>PC crashes
>turn back on
>HDD is dead
NOOOOOOOO
I lost fucking everything
and it was online ~4 years old, fuck you Seagate
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Ryan Johnson
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Colton Peterson
>seagate
Samuel Hill
That's what you get for not using backups idiot.
Isaiah Howard
Restore from backup. Only current seagates over 10TB are acceptable in terms of reliability.
Justin Bennett
It was my "backup" lmao, or at least the HDD I kept everything on while booting off a SSD.
Vidya and films I can redownload easily but losing my music, porn, and anime collections really stings. I'm never buying a mechanical drive again.
Nolan Gutierrez
>plot twist its actually a wd
>but im so far down the Jow Forums rabbit hole
>my brain actually runs on memes
>can't say it out loud for fear of being called something
>might damage my fragile psyche
David Johnson
Send it to a data recovery company?
Oliver Morales
I bought a Seagate at the time because I thought this would be less likely to happen but starting console wars over storage brands is pants on head
I don't even know if I want to send it in to the manufacturer for a replacement, not too keen on some nerd going though my porn.
Tyler Barnes
Does using tools like hdsentinel help prevent this shit? I'd imagine if your HDD were to be crashing like with OP any time soon, that program would pick it up and let you know beforehand. I have a 2TB HDD that I would be distraut over losing, but hdsentinel says it's health is at 100%, even though it's old. Is it possible for that just not to matter?
Easton Thompson
>bought seagate
>no backups
Owen Rogers
>tfw family member wanted gaymen gpu installed on their shitty i3 wallmart shitbox
>bought them a $20 120GB SSD not out of niceness but because I wanted to speed up window and driver reinstall
>week later their ancient WW2 500gb 3.5" sata HDD kills over, had nothing of value in it
>doesn't even show up in windows partitioning tool
>tfw just dodged a bullet because I'm a lazy piece of shit
Jason Bennett
Maybe you should have had a proper backup. Also hoarding porn and anime is proof you are a weak individual. Letting go of digital hoarding is the first step of not being a pathetic person
Ayden Rodriguez
I'll go SSD-only and avoid hoarding from now on. Really not in an economic position to be buying new computer parts though.
Anyone know if this would be a fine stopgap? One of the lowest gb/$ I can find here:
canadacomputers.com
>TeamGroup
>240gb
>$30 USD
Easton Long
off brand SSD? have you not learned your lesson on buying shitty drives? go with samsung or HGST if you still want a HDD
Dylan King
You can try learning how to do it yourself or take quick course in it? Depends on how much you want the data back.
Could be all it takes to fix is switching the HDD logic board, but I don't know, depends on how it died.
>not too keen on some nerd going though my porn
Probably why I should switch to encrypted porn lel
Samuel Lewis
on how it died
>last night
>bunch of games/videos/browsers open
>PC crashes, screen turns to pic related
>restart
>notice software on my HDD is not working properly
>wake up this morning
>turn on PC
>HDD is not detected at all
>is not spinning either
Nathan Hernandez
WD is a lot better than Seagate, rip hope you learn from your misstep.
Jace Foster
is it actually worth paying double the price to get a samsung one?
Henry Murphy
>I'm never buying a mechanical drive again.
I bought a samsung SSD and the damn thing died.
Thomas Peterson
Blake Nguyen
>>Seagate
>>No backup
You deserved it, user.
Isaac Walker
>tfw just bought a 5B seagate backup drive cause i ran out of space on my 1TB WD drive
>my other 1.5TB seagate drive thats 10 years old is still running
Aaron Sullivan
Switch to an SSD, or at the very least a Western Digital HDD
John Walker
>bought 2 seagate 3TB drives
>bought 1 seagate 1TB drive
>all died
Henry Phillips
I lost a caviar black still on warranty. Lost everything.
Also lost a seagate, but recovered almost all by freezing it.
Another Seagate at work was running 8h/day for 7 years and still good.
I'm now on a Toshiba, but have monthly backup images.
Logan Edwards
>bought 1 seagate 1TB drive
>bought 2 seagate 2TB drives
>bought 2 seagate 3TB drives
>bought 1 seagate 4TB drivve
>all still alive
Jack Lopez
Thank god for backups, eh? Aren't you glad we told you about them?
Nathaniel Morgan
>drive dies
>power down machine, plug in new drive
>restart, tell ZFS to start rebuilding the array with the new disk
Isaiah Campbell
>bought a seagate 1TB external drive in 2008
>still working today
feels goodman
Lincoln Myers
You are laughing about the 8 HDD RAID0 user but you still don't do backups. How retarded are you?
Dominic Roberts
ext4 filesystem doesn't have this problem
Parker Wood
install gentoo