*click*

If you're still using a HDD in modern day you deserve it.

If you aren't backing up your data you also deserve it.

i am more of a marble machine type of guy
youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

never forget

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Assuming I'm a retard and this is an actual scenario
Won't the power requirements from the hub just kill your USB slot real fast.

am retard don't get it

how often do I need to degfrag my ssd?

kek every time

Lost 5000 hand-picked hentai pics a few months ago, still fucking hurts,

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I've been using the same WD Green drive for the past 8 years. Is it normal for hard drives to last this long? Should I replace it soon or not? Ofc I don't use it as a system disk or for games, only for movies and shit.

In the 20 years I've been fucking around with computer shit I've never had a single hard drive fail. Even my 3GB IBM Deathstar drives still work.

"RAID 0 (disk striping) is the process of dividing a body of data into blocks and spreading the data blocks across multiple storage devices......
Because striping spreads data across more physical drives, multiple disks can access the contents of a file, enabling writes and reads to be completed more quickly. However, unlike other RAID levels, RAID 0 does not have parity. Disk striping without parity data does not have redundancy or fault tolerance. That means, if a drive fails, all data on that drive is lost.....
RAID 0 is best used for storage that is noncritical but requires high-speed reads and writes. Caching live streaming video and video editing are common uses for RAID 0 due to speed and performance."

Google is your friend

Seagate

If you don't keep rewriting stuff in it all the time it will live on decades if you are lucky

i had one of those when it died and now i lost my sisters nudes forever

Or you can just back your shit up like anyone should regardless of RAID setup.

My laptops HDD is still going strong 8 years later. But i put a major amount of my shit on 2 external drives. Do people usually get backup externals for their externals?

this thing looks like it should fall apart if you breathe too hard in its general direction

Does anyone have any idea when this could potentially start failing? It seems good, but I'm always nervous about it anyway.

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>becomes the future

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I guess you're that one retard who doesn't use it for storage drives then. Back your shit up in HDDs.

Had fucking tow of these die in a row. Never using Seagate again.

F

I could be wrong on this but I'm pretty sure modern OS all defrag boot drives automatically.

My OS and all my programs are on a 1TB M.2 SSD, while I store large files, like video games and recording, on a 4TB HDD.

t. The 8-bit guy

>degfrag
>ssd

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STOP, MY HDD JUST DIED FUCK

Nothing is more cringe than ssd retards
>expensive = good!

>laptop hard drive has been clicking for 8 years and it's still chugging along

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I'm too lazy and FUD to make the switch to SSD.

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How does someone even invent something like this? I hate being dumb.

No, not really. If there were more demand for power than supply the result would be some of the USB devices not responding, and the OS dropping them with the assumption they're removed. Like if you were to plug sixty high-draw appliances into one power outlet, the power supply is divided equally among them, so none have enough power to function.

The real reason it's a stupid idea is that the USB 3.0 bus speed (0.62 GB/s) is slightly worse than SATA3's bus (0.75 GB/s), and both are peanuts compared to M.2's PCIx bus (128 GB/s). If someone's stupid enough to not get an SSD, they should get a PCIx RAM disc card and recycle semi-obsolete DIMMs into a super-SSD.

Now you can stop that insanity. Don't be a gamer hoarder.

It's a gradual process. Usually people build off of other's work.

My 2008 HDD just werks. Had to replace it though.

>*SNAP*

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You have a 1 TB SSD yet you run your games from a hard drive? You fucking retard.

It'd be nice if the prices dropped more.

CLICK CLICK PULL

>rattle rattle rattle
Windows: I bring portents of dread

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Once you do try it you can never go back. I already have three SSDs in my desktop, and even though my new laptop came with an M2 SSD I also replaced its mechanical drive with a Samsung EVO.
Back your shit up in a good ol' pile of platters and make the switch already.

I've gotten two SSDs really cheap from sales, just want a larger one for media storage since hdds can be unreliable

I'm thinking of getting an external hard drive soon. What brand should I get?

DO YOU WANT IT

AN OBESE MAN NAMED FRANCIS

AND HE WANTS IT BACK

>all pins still in place
meh

holy shit yikes

Stop buying seagate or Toshiba, problem solved.

Recover them?

My HDD started clickin' last year but I'd slapped it a bit and it stopped. Gonna be 10 years old this year.

Not him but I'm not gonna go into some fucking computer repair shop for them to dig up my hentai

Can confirm, my 1TB Toshiba DT100something crapped out within like a year
Replaced it with a WD Black and it's been running 100% fine for close to 4 years now

Get a USB with Linux mint.
Mount it.
Click Disks.
Copy/paste your stuff.

>HDD is damaged
Open Testdisk instead the disk utility.
Select your folder and where you want your stuff copied.
Done.

never had a hard drive break on me my entire life

No you silly willy. I archive the games I'm not playing and keep a few games on the SAD that I actively play.

how can you guys be so fucking dumb, you're young
at least your incompetence and retardness is what gives me money

>I was unlucky with this brand and was lucky with this one
>CAN CONFIRM IT'S BETTER

use full disc encryption

Not him but.
Seagate is total shit like you have no idea, only their Ironwolf line is decent but still not good. also they are the only brand known for FUCKING DESTROYING THE WHOLE PLATTER.
WD makes good drives when it comes to Blue and Reds.
HGST drives are good.
Toshiba drives are decent but still fail with time.

my WD black has been crunching and lurching since i bought it 4 years ago, still working perfectly

>tfw your seagate 1tb is still running after 6 years

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After exhentai got temporarily nuked I've been saving up to build a NAS.

SSD are still too expensive, I only have one of 240GB and it's not enough for all my gamez, meanwhile my HDD is almost full of hentai so I need to buy a new one.

same bro.
Loud but works good

just ask her for some more

1TB SU800 was $80 for a while, too bad Korea and Japan are starting shit that will mess with SSD prices.

Time's running out, my seagate 1tb just destroyed itself after running for something like 6-7 years

You can get a 500GB Crucial MX500 for like 60 bucks, 1 TB for around 100 or 110

>1 TB for around 100 or 110
meanwhile you could get at least 4tb of hdd for that price

Capacity>Speed

Yes and?

>5400 RPM blocks your path

different use cases, ssd is only a must for system drive
data hoarding on ssds is stupid

my HDD has been clicking for a year now. but, it's fine and fast. is this a meme?

A worn HDD will start clicking because there are read errors, doesn't mean it will fail right away but means it is failing.
Grinding is normal too with worn HDDs, there is nothing wrong with grinding though.

Yes, and the SSD will be three to four times faster which is what you want in a game. If 1TB is not enough to hold your entire steam library just move whatever games you're not playing and not planning to play to a storage HDD.

it's either a meme or these people are as computer literate as my grandma, and she's dead

>my old HDD was constantly making crunchy noises like some fucking machinegun electric guitar
>have been using it for 10 years
Wait, so it's not normal?

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yes

got my seagate still running after 10 years with daily use. I've only heard of their 3 TB drives having abnormally high fail rates but from my personal experience anything up to 2TB are fine.

