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The original was posted on /r/homeassistant by /u/bwente on 2026-07-27 22:00:36+00:00.
tldr; Failed drive to fully restored in a few hours, and most of that was Amazon shipping. 10/10, would panic less again.
Woke up to a dead Home Assistant last night. SSD in my Beelink S12 failed sometime after midnight, connected a monitor and got dumped straight into the UEFI shell, "No mapping found." Drive wasn't detected at the hardware level at all, so no amount of shell poking was bringing it back.
Here's the part that made it painless:
- 8:00am: ordered a new NVMe stick off Amazon
- 1:45pm: delivered
- 2:30pm: flashed the latest HAOS image, restored from a backup sitting on my Samba share
Then I just refreshed the browser tab I'd left open from the day before, and there it was, right where I left it. Didn't even have to log back in.
The whole thing was a non-event purely because I keep the last 5 backups on a separate box instead of on the machine itself. Push them somewhere off the device and set it to automatic.