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Based on a true story

My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

SomeGuy69 , (edited )

When you click on shortcuts and the path was not found and suddenly common windows DLL are simply missing. RIP.

Pantherina ,

No backup no mercy

ryannathans ,

You're still trusting one drive with your data, and those ssds can die without warning. You're still in the same risky situation with your data

umbrella ,
@umbrella@lemmy.ml avatar

yes! @op always have at least 2 copies at a minimum.

if its really valuable data set up some 321 automatic backup.

Chainweasel OP ,

True, it's definitely in the plans to get a NAS with a RAID setup and it may be expedited to nearer in the future than I thought lol

ryannathans ,

Zfs is the way, raid is far from perfect

AProfessional ,

Raid is a concept, zfs is a type of software raid.

ryannathans ,

No, perhaps you are refering to zraid, one of the vdev types

Hexarei ,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

Reject raid, ZFS supremacy

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

ZFS is essentially a raid implementation. The principle is the same. From what I hear it's probably the most popular implementation right now, and for good reason

Hexarei ,
@Hexarei@programming.dev avatar

It's a fair bit more than that, but yes in a sense it is RAID if you are using it across more than one drive (as you should). You can use ZFS on a single drive though, so it's a middle ground situation.

The main thing is to avoid hardware RAID controllers unless you have a really good reason, and that's generally what most people refer to as RAID. Generally folks are moving to JBOD setups with filesystems like ZFS now though

meekah ,
@meekah@lemmy.world avatar

Ah well, I was not aware that people usually mean hardware when they say raid. Thanks for clearing that up.

EvolvedTurtle ,

I really want to get backups
I'm just poor tbh

rambos ,

Just remember everything and you dont need a backup

arefx ,

Just don't store anything important and problem solved. Lol ;)

SpaceNoodle ,

You running HollywoodOS?

0ddysseus ,

😬

wreckedcarzz ,
@wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world avatar

main storage [...] was

oh no

I backed everything up

OH YEAH 🥤

Chainweasel OP ,

I was not fucking around 😂.
It started to sound like someone put a baseball card on a bike wheel and I had it packed full of mostly TV shows and moves I didn't want to download again lol.

Gormadt ,
@Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

Some of your data may have still been borked BTW

It's best practice to maintain a backup

I'm better at it than I used to be but unfortunately I lost a lot of data to learn that lesson

My drive started ticking a long time ago, I thought I successfully saved my data but when I dug through the drive a bunch of directories were full of broken files

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