You are up to luck with seagate drives, but with most HDDs atleast fail in a way you can recover your fucking stuff, with seagate if dies that is it.
Example.
youtube.com/watch?v=6b0JcNqkZrk

HDD are like car brakes. If they are cheap they always make noises and it's normal. if they are normal but you hear screeching noises its time to panic

Hard drives make noises because they have moving parts. Yes, it is normal.
If they make a sound you think is not normal then you fire up some diagnostics and testing programs and they'll tell you if something's wrong or about to go wrong.

What's the difference between normal and m2 SSDs?

If its always been making noises its fine.
If it suddenly starts to make noises its fucked.

normal SSD's plug into the SATA connector that HDD's use, so they're the same size as HDDs. m2 SSD's are much smaller (basically same size and shape as a stick of gum) and plug into a different connector. Outside of that I think they have the same performance.

Nothing when it comes to SATA.
M2 is just a form factor, there are M2 SATA and M2 NVMe.
M2 SATA is exactly the same than 2.5" SATA.
M2 NVMe is not limited by the speeds of SATA since it works through PCIe.

There is literally no performance difference between a SATA and NVMe SSD when it comes to windows and OS use, only when it comes to server, editing and enterprise use.

>literally no performance difference between a SATA and NVMe SSD when it comes to windows and OS use
Bus speed.

It's a negligible difference

Friendly reminder that if your external HDD starts clicking, see if it's a problem with the USB port or the cord first.

>2019
>Still using HDD's
Even if you built a NAS why wouldn't you use SSD's? They're the same price now, quieter and vibrate less

>just stick SD cards into random USB splitters lmao

128 gigs of RAM, dedicated RAMdisk of 64 gigs, and a RAID 0 configuration using 2tb SSDs with a home server of say 10 drives in RAID 1 configuration

Yeah, though it's not "literally no difference". Between that, a tighter form factor, and equivalent price, M.2 should be the preferred interface for SSDs.

They're not the same price relative to storage space, and they die way faster.

>They're the same price now
But that's wrong.

It’s not 2011

>they die way faster
Stop perpetuating this myth. Modern SSDs will outlive everything else in your computer. muh write limit doesn't apply for regular consumers.

It took 3 years of stress testing 24/7 to kill a 850 EVO, and it died after 9PB writes.
They don't die faster.

>they die way faster
If you save terabytes everyday they will start failling in a couple of decades.

No excuses.

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They're already pretty cheap. 1TB for $100.

I haven't owned any seagate laptop drives but I was going to buy the 2tb version of that one so I guess I dodged a bullet there. For their 3.5 inch hdds however, I opened some up that I had used for around 7-8 years but the platters were fine. When black friday rolls around, I'm thinking about getting a 4tb WD blue just to try it out.

I don't buy it. My friend had 2 SSDs die in the past decade and he wasn't even using them that much. Meanwhile my HDD is still going strong after 6 years.

>and it died after 9PB writes
lmao, and the advertised TBW limit is 75
My OS 850 EVO is at barely 17 TB after 4 and a half years, even if the death number really is 75 it would take another 15 years to kill it

Yes.
>Shitty controller
>Mystery meat TLC NAND
>Literally the worst SSD in the market
>Known for failing
>Its the next version V300 which was the worst scam ever from Kingston yet

Atleast post a WD Green or a SU650.

3D NAND saved SSDs in simple words.
Old intel MLC SSDs from the 2011 era died after 3 years of use.

Your friend probably had garbage quality shit from garbage brands. Buy Samsung or Crucial.
Or you can keep being paranoid for no reason even when solid and objective evidence that SSDs will last very long is readily available.

I'm just letting people know that "SSDS ARE EXPENSIVE REE" is an outdated meme.

Also, that exact same drive has been fine so far in my PS3, but then again, I bought this cheap son of a bitch because it was going into a PS3. It definitely beats the 5400RPM 12 year old HDD I yanked out of it either way

Kingston aren't recommended for SSD? They're fine for SD cards. What about Sandisk?

For the amount of drive space an SSD has compared to an HDD, they are very expensive. I'll start agreeing with you when SSDs are of similar space to HDDs while also being similar in price.

They are if you want more space and lots of game stored. But only for the OS and key software they're cheap and everyone that isn't using is wrong.

>WD Green
I remember those being notoriouis for failure as HDD's, I'm honestly surprised they'd make an SSD version after such a reputation

I've been shopping around but I don't know which brands are good can someone help?

>I want better performance for the same price

Samsung is best. Crucial and Sandisk aren't bad.

The only recommended brads when it comes to SSDs are Samsung, Crucial and ADATA in that order.
WD SSDs are a mix of Sandisk rebrands and ok SSDs.
Sandisk is ok but not exactly good for the price(Avoid SSD Plus model).
Kingston is the worst brand currently, worse than the Chinese brands(Kingdian and Mushkin).
PNY is a "Bad brand" too.

And Kingston SDs have never been good, they are slow and shit in general, not PNY tier when it comes to durability but not worth their price, Samsung and Sandisk are the good options.

That is because making good cheap SSDs is not hard, you get a $1 SM2258 controller, your TLC NAND of choice and that is it, this is exactly what you find in all cheap DRAMLess SSDs except the shit ones.

Yes, but I'm mostly advocating for having your OS on solid state memory. Most shit like images, music, movies etc. can be stored on a dumbass HDD no problem. Then you put your rendering software, CS, file packaging software etc. on your SSD

So what exactly CAN you do if your hard drive starts clicking? Anything recoverable?

samsung crucial adata wd hp intel

>That is because making good cheap SSDs is not hard
I meant from a marketing perspective, maybe kids won't know of the WD Green legacy but every 20 year old boomer knows and is likely to opt for an alternative, you know just in case
I'm not even sure what you'd want an "eco" SSD for anyway compared to a HDD

okay what about hdd?

>HP

They just reused the WD Green name so people can know which SSDs use SLC and which ones use DRAM cache.

>if I'm careful enough I can get the pins safely into the cable.
>2 years later, time to upgrade stuff
>break a pin
>too inexperienced to solder
>cut open sata cable and tape to pins
>start transfer to new drive
>accidentally kick it breaking more pins
>cut open ssd to get more contact area and tape again
>start transfer again
>accidentally kick it again
Lost most of my animus, hentai, and jav(quite few MUM that are no longer seeded).

How do you accidentally kick a SSD twice?

hitachi

He had Kingston, didn't he?

ex900 series is fine, not sure about sata.

What happens when an SSD fucks up? You just boot your PC one day and Windows is corrupted beyond repair?

How did you manage to commit the same mistake three fucking times?

Tfw motherboard died today. I'm RMAing it but now I'm afraid the power supply or ram caused it.

Depends on the scope of the corruption. If it dies completely, you will need to do some serious effort to recover data from it. If it "sort of" breaks, you could solve it by just installing OS on a different hdd and then plugging it in as a slave and transferring data from it. Some files may or may not be corrupted.

I mean it still wouldn't be a super huge deal if the OS SSD in my laptop crapped out; it's a rather small drive (120 GB) so I keep most things in the second SSD and in external HDDs. And I have a system image of the windows install I could install into a replacement drive

I had it outside of the case on the floor. The way I had to tape the pins wouldn't allow the cable to make proper contact if it was inside the case.

