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We are digital librarians. Among us are represented the various reasons to keep data -- legal requirements, competitive requirements, uncertainty of permanence of cloud services, distaste for transmitting your data externally (e.g. government or corporate espionage), cultural and familial archivists, internet collapse preppers, and people who do it themselves so they're sure it's done right. Everyone has their reasons for curating the data they have decided to keep (either forever or For A Damn Long Time (tm) ). Along the way we have sought out like-minded individuals to exchange strategies, war stories, and cautionary tales of failures.

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My 8 year old HDD died (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

This gets way more sympathy if you leave out the HDD part. Just sayin'

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

lol, dark

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

If you like that one, how about "I have a bunch of 6 year olds hooked up in my basement" to refer to an old array of disks on a dedicated server.