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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 (1 children)

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.

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

But aren’t SSD’s good for like decades of continual use and petabytes of written data? That seems much more reliable than hdds.

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

Not necessarily. I’ve had enterprise SSD’s die that were under 1yr old with less than 100TB written.

I also have HDD’s used in my surveillance system that have several petabytes written to them over the last 6yrs still going strong.

I just moved the HDD I got in my first NAS (8TB WD Red) to its 4th home and it just turned 7 y/o.