It turned out to be a good thing though. I no longer hoard porn I will never watch or waste bandwidth. Now I jack off to my imagination. Any kind of porn now feels like a chore to get through.

>Now I jack off to my imagination
I wish I could get that ability back.

I've never laughed this hard at a Yea Forums post

Start a 2 week+ nofap, you will regain the ability to do it really fast.

I don't use SSDs because I'm poor and I need lots of space for the least amount of money possible.

>120G
>SATA
>Kingston
it's red flags all over the place

nothing inherently wrong with 120G SATA

>only 4TB
I'm sitting on 14 here.

where my chads at?

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WD don't die, simple as that.

Thanks to SSD works, yes there are multiple problems.
Slower read and write.
Way lower durability and this is a shitty DRAMLess SSD already.

They do die but atleast they tell you they are dying before it happens.

>desktop MOBO doesn't have M2
>laptop has M2 but only supports SATA
Is NVME speed even that useful for normie use anyway? SATA 3 SSDs are already fast as shit for what I do

>They do die but atleast they tell you they are dying before it happens.
I mean, the two 3TB HDDs I use for storing animu have been fine for the last...I think 7 years now

NVME for OS and frequently used apps
SS for less frequently used apps
2 bigass cheap platters in RAID for backups on a separate machine

I bought this and noticed no difference in anything

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My hard drive has been scratching and clicking and making the most retarded noises for like 3 years now and all I get is the occasional crash.

Why is it the more advanced things get, he more prone to failure they are. My grandfather's pocketwatch from 1906 still works perfectly.

i never had a failed drive since i had my first pc lol

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Just ran the performance benchmark in Samsung Magician on both my 850 EVO 120GB and 860 EVO 500GB
>850 120G: 540 read/513 write
>860 500G: 552 read/519 write
Not a massive difference

Yes I know your point was that Kingston is garbage and had nothing to do with Samsung, just saying

We live in a society where consumerist culture makes people think stuff has to be replaced every few years, and in fact many things are designed to stop working after a few years. Your grandfather's pocketwatch was designed to outlive any humans alive at the time.

no, just buy whatever has the better warranty at a decent price.

Planned obsolescence added into products.

I've had one but it was a secondary hdd with just games and porn in it so it was no biggie

I've had normal HDDs fail but never my external ones.

Isn't it like $50 for half a TB?

SSDs became dirt cheap about 2 years ago.

That is because the controller fixes that problem.
The controller alone is what makes samsung SSDs so good and expensive.

Its partly luck
I happened to buy a HDD that was one of the most frequently failing units.

Fair enough
I did also run the same Magician benchmark on the kingston SSD in my laptop and the speeds there were in the realm of 430

>HDD starts clicking on startup, won't boot
>get all data off the drive, it's about to fucking die
>suddenly one day stops having issues and is back to running normally

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Welcome to sector remapping.

Because it's not having to access the majority of the drive.

It has 0 bad sectors

Because that is what sector remapping does.

More efficient use means smaller parts; smaller parts mean lower tolerances. Being able to improve performance while keeping the same failure rate as the previous generation is an achievement in itself. There's some intersection between cost to manufacture, rate of failure, and performance which is aimed for, so placing more weight on reducing failure means removing weight from performance and affordability.

If it fails once it's going to fail again and you're better off replacing it no matter what.

Its absolutely retarded to store media on an ssd like movies or porn. SSD drives still have a similar or lower life span than an average quality. They are great for installing programs and games but a waste for media storage.

No matter what you use you need back ups for the important shit.

I still run spinning metal because my motherboard doesn't take in the newer SSD connector. So I either have to buy an old SSD that'll be obsolete once I get a few computer. Gay.

any given moment because seagate

Not sure what you mean, wouldn't SMART report something's fucky? Says everything's OK

Sector remapping means that bad sectors will be removed so the HDD can work normally again, this only can happen when you write to your HDD.

The second you remove everything and start writing on it again it will slowly start fixing stuff.
And SMART wont report damaged sectors, only bad sectors that are gone for good.

This is why running a write test with badblocks revives a huge amount of drives and why sometimes bad sectors disappear.

Your spinning metal likely uses SATA3, the same as regular 2.5 inch SSDs which are 3-4 times faster than any hard drive. Just because you can't use a 3700MB/s NVME drive doesn't meant you can't use SSDs at all.
Even running an SSD on a SATA2 port would make things go quicker than on your metal plates.

Smart is good but wont get everything. Doing a detailed sector scan of the drive will show exactly how many bad sectors it has. Be warned a 2tb drive can take a good 5 hours or longer to scan.

Having a few bad sectors especially on an older drive isnt a big deal. But if you have a lot even though the drive works for now the drive is likely to fail soon. In this case cease using the drive and immediately back up the data asap.

>Doing a detailed sector scan of the drive will show exactly how many bad sectors it has
How would I go about doing this?

>Linux
Badblocks.

>Windows
HD Tune and HDD sentinel can do read only tests but its not the same.

Who Winchester 32 GB master race?
Still play AoE2 in my old k6.

It's such a horrifying thing to experience.

HDD scan can tell you how many bad blocks you have. Western digital supposedly has a tool that checks its drives for bad blocks but last time I used it just reported if it was fine or not. Not telling me how many bad blocks there are.

toolbox.iskysoft.com/data-recovery-tips/hard-disk-bad-sector-removal-software.html
There are a bunch of free tools that can be used to scan for bad sectors and windows itself can also do it but it kind of sucks now so I wouldn't bother with the windows version.

>implying SSD's dont die faster than HDD's
oof yikes ouch

i have an old drive that clicks in a synchronized way every 3-4 seconds, what would be the best way of saving the data on it? the data seems to access when i browse it but it'll freeze up regularly when opening an image

help

>he fell for the SSDs die faster meme

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Copy/paste it to another drive.
Learn to make backups(which is as simple as just buying another drive).

when it comes to HDD failure one thing people must understand that usage is a concern. A drive that has a OS and a bunch of games installed on it and other programs is not likely to last as long as the drive where media is simply stored and not accessed too often.

Likewise drives that get bumped around while reading or writing or more likely to have problems. This mostly just effects laptops and other portable devices.

Rather than waiting until your drives fail its simply best to preemptively replace them when they start getting old. And keep back ups of the data that is hardest to replace. Back up drives generally last a good long while than ones in constant use.

>Copy/paste it to another drive.
i stopped using the drive the second it started happening out of fear of it being destroyed and thinking doing that would have a chance of all the data being lost since i'm pretty ignorant

I kicked my PC with all my force while it was on but only the old, shitty HDD started clicking, unlike my SSD (w/ OS) where nothing changed. Old technology is so shit.

seagate has been just as good as WD for a while now

you are correct the data could be lost. But all you can do is copy data over. I suggest going straight for the data you care about most and then go from there. Do not try and clone the entire drive or copy overly large chunks of data. Also do not queue up multiple separate copy paste operations at once either.

There is really nothing else you can do. there is no fixing the drive if its doing the clicking thing with out doing it in a damn clean room. If a drive fails entirely a data recovery specialist can pull most the data from the platters but you will likely be paying at least a thousand dollars for that.

