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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)

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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 1 year ago

I've had one drive die on me and that was in a PC that was inside my house when it experienced a severe fire.

It lasted long enough for me to pull the data to another disk but on the next reboot it died.

These days I have a parity protected nas, a backup nas and and an off-site storage solution with my more essential data. Also cloud for photos.