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My 8 year old HDD died (alien.top)

submitted 3 years ago by M3M3-@alien.top [B] to c/datahoarder@selfhosted.forum

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Title says it all. Most of the stuff I had no backup for. It sucks but I'm trying to take it in stride. Time will tell if I actually needed any of that data or if I was just hoarding it with no actual use.

I'm still trying to recover the data with pros, and in any case I'll find a cost-efficient way to keep backups from now (any suggestions? One drive? External SSD?)

Have any of you experienced this? How do you feel or how would you feel? Is this your worst nightmare? Let's discuss

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[–] Celcius_87@alien.top [B] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

Once as a teenager I think I had a drive die and I lost my data, but ever since then I've always made sure to have a backup of my data. Ironically, I haven't had a drive die since then lol. For example, I've got ssds from over a decade ago still running daily with no issues.

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[–] M3M3-@alien.top [S, B] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

Yeah I don't think I'm getting an HDD ever again

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[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 1 point 3 years ago

All storage media fails HDD or SSD. Focus on a backup plan, not your media type.

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[–] Firestarter321@alien.top [B] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)

All drives die eventually whether they are HDD’s or SSD’s.

8 years is a good run for any type of drive.

Backups are key for keeping your data safe over the decades.

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[–] yogopig@alien.top [B] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

But aren’t SSD’s good for like decades of continual use and petabytes of written data? That seems much more reliable than hdds.

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[–] Firestarter321@alien.top [B] 1 point 3 years ago

Not necessarily. I’ve had enterprise SSD’s die that were under 1yr old with less than 100TB written.

I also have HDD’s used in my surveillance system that have several petabytes written to them over the last 6yrs still going strong.

I just moved the HDD I got in my first NAS (8TB WD Red) to its 4th home and it just turned 7 y/o.

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[–] stonktraders@alien.top [B] 1 point 3 years ago

SSD will die as well and it will be nearly impossible to recover data when that happens

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