If you wanna be paranoid then use testdisk.

SSD have no moving parts and not effected by movement. They fail in other ways like the fact that they can tolerate way less writes than a HDD platter can and that sort of thing. Theres also the fact you can get a 2 tb drive for the cost of a 500-600 gb SSD so they are worse for people with lots of data.

There is no perfect storage solution they have all have pros and cons but in the end if the data is that damn important it needs to be backed up.

If an SSD fucks up expect to lose everything. They're complicated and proprietary and full of hacks. A well made SSD can last a very long time, but once it falls over you likely can't salvage anything

My laptop's hard drive crashed recently. Is there any way to fix it, or at least salvage my files?

>SSD survives kicking
>HDD immediately fucks up
We can clearly see what can test the sands the time.

user it's so very very worth it. They're sinking in price all the time, buy a small drive, I'm sure there's a couple 64gb out there for your OS and stuff you play all the time, small MMO or league or dota or something like that. It's such a difference. You think you won't notice it, but you will.

my WD 1tb still runs from 2009 though?

>I'm sure there's a couple 64gb out there for your OS and stuff you play all the time
64GB isn't big enough for an OS and just one game these days.

just out of curiosity is it a black? I have one form 2010 still going.

not but wal-mart had a 500GB western digital SSD on sale for 60 the other day. Its a Sata drive which is inferior the NVME but its still more than fine for installing an OS and games on.

I bought a a samsung 500GB evo 860 (Sata) for $90 the other day and I don't think it was even on sale. point is you can get a drive big enough for a few games and the OS for under $100. If you have enough Sata ports you can just buy the damn drives when on sale and just keep expanding. I have 1 NMVE SSD, 2 Sata and 2 mechanical HDD's in my rig.

it's the black mybook they sold back in 2009

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well by black I meant the model of drive not the color of the case. still its pretty good.

That is a Red then.

>Had five 1TB Seagate drives die within three years of usage somehow.
>Only one to actually survive longer than that was my internal 40GB PS3 one.
Seagate stole all my backup data because I received a 2TB external as a gift, started moving everything to it because I was afraid my internal was going to die, and then the external literally died during the moving process. I was unbelievably mad and still have it just on the off chance I can somehow revive it which I don't believe will ever happen.

Do they die faster or not?
I ironically had both my SSD and HDD die at the exact same time. I think the PSU got OD'd from the power line and fucked them up.

wow that fucking sucks that would practically ruin me, maybe I should get an external

Yeah you do that. I kept a backup of the actual useful stuff on a 32GB USB and then just plugged it back in when I replaced both storage units.

Can you recover an encrypted drive?

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You will lose everything if you power it off for too long

>Do they die faster or not?
Probably, but it's not meaningful. Nobody can predict the lifespan of ANY drive. There's a reason people say merely "SSD don't last as long as magnetic drives." instead of "SSD will only last 5 years but a magnetic drive will last 20 years." The latter statement might actually mean something to you but the former is just FUD. What can you do with "X doesn't last as long as Y"? What if X lasts 1000 years but Y last 10,000? What the fuck does the difference in that lifespan matter to you?

>3Tb HDD full of porn dies
is there even any reason to live after this?

Seagate is probably better than WD now desu. WD went to shit after buying Sandisk and then they went on to kill Hitachi.

Anyone involved in data recovery will tell you otherwise.
My PC-3000 paid itself really fast thanks to them.

Well that's true. I'll try one of those external SSDs and see how it goes, since my previous external HDDs always seem to die from my hardcore commuting
Honestly that's the best that can happen to you. And if you liked that porn on a personal level you'll remember the name and find it on some other site with garbage translation and resolution while the HD scans you had are lost forever.

>SAIL
youtube.com/watch?v=KclRiK-L-_4

>PC-3000
>check their website
>have to fill up a form to get them to send you any info
Fuck you niggers you ain't Siemens. How much was it?

The idea of losing it is worse than the experience actually is. I know this for a fact. It's just hoarding. You don't miss things you don't actually use and porn is trivial to replace.

$5,600.
My job paid most of it though.
The DFL-SRP is like $10,000 so its not that expensive.

1 nvme and 2 2tb ssds now

I have abandoned HDDS besides my pic storage

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Eh, I always thought that. I mean it's porn, just find more, right? So I only backed up files I made, because I could just re-download anything else.
But I had a scare where I thought the collection HD died. It came back on boot but thinking all that stuff was gone fucking sucked, probably because my tastes are kinda niche, and a lot of that stuff I knew I'd never find again. So I'm glad for that warning desu because I back up that shit now.

It's not a backup if you moved it. In the end you still have one copy and you lost that one copy.

please no

What's the simplest software to clone my drive? I just want a literal copy of it to another drive so when mine dies I can just swap it and it's like I never lost it

It was backups of stuff I had on my regular machine like save files and I moved images and videos off. It was basically half and half and then I was going to get another one to use as a backup of that drive but obviously it didn't pan out. I would like to get some redundant drive backups just in case but I'm a digital hoarder so that's not exactly the easiest thing to justify.

>Have an old 300GB hard drive that was clicking for years
>Kept using it for unimportant extra storage
>Upgrade PC parts
>Laying the PC case on its side was all it took for the hard drive trays to finally fail for good
>The hard drive that failed was the newer main drive that hadn't shown any issues previously
>old clicky boy still going strong

10 years strong bby

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dd

>*click*

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>both hard drives are WD

>this is going in to the cringe folder

>My HDD started clickin' last year but I'd slapped it a bit and it stopped
if i slapped it into clicking, can i slap it out of clicking?

>"MISSION FAILED, WE'LL GET EM NEXT TIME"

>upgrade to all SSD storage
>get informed that M.2s are the new hotness
well at least nobody seems to have those yet (or install games on them at least) so I'm not at much of a disadvantage

You could try Windows' Disk Management's Mirror function. Presumably it maintains a constant duplicate of a main drive for redundancy's sake.

No issues here, senpai.

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Punished Majima

bro, the panda is back

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>G4600
>No ECC with ZFS
RIP.

>M.2
You mean NVMEME?

I never did check to see if the Kaby Pentiums supported ECC. It's only a media server anyway. Not a huge loss if a few bits got flipped.

excuse me

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did you use xnconvert to make them all jpgs?

Reminder to make a backup of your reaction image folder.
Nothing sadder than losing years of shitposting.

aaaaaa...I don't think I'm gonna make it bros...

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>lost everything between 2005-2011 because of a virus

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I never caught under what circumstances it's back, like did the guy rehost it after enough bitching or is it in other hands now?

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Sounds easy to fix.

TLDR: Moldova host saved us with a long term contract.

Hell it's true. I wonder how long it'll last.
I'd already moved on. Guess I'll visit for good ol' times sake.

not easy to fix when its a cluster virus that corrupts files. Was a dumb teen so I had no idea what I was doing

how fat are you

>Having less than 10 TB of total storage
>Not keeping local copies of all your favorite porn
>Not keeping local copies of all your favorite shows/movies/music since you'll """always""" be able to stream everything
>Not keeping a backup of your data, and multiple separate backups for your porn
>Not encrypting your backups and uploading them to a cloud service in case your house burns down/floods/dindus steal your shit to sell the rare hentais on the black market
ISHYGDDT

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It's literally too big to fail. Anons volunteered both work/time and donated money to get a new host and continue work on the site. Anons call each other faggots and niggers all day, but they will come together as a unified force to protect anime tiddies and kawaii lolis.
Through dick, unity.

