At this point, I have enough invested the upgrade cost would be minimal.
Upgrade MC from 28 to 30? Not a cost issue if it solves my problems.
Try to rebuild the raid set in the ASUS MB. Google queries turn up a lot of folks saying that's a bad idea.
Buy a raid-specific hardware card to build the raid set.
Bite the bullet and figure out a robust backup plan (cringe) and forgot about the raid solution.