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
Live and learn
Why people only post here after their drive dies? Don’t be offended if you won’t get sympathy here, because there are about 2 posts like this every week.
Why there are no posts like “Look, guys I’ve made backups, be proud of me!” ?
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.
Does anyone have any suggestions for offsite backup? I’ve heard backblaze is good but looking for suggestions!
‘There’s two kinds of people in this world, those that have backups, and those who will’
Welcome to the club, and sorry for your loss.
There’s lots of practices around backups with different levels of complexity and costs. Before deciding on how you want to handle things going forward ask yourself a few questions
- How important is this data? Is it irreplaceable?
- How much data do I have to backup?
- How do I want to control it? Locally? Cloud services?
- What budget do I have to do this with?
In some cases, it’s cheaper and less headache to use cloud backup services for smaller amounts of data, with the downside being that you’re trusting someone else with your data.
In others, setting up your own DAS(direct attached storage) or NAS (network attached storage) might make sense, then you manage the data locally. You should do some reading to understand the basic concepts of RAIDs 1,0,5 and 10 and how they affect data redundancy.
Lastly, consider if a 3-2-1 (The 3-2-1 rule states that you should have 3 copies of your data (your production data and 2 backup copies) on two different storage types with one copy off-site for disaster recovery.) back up policy makes sense for you and your risk tolerance. Some absolutists will state you have no real backup without it, but IMO there’s some grey area there depending on different needs and risk tolerances.
The important part is you’re now considering options to reduce your chances of experiencing this again.
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.
Yeah I don’t think I’m getting an HDD ever again
All storage media fails HDD or SSD. Focus on a backup plan, not your media type.
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.