Actually the reason its still running is because certain someone involved with Madokami that doesn't like to get mentioned got a deal with a host in Maldova for 10b.
ATF was revived this way too.

No money or someone else was involved.

Funny how that sudden flood of "gamer" posts on every board instantly vanished when ATF and panda came back.

Oh they word filtered the phrase to gamer, kek.

It's still going to die just like baka desu senpai

>turn pc on
>it won't detect the monitor, mouse and keyboard
motherboard is fucked isn't?

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AM3+ motherboard?

>See this thread.
>Have HDD thats 7 years old
>wondering when its gonna die
its too soon

Does your Mobo have a beeper/POST lights?

>slows down to slower than a diskette if you fill it up

my SSD failed and was much worse than my HDD failing as it just failed one day randomly and i couldn't do anything.

Honestly have sex should have been filtered months ago.

are you retarded? none of this helps for a dead drive

can you detect a dying drive with crystaldisk? Or does the clicking happen randomly?

Yes, and yes but not exactly.

>it won't detect the monitor
>mouse and keyboard
How do you know if doesn't detect mouse/keyboard if the monitor is off? you mean your mouse/keyb lights doesn't receive any power when plugged in?
anyway for the monitor:

do you have a GPU installed? try different display ports on it, if none work then try taking the GPU out and then try connecting to the on-board displays. If those don't work either then your board is RIP. As a last resort try swapping around or removing RAM modules, rarely a solution but sometimes a faulty stick is the cause for system booting weird shit

Heh nothing personel

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>Old drive died years ago
>Just gave me a message it was going to die soon and back it up, died 10 minutes later so no chance
>Put it in an Antistatic Bag in my mom's house and left it
>Only really want it for some old screengrabs of skype sex I had back then

What are the chances of me being able to recover it on my own?

You could try the freezer trick or wait until you're rich enough to send it to a data recovery place.

You know the freezer trick is fake right?
Its the toothpaste to fix CDs equivalent.

I've never had a raid setup before. Do you get a prompt of any kind when one of the harddrives has died or do you need to occasionally check the status of your harddrives on your own? I really do feel like I'm playing with fire the way I run my computer. I haven't had a harddrive failure in so long.

This is why I invested in SSDs.
Had a bunch of stuff on an old HDD and it just started clicking to hell and back and then suddenly ceased functioning.
Lost years worth of stuff from it, but that was because I was young and naive to the clicking. I knew it was dying, but didn't know it would do that.

They have dropped though in recent years.
3 years ago I would have said this but recently checking around for new hardware has me looking at some possible upgrades in the not-so-distant future. (2TB for $185 at best buy atm. waiting for prices to get slashed, come November)

>check amazon for 4tb hdd
>second result in list is the same model of seagates with the highest failure rate
>check more 4tb hdd
>price goes from 80 dollars to 200 based on the brand
good lord what do i buy

Are all HDDs that are multiple TBs noisy?
I tried a 4tb WD black that has some shitty "feature" thats a thunk noise every few seconds, even when idle, and returned it because it made a terrible grinding noise when in use.
Now I have a 3tb Hitachi that isn't nearly as loud, but is still a bit noisy.
I've been wondering because the other drives I've used in the past only really make noise when spinning up.

What do you need all of that space for? Unless you're a video editor dealing with raw uncompressed video, I don't think you need 4TB of space at any given time.

>4TB SSDs
>using SSDs for media
But why user? Even 5400rpm HDDs are fine for media and they're far cheaper.

>he doesn't hoard anime and movies

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If you're in US I highly recommend WD 8/10TB drives. The trick is to buy externals which regularly go on sale for far cheaper than internals for whatever reason, then shuck them.
Look at WD easystore (best buy), my book and elements (amazon, newegg etc). $130 for 8TB and $160 for 10TB is a pretty normal sales price these days, feels like I see them every couple of weeks.

Hoarding. Storage is so cheap and the internet is getting so fragile that hoarding is a pretty good idea these days.

I don't really rewatch anime and movies. if I wanted to rewatch anything, I could redownload it in no time off of IRC or private torrent website

those easy sources won't be around forever
a lot of my shit is super super old rips/fansubs that are probably going to be nowhere to be found after people stop seeding

Since all the rumors are finally pointing to the next generation of consoles being the first to come with SSDs, does that mean they're finally going to drop in price or is the increased demand that the consoles generate only going to raise the prices more?

What is better in the ling run? Making your own nas from old pc ir buying dedicated hardware with low power consumption?

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>only 180gb
Nigger I have about 2 tb

XDCC bots die out or stop hosting stuff too, especially for older content. AB is great for old stuff right now but I doubt private trackers will last forever. If AB goes down we're pretty much fucked.
I agree on movies though.

I want to get very large HDDs and hoard everything after the sadpanda fiasco.

What's the longest you've hard a HD last, Yea Forums? My old computer's HD lasted 11 years. I finally got rid of it when the MOBO and PSU died. When I told people I didn't have to replace the HD for 11 years they didn't believe it. I just got lucky I guess.

Really the only bad things you're going to run into with old pc parts lying around is power usage, performance, and expandability. None of these are a big deal when you're just starting out, so I'd say cobble together old pc parts and see how you like it, then look into newer parts when you need them.

People like you are the first to shit themselves when something like that inevitably goes down.

Most of those aren't SSDs, that's just speccy freaking out. The only SSDs I have are those two samsung evo drives.

Do it user, nothing comfier than the feeling of having a giant local collection of all your favorites.

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Never had one actually die, I have an old WD mybook that started getting clicky and grindy but even that still works.
I typically take a daily use HDD out of service after 5 years to be safe, and I back up data on drives that are just written to and stored in cases.

Yep. I have 2 WD 4tb drives, one for anime, manga and movies and the other for games and music. It's great having everything readily available.

My only problem is trying to sort them properly. I feel retarded for thinking about doing this, but to make the experience more like the website I might need to create a notepad file or something and name it with my top tags that are in the doujin.

>Running on Silicon Power SSD
Should I be worried lads?

>falling for the ECC with ZFS meme

My old HDD is clicking very hard sometimes even though it shouldn't even be active. It used to never sound at all and only wirr up when I actually tried to access it. I keep only downloaded files on it. What the hell is going on? It starts wirring a lot when I browse the net. The CPU and GPU loads are normal. Thought perhaps it was bitminers, but to my understanding, it affects the CPU.

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thanks user maybe external hdd is the solution for hoarding all i need.also the speed of usb 3.0 is 625mb/s and sata 3 is 600mb so is even faster??does your experience confirm this or is a bunch of bullshit?
also never had an external hdd so i just place it above the pc case or??

You can setup email notification.

I just spent like $60 for half so yeah about.

Loving every laugh

>AB is great for old stuff right now but I doubt private trackers will last forever. If AB goes down we're pretty much fucked.

