My HDD failed

[Guzara]

Seagate baracuda 2 TB

Almost lost all fart clips ::sad 13 years of fart clips, but I backed up before 2 weeks so loss is minimal.::nyam

I think about RAID1 array - mirroring.

How do you take care about your fart clips, do you backup disk regulary?

[kagura]

i saved my favourite clips regularly on dvds,since a while ago my laptop has died.dont want to lose my clips again lol

[1904p]

That sucks mate...

I'd avoid Seagate hard drives, they are known for failing at higher rates than WD etc. Apparently HGST hard drives are the most reliable, either that or pay a premium and store them on an SSD. RAID might be a good idea too, any kind of backup is useful.

[djfingerher]

I have multiple HDDS.
Some backup on websites.
I'm thinking of paying a yearly fee on one of them and store everything there, it has to have streamable video too which it has because I don't wanna have to download to watch lol.

[Mudofale]

I got the premium on dropbox. It backs everything up automatically so long as I put it in the folder, so I have no worries at all. And I can access them from any computer at any time. But Raid 10 is the way to go if you're looking for a safe way to keep your data. It's highly unlikely that they'll both fail at the same time, and you get pretty good speeds.

[Guzara]

I bought Toshiba now 3 TB, it's cheaper then Seagate and WD but I don't think their drives are less quality then others , but it's pain in the ass to copy around 1TB back to new HDD over network, I backed up on NAS.

I will need several days.

Good news s that old drive is dying , it clicks but it's detected on older motherboard with old BIOS. I might backup some recent files.

Do not store on cheap DVDs / CDs , during the years discs will become unreadable.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c4/Disc_rot.jpg

[Mudofale]

I bought Toshiba now 3 TB, it's cheaper then Seagate and WD but I don't think their drives are less quality then others , but it's pain in the ass to copy around 1TB back to new HDD over network, I backed up on NAS.
There's a website to compare harddrive quality vs. pricing. It's what I use when looking for new parts such as GPU, CPU, etc. (hxxp://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/). I could have sworn it had a section on failure rate, but I guess I was wrong.

[Gurgle Goddess]

I have a toshiba external HDD where I back up all my stuff fairly regularly, I don't have room for all my videos on my laptop so I tend to keep the big, unedited video files on there too, plus I have multiple old HDDs from old, dead laptops.

[Karl]

I transfer all my files on Mypassport 2 TB external hard disk,and thanks to God it's working fine till now.

[Guzara]

I transfer all my files on Mypassport 2 TB external hard disk,and thanks to God it's working fine till now.

you should backup , it's never just at one place

[Karl]

Yes,you are right,I will do that

[StrykerFett]

Mine just failed yesterday. 3 Tbs gone, much of it porn and a ton of video games as well.

[Guzara]

Mine just failed yesterday. 3 Tbs gone, much of it porn and a ton of video games as well.

how many years of content was wasted? ::sad

[Jesus]

you should backup , it's never just at one place

All my pooping/farting clips are in 1 single external HDD luckily it hasn't died on me but the times the computer was not detecting it I kinda freaked out due to economic reasons I haven't gotten new HDD's I'll try to get one or two in black friday hopefully If I get the money because If something happens to it, it would be a tragedy ::sad

[Jesus]

Mine just failed yesterday. 3 Tbs gone, much of it porn and a ton of video games as well.

I read before that 2TB and 3TB die/fail often the more reliable ones are the 1TB but maybe it's a myth

[saintrow]

I have 1,5 TB Samsung for about 5 or even 6 years, still alive. That's for those who care of a quality of a HDD.