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/g/, i need advice from anyone that has experience with this. One of my drives (2tb of porn) is dying. It made a weird noise and now it takes forever to open folders (10-15 minutes). About half of the files in a folder can be opened without problem, but the other half also take 10-15 minutes. I used Seatools to check it out but it stopped midway.
Im going to buy an 8tb drive tomorrow. What is the best way to transfer all the files in a safe way to the new drive? Should i literally just copy and paste one folder at a time? Should i use some software?
Im scared i going to brick it once and for all if i push it too much.
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It's okay if the drive dies. Just restore from backup.
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Ddrescue to an identical drive if its important
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>>58498320
I dont have a backup because im an idiot.
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>>58498370
Thanks, reading into it. How "identical" does it need to be? Exactly the same manufacturer and model-number? Or just size? What if the second drive is larger?
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>>58498238
Hopefully your drive dies and you realize you can live without porn.
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>>58498637
>living without porn
What are you, gay?
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>>58498754
Yea
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>>58498374
Well fucking buy a new drive and clone it.
If it bricks mid-clone, well, you fucked up.
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>>58498238
Go one file at a time from most important to least
Hopefully it's been defragmented, then you won't have tons of seeking
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>>58498408
If second drive is larger, it will be OK, you'll just have to grow the partition to fill the drive so will add a second step.
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