AB is shit for old stuff, BBT has better retention and seeding for it. You're right though that you should have local hoards.

magnetic interference with similar information stored nearby. just delete all your backups and you should be good after a few weeks.

It's not like I keep all the trashy movies I've ever seen, but I could watch my favorites dozens of times and still not get tired of them.

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On the topic of not being able to find old stuff. I wish I could find those old encodes of anime. I remember when 26episode series like Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Outlaw Star would be about 4GB total. Now those same series are over 20GB and it isn't uncommon for movies to be over 20GB as well.

>mfw in 15 years of using 'puters I have never ONCE had any HDD failures
Feels good not being a retarded sperg that drops his HDDs in concrete floor.

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Bad troll
Are you gonna tell me to delete system32 next?

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Yeah I use the best Windows OS available right now, how could you tell?

Why don't you just reencode existing rips if you care so much? There's a reason Cowboy Bebop/Trigun/Outlaw Star are over 20GB and it's because they don't look like ass.

Anime doesn't compress as well as faggot normal TV/Movie garbage because of how it visually looks, you'd notice artifacts a lot quicker on anime than you would on other media. Also I'm pretty sure the shows you just listed all have full BD remasters.

Here in EU it costs twice as much. It's like 1gb=1$ or so.

One of my HDD's is making a brief loud grinding noise once every few hours. This has been going on all week.

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It's possible that one of your fans is making that sound when it kicks on. While it could very well be a warning of harddrive failure and you should take necessary precautions, keeping your PC free of dust will prevent it from overheating and making loud fan noises so often.

>have PC I've been using off and on for 15 years and the only thing that's ever failed are two mice
It randomly BSODs once in a blue moon, but otherwise works completely fine.

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I've literally never once cleaned it, either.

I hope you're backing up your data. Someone's backing it up. It ain't you.

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Pick your favorite, no reason to organize manually:
gitgud.io/Nagru/Manga-Organizer
github.com/Difegue/LANraragi
github.com/happypandax/happypandax
See sadpanda general on /h/ for more resources.

>SSD drives

Ironically proper encodes of older anime is larger than modern digital anime because of grain. You should consider 720p if you want to save space. Keep in mind most digital anime was mastered at 720p or below anyways.

>Keep in mind most digital anime was mastered at 720p or below anyways.

Not true, there's a site that shows the mastered source but it escapes me at the moment. There's a decent few shows that master above 720p.

>You should consider 720p if you want to save space.

Space has never been cheaper, there's literally no reason to get the best quality you can.

>tfw I got 3 separate 1 tb drives and keep buying them
Should I go for larger models? Scared of 5400 RPM.

anibin.blogspot.com/
I should have clarified, most older digital anime was mastered

I have almost 2 TB of shit on a single 2 TB hard drive and no back ups yet (quickly searching for a hard drive as of now)

If my drive fails and i lose all my shit i will fucking kill myself. life isn't worth living without my massive collection of porn games and rare scat porn.

Yes, higher capacity is more efficient for $/TB, power usage and drive slot usage. 8/10TB externals are the sweet spot these days.
5400rpm is fine for media and can still saturate a gigabit connection.

>I agree but I also hate to waste space, with low res masters and shitty upscales of SD anime, 1080p isn't always the best option.

For sure, people I know who hoard anime tend to have the best release of each medium for an anime (LD, DVD, BD, Web, etc) if it exists. If space was even cheaper I'd love to do an anime hoard of raw images. Actual raws, not rips.

>massive collection of porn games >2TB drive

Go check out /hgg/ on /jp/ or /hgg2d/ on /vg/, there are anons there with H-game hoards upwards of >10TB

really puts things into perspective. i thought i could get lost in my shit but i'm just a drop in the fucking bucket compared to that.

Nope

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Still running with daily usage

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Never understood hoarding. If I like something I just write it down and redownload it

mines be clicking for two years now and no back ups

>tfw my main hdd with priceless data up and died
>tfw way too many incriminating evidence on it to send it to pros for data retreival

for me its autism and being scared of something being removed from the internet forever. i have rare scat porn some of which cost $70 per 1 hour 30 minute tape. the place i pirated them has long since had them deleted and i don't know where else to find them if i wanted them again.

Mines been clicking for years, nothing had happened m And yes lve backed up most of my shit

Some shit I have on my hdd can't be found anywhere anymore.

The only thing you need to back up are your game saves and your passwords. That's it. Everything else, you can always re-download. There is nothing on the internet you can't re-download.

Not him, but games are like 150GB nowadays. I can't fit everything on a 1TB SSD.

Complexity and reliability are often directly opposite.
A 1911 gun which consists in three curved plates and a spring is unlikely to ever fail whereas all the meme Sci fi guns that have been proposed over decades for replacing the m16 design can't pass reliability tests.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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This, compare a shock baton to a wooden stick. The shock baton can run out of energy, it can burn out, it could even explode in your own hand. If the wooden stick breaks, you have 2 wooden sticks. It depends on the situation of course, but in general less things that CAN go wrong means less things go wrong.

I havent made a backup of anything since 2010. That drive was lost.
Come at me.

My house is rigged with live grenades and sawed off shotguns.

Dude theres so many rare pictures and videos and music and documents and files that are either no longer on the internet or too hard to find. Plus who can archive all that shit in their mind and remember where to find it?

Is there any software that will go through all your directories and write out all your filenames for every piece of media you have, so just in case something happens, at least you know what you downloaded?

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yes.

Assuming you didn't buy a chinese no-name PSU, any reputable PSU manufacturer offers damage reimbursement when a PSU directly damages components while operating under normal conditions.
Memory cannot kill motherboards. It either works and the motherboard posts or it doesn't work and the motherboard doesn't post. Try using one stick at a time on slot 1 to see if it's just one bad stick of RAM causing the issue.

I'm pretty sure I encrypted a folder (nothing illegal just jav with eels and bakki stuff) but I don't remember where is it or where did I hide it. How do I find the folder back? I want to delete it to make space.

you dont defrag an ssd. They have limited times they can be written over about 1000 to 5000 times. After that the cell starts to die. Most ssd have an over head capacity so a 150 gig ssd would have like 170 gigs instead to increase the life of it. Defrag it would just kill your ssd faster and wouldn't even offer any means of optimization.

Pi4 any good for a cheapass nas?

Not fucking seagate

i have 2 external western digital 4 tbs

how do you like that, fags?

dont call me a fag

this thread scared me, my hdd is like 10 years old and i still have nude pics from the only gf i ever had on it plus my favourite lewd 2D shit i saved over 10 years. what if it one day just becomes corrupted or something? i would literally kill myself

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Make backups by saving it to external harddrive or something, it's not that hard

Just buy an external drive and make some backups

what if a fire happens and the externals burn up?

>bought a WD external HDD to backup family pictures, videos and whatnot
>it fucking died
>all I did was connect it once every couple months and overwrite the previous backup, kept it in a closet otherwise
Good thing I still had everything on my pc, but seriously what's the point of an external HDD if they just die for no reason.

Cary the copy of your most favorite lewds. Encrypt the drive or something.

At some point you are going to die, so it won't matter.

