This poor laptop drive was serving me well as a jank storage pool on my Nas for almost 8 years now and today it died.
16 years old? Nice
I have a 2006 drive that's still chugging along. IDE at that, haha
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Where did you get 16 years from? The drive says date of manufacture as 2012. 12 years is still a pretty good run for a laptop spinner though.
750Gb? That was a good era.
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I dont know what to do with all the space I have left. Maybe I'll get into backing up 4k uhd blurays
Disassemble it. Use the disks as decorations. Make it into a wind chime and hang it outside your window.
Nooo careful, everyone will know you're a nerd. Even the birds will shun you
I'm cool with that.
Hopefully your shit is backed up
Remember the freezer trick? Dead drive? Freeze it for 6 hours inside a zip bag and then, if lucky, you will get one final spin to copy your Docs folder.
Worked for me a couple of times.
It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.
Thats what scares me about SSDs. No moving parts to indicate imminent failure
All SSDs have SMART rapports that show the percentage of terabytes written. All of them have a max amount of tbw before they enter read only mode so your data is mostly safe.
Well, you should be replicating /backing up data regularly anyway.
All data on my mobile devices is synced to a