NoEgo Posted January 23, 2017 Report Share Posted January 23, 2017 (edited) I always thought I was one of those guys that it couldn't happen to... Boy was I wrong! I recently had all of my drives fail virtually at once. As one began to fail, I ordered a replacement. The very day that the replacement drive arrived, my second drive began throwing some catastrophic failures, and then croaked entirely. I was able to salvage the data on the first drive, containing all my movie collection and personal backups. But I lost all the data from the second drive. I've even swapped out the PCBs and ROM chips. It's gone. So there goes my entire television and anime collection. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly is missing. I'm kinda bummed I can't find Qrazed release of Dragon Ball Kai now, but I am slowly rebuilding what I had. Lucky for me I was running Sonarr, Emby and a Kodi/mysql setup so there is a detailed documentation of the stuff I had, if not the specific releases. I dunno where I am going with this rant. It just sucks. Edited January 23, 2017 by CapMaster 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diamonddustlove Posted January 24, 2017 Report Share Posted January 24, 2017 (edited) Yep been there and still recovering. I lost everything anime, music, manga, movies. I'm actually surprised at how many things I've gotten back and then some. That's why I will always be grateful to anyone that has ever uploaded any kind of copywrited content. It's kept me sane for the past decade. Edited January 24, 2017 by diamonddustlove Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adog68 Posted February 4, 2017 Report Share Posted February 4, 2017 I had a 3tb seagate full of shows die on me. The pcb shorted and left a scorch mark on the metal part of the drive. I considered the pcb swap recovery route but figured the cost wasn't worth it. Most of the lost stuff I had backed to blu ray discs as data burns and the rest was still here on the web. Backing up 25gb takes anly about 16 min. with an Lg brand burner so now I back every show up. Better safe than sorry. When downloading a new show I use a directory listing progam to keep track of what I have and store it elsewhere. -adog Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ElementalCards Posted February 6, 2017 Report Share Posted February 6, 2017 I always save all my music, images, digital (not video) files on my flash drive and have done this for the past 7 yrs. Before that, I'd back up all of that to my email. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dab is a Cunt Posted February 23, 2017 Report Share Posted February 23, 2017 I had a 5tb seagate crap out on me a few months ago, the majority of the content was backed up to a 4tb portable seagate. Some of the backed up content was corrupted before I backed it up so obv the backups were corrupted too, but this forum has been instrumental in replacing the corrupted content. This forum truly is the best. Ever since I make sure to have at least 2 copies of everything across multiple hard drives because seagates suck and feel like they can crap out at any moment. The thing is everything's backed up to seagates so I'm not sure why having these backups makes me feel safer lmao. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foolishrobot Posted March 6, 2017 Report Share Posted March 6, 2017 I have a nas in raid 5 and had a similar experience. Seagates... one by one started throwing tons of SMART errors. One completely died. Panic'd and bought a bunch of WD reds to replace them. Fortunately, I didn't lose anything, but that was scary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thisisatrial Posted March 11, 2017 Report Share Posted March 11, 2017 Yeah this happened to me once and now I always am running a backup! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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