Cloud.

But I don't want my lewds to be viewed by company servers

What if the cloud gets hacked?

nothing lasts forever user,
not lewds, not me, not you

embrace the temporality

what clouds you guys use?

>still falling for this shit
your SSD will probably last longer than you do
and even then you can still read from an SSD when it 'dies'

>have task manager open for reasons
>go for a shit
>come back to CPU at 100%
>move mouse and it drops back to normal

What exactly were the Russians stealing from me??

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bitcoins

>2 1TB M2 SSD's
>2TB HDD
>Newly purchased 4TB HDD

feels good not to be a storage cuck

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All SSD have outlived the most generous of estimates.
Not to mention they inform you when they are critical

It boots to BIOS windows will be gone

Take it out of the laptop and plug it to another ocmputer using a SATA to USB cable or a 2.5 drive enclosure, see if you can still grab files from it
unless by crashed you mean it's absolutely dead and won't even spin up when powered, in which case I hope you have backups of your shit

>It's like 1gb=1$ or so
Don't be ridiculous. I'm in the EU and the MX500 1TB is 110 eurodollars on Amazon.
Even a 1TB NVME Samsung costs only close to 500.

Take a look at this mediocre 500gb sdd: it costs 135€ in my country.

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>SSD
Enjoy your limited writes.

hey I agree that the price is retarded but that's a good SSD

>my HDD turns ten this year

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>mediocre
Samsung EVO are basically the best SSD you can get, dumbass.
Unless you write dozens of terabytes daily to an SSD, it'll last you decades.

Is there any real reason why SSDs are still so expensive in 2019 or is it just Judaism?

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They could be even more expensive and sheeple would still buy them.

They are better.

>DEJA VU

>he still thinks SSD's are a meme

I did it automatically one time and I can't be arsed to download win7 again

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>he kicks his SSD not once, not twice but THREE TIMES
how fucking retarded are you op. You'd think after the first time you'd learn to be more careful around your hardware

>that price
I bought a 1TB one with that money and I live in West Europe.

Of course they're better. I'm asking why they've barely dropped in price despite the technology being old news. If anything, HDDs should've been phased out completely by now. It just seems like manufacturers are artificially making SSDs seem more special than they actually are to milk it for all it's got instead of actually innovating.

>not having an SSD for OS, gameys and programs and 14TB HDD for pics, music and anime

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7 years on power and counting

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>this thread
>hey I should brag about my 50 000 hours uptime on WD Black 4TB
>open CrystalDiskInfo
>yellow
>Current Pending Sector Count 4
>Uncorrectable Sector Count 4
Holy shit, thanks guys. Dodged a bullet.

what does it mean

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>barely dropped in price
>have dropped in price by several orders of magnitude

It's making mustard gas.

>Have a Plex server
>Have like 8TB of movies, anime, etc on it.
>HDDs are a mix of stuff I bought in 2015/2016.
>Actual hardware is from 2011.
>I have no backups.
>Can tell everything is on its last legs.

I'm looking into my options on upgrading, but I have a ton of other costs in the meantime and it probably won't get upgraded until mid 2020 at this point. I want to build a NAS device that can backup both the server and my PC, but that is going to be at least another 1K on top of the server.

Dont buy western digital

Yeah, maybe the 250gb meme ones. We should have 5tb SSDs for under $100 by now. There is literally no reason for them to be so expensive nowadays.

My WD Black is going strong, close to 4 years now

My two Seagate Barracudas from 2011 still runs with vigor, what are you all doing since it bricks?

Damn, only powered this sucker on 408 times out of 9 years.

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>tfw something in my PC clicks every now and then
>not sure what it is
>this thread

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Guys, I keep getting Machine_Check_Exception BSODs

What do I do?

>Like if you were to plug sixty high-draw appliances into one power outlet, the power supply is divided equally among them, so none have enough power to function.
You god damn fucking retard. What actually happens is all the devices suck as many amps as they can and if it's not enough to trip the breaker, all that current going into one socket causes it to heat up, melt and catch fire (assuming the cable in the wall doesn't burn first).
user, not only are you a colossal faggot, you're a dangerous colossal faggot. Don't go giving anyone any more advice.

I've never had a WD fail. Seagate however can go fuck itself.

yee

>you share a site with people from countries that don't have fuses in their plugs
Does your tap water give you dysentery too?

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Did you upgrade from sata ssd? I was wandering about diminishing returns in disk speeds.

yes, lets back up (and restore) 24tbs of data

>Tfw HDD for like 6 years and no sign of any clicks

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Literally playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded cylinder

>but that is going to be at least another 1K on top of the server.

What the fuck are you buying? Most of the cost of your NAS server is going to be in the HDDs and you won't even need that many if you're already only dealing with a paltry 8TB of media.

user, should i continue translating and typesetting karaage works?
I stopped because i returned to manga but its a mess with group drama and i better work alone.

You can do that easily for only like $300 to $400. Your backup drives don't have to be in a RAID configuration. Stop making excuses when you have such a tiny amount of data.

Feels good man

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4 bay NAS enclousers are between $400-$600. Then add the drives in.

>4 bay NAS enclousers

So this is the kind of mouthbreather on Yea Forums. lol.

Get on my level. My HDDs aren't even connected to a power source and I just stuck them in a cool and dry drawer near my bed.

There are times when I'm just browsing Yea Forums and I hear a loud click coming from inside the drawer. Its so fucking scary I don't even know what's happening in there or why.

Explain faggot?

do it

You're getting swindled.

dont be too confident, i was in the same situation as you but mine completely crapped out while playing vidya, refused to operate again. I'd definitely backup soon

So find me a NAS for less than that price range. Or are you saying that buying a 4 bay NAS enclosure is bullshit, because why the fuck would you lock yourself into a 2 bay and have to eventually upgrade anyway.

my hard drive has always made some horrible noises. sounds like its grinding clicking tapping and just about to die even thought its only a couple years old. not had any real problem with it though.

Jesus Christ.

Allright then.

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you are embarrassing yourself

That would be XP x64.

The moment I read the OP one of my hard drives clicked, incredible!

Read S.M.A.R.T. info.
If picrel raw values are zero, you're still good.

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I wish

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>a 120gb ssd dedicated to OS
>a 500 gb ssd for vidya
>a 3TB hdd for general storage
>a portable 2TB hdd for backup and porn
Can't beat this comfiness

I have a harddrive in my pc that I've had for over 9 years and it's still works and has yet to show any symptoms of failing, I do use it nowadays just for storing Adobe Projects, and sometimes as a scratch disk when I've ran out of space on my SSD's, but when people scream about harddrives being unreliable idk wtf hey are on about, especially when in the 9 years I've only had ssd's failing.

You are backing up your shit right?
I don't want to lose my music folder!

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>12TB

Stop being fucking retarded.

>#
>yes, lets back up (and restore) 24tbs of data
I was referring to that post so you better not be the person I responded to or else you're retarded.
12x2=24

Is this the NAS retard again? What's with the amount of dumbasses in here?

>have a 1TB drive that has seen consistently heavy usage for 10 years now
I keep saying I'm gonna replace it soon but I'm almost morbidly curious as to how much longer it'll last for.

