I just lost around 2TB of data because my external hard

Disgusting.

How does that happen? I've never really had a hard drive crap out on me like that. I still have a 120gb Maxtor from 2003 that still works even.

>>1530508
Just decided to stop working, it kept shutting itself off every few seconds and asked me to format it. Earlier today I dismantled the box and just put the hard drive inside of my computer to see if it worked. It kinda did, but it still asked me to format it. Downloaded some software to scan it, but sadly the formerly external hard drive still shuts itself off every hour or so, which isn't enough time for me to properly recover my data. Read somewhere online that Seagate hard drives have a bad tendency of breaking down after a while, which is kind of worrying since my other almost completely full external hard drive is also of the same brand. I'll have to back that up, but backing up 3TB of data isn't something you just do on a whim.

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>>1530506
Who are the fallen, anon ?

>>1530524
I shitload of anime, manga, VNs, movies, hentai and some other stuff that I don't remember. Luckily I've backed up my reaction folder in like 4 different places so that I don't lose it.

I would greatly have preferred to lose a computer screen or something similar. It might be more expensive, but I don't need to use countless hours of hoarding to get all that shit back, most of which I probably will never recover.

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>>1530506
Make backups you goof

>>1530514
Put it in the freezer and take it back out only to copy to a new drive.

This is why you RAID.

>>1530549
I'll try some other things first, but if all else fails I might do that.

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>>1530534
As a fellow hoarder, I know that feel.
Carry on, I hope you will find back what you have lost.

>>1530508
I lost my porn drive and my music dive in the past year. Better start backing up cause you're long overdue.

It looks like this thread is being stealth bumped too.

Just letting everyone know about that.

>>1530549
>>1530564
explain to me how condensation is beneficial to computer hardware that stores data

this happend to another /qa/non the other day

it was me

>>1530506
are you me?

I lost all my porn one time because of it

>>1530629
Thanks. I wonder just how much of it is irrecoverable.

>>1531855
I just finished redownloading all of the 56,5GB that make up CM3D2 and all of its DLCs and patches. Shit only took 2 days or so.

>>1531418
trust him anon...

>>1532408
I saw that too.

Filthy stealth bumper.