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Atleast make a backup of such drive.

???

I make regular backups so it's not a major thing I guess.

Just switch. Samsung 1TB SSDs are only around a hundred bucks now.

I started with 120GB SSD+1TB HDD thinking that would be enough, then I realized I needed more SSD space for games. So now I have three SSDs sizes 120, 250 and 500 (250 was still rather expensive when I got it, would have bought 500 otherwise), plus 1 TB HDD. And two laptop hard drives that I use as externals, 1TB+320GB.
My laptop has a 120 GB M2 and a 500GB sata SSD

I have everything backed up on Backblaze but I'm not excited to find out how it's going to be to restore 5TB of data from them.

>some guy I know comes to me with an external 4TB HDD
>his system won't recognize the drive when plugged in and he wants to save university work, pictures and all that shit
>plugging the drive in gets it already making some infernal roaring noise
>need to access the drive using a Linux machine since Windows won't even be able to figure out what the hell you just plugged in
>save the most important stuff, delete the partition table, reformat it on W10
>give everything back and recommend getting a new, smaller drive since he wasn't even using 10% of the available space
>he keeps using the drive anyway
Should I charge extra next time?

You should charge him for the new replacement drive too.

I gave him the same drive with the salvaged files back since it seemed to work fine after formatting, but told him to immediately dump that shit on his computer and get a new drive. Didn't listen

People will never listen if they can save even a penny.
That drive can become a problem for you later either as reputation or a client coming back to scream at you because you "didn't do a good job" if it fails later.

Oh not at all, I'm a sysadmin for a naval company as my day job, but I usually fix stuff for friends or friends' friends for some side income. This guy is an old friend who is too fucking retarded to listen to veteran advice

>Reading through this thread
>My main HDD is 8 years old and has been constantly so full of shit that I'm surprised it even runs anymore

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Start making backups pal, even if it doesnt die its good to have atleast 2.

dont fix whats not broken

>One of my 2TB HDDs fell and hit my chair about a month ago
>Now it isn't recognized on my PC and doesn't even show up so I can't clone it or pull anything off myself
>Might be able to get stuff if I take it to a shop but that's expensive and I have a lot of questionable shit on there in addition to the DQ collection

Is it even worth trying to salvage? I don't like people looking through my shit and I do have a backup for like 75% of what was on it.

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>clicking starts a few months ago
>after some time talk about it on one of the 20 svchost processes threads
>anons tell me it's the harddrive
>cmd tells me it's fine
>crystaldiskinfo tells me both the hdd and the ssd are fine
>still hear clicks, it's especially unnerving when it happens at night when the pc is off
>decide to flip the power switch and go to sleep
>the clicking is still there

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As long its not clicking its easy to fix.
Make a Linux mint USB.
Install testdisk.
Recover your stuff.

Friendly reminder to take the neodymium magnets off the drive before you trash it, and give the plates a few scratches while at it

My HDD died in 2016 with 8 years of service.

If it doesn't even show up indont think it's possible, is it?

It could be a loose cable hanging in your case, user

Not showing up in windows is not a big problem.
But if it doesnt show in Linux then how the hell did you trow it that you managed to kill the controller.

Windows is awfully picky with detecting devices, while Linux will be quicker to catch on new stuff being plugged in. You can use that to just save the stuff in it, reformat the drive, and then it'll work in Windows

offsite restores of multiple TB of data can take a week or more.
Most places mail hard drives with a 1:1 copy, then sync data every night.

Rebuilding a 32TB raid array is not plausible. Better to have your remote backup make a copy on fresh drives and send them to you.

Usually when this shit happens it stops showing up on bios/uefi too.
Also that has huge chances of a second unrecoverable read error

I have a Seagate drive a I've been using since 2007 and a WD drive I've been using since 2011. In my 15 or so years of being a PC fag, I've only had one HDD die on me.

Not just this, but the more parts you have, the more likely one is to fail. 8 drives all at once, odds are good that one will fail in a year or two. Pair that with Raid0 with no backups, where one part failing is all of them failing, you've set yourself up for failure.

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I got the TACHYON endpoint security Trojan and I have no way to get rid of it.
I refuse to boot my computer so it can encrypt anything.
But it's brand new so nobody knows how to fix it.
Look at this garbage. I'm Ryan_hayel
malwaretips.com/threads/tachyon-internet-security-acting-as-malware-installed-without-my-consent-and-i-cant-remove-it.94110/

>if a drive fails, all data on that drive is lost
Well yes that is generally what happens when a harddrive dies. Thank you for stating the obvious.

What are some good 2.5" HDDs for less than $60? Anything larger than 500gb is fine. I want to upgrade the storage of a laptop i recently got with a 512gb m.2

>want to buy more hdds
>no space
I regret buying a s340

>PC now just powers up the fans and mobo for a few seconds before shutting off and repeating the process
Faulty PSU? I've tried swapping out the ram, unplugging any non vital components but still nothing

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>unrecoverable read error
This is why you use ECC ram and mirroring if you must use magnetic drives, and only store data that is robust enough to not have a URE ruin it.
Video and Image files can take a URE and not be harmed, usually, and that's where you need ridiculously large storage and not much speed.

For other files, I'd be using an SSD array.

t.jew

>475 post thread, not a single mention of any videogame
>Yea Forums
Why are offtopic threads always the nicest threads?

What if your backup drives fail? And then your backup backup drives fail? How many times are you going to back up your data?

Not technically offtopic, it's discussing hardware

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>discuss about videogame hardware
>this retard come
end yourself.

BB regularly has the WD easystore 8tb for ~$150, and they're (usually) reds/NAS.

Pretty cool, I might get one if I see a good deal.

>SSD on good condition
>HDD on caution w/ C5-C6 on yellow

should I get a new drive now

Crucial MX500 good for a M2 SSD to install in a laptop?

waiting for ssd to catch up to normal HD prices

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he configured it in a way that his data was 8x more likely to suddenly become unrecoverable

You'll have to wait for many years then. You don't need 4TB of SSD anyway.

that's weak

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i have three 4TB hard drives already, and you don't tell me what i don't need, faget.

I wouldn't mind 4TB SSD for my pictures. Opening huge galleries might be very slow sometimes, and caching previews on SSD helps only that much. And opening huge folder with webms with cached previews is even slower.

>porn
>no biggie

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>*CLUNK*

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You can download it again, and even if there's something you can't find anymore who cares, there is a virtually infinite amount of other porn out there that will satisfy you just as well.

You are small time.
This is not even my porn collection.

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I have never used up more then a terabyte and a half of disc space. What are you doing that's taking up 24 terabytes?
>inb4porn

HAYAI

Not him, but PS3 gam..movies take a lot of space. Even PS1 games can easily eat somewhere around 1TB, because there's so many of them. Full pack of PS1 games would probably be somewhere around 2-3TB. I have whole 8TB HDD almost filled with console games.

It's your demon tranny pics you saved on it trying to manifest itself

>I have whole 8TB HDD almost filled with console games.
And I bet you haven't played even 5% of those.

Music, photos, anime and other loseless/high quality media files and of course, games can take up a lot of storage.

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that's not the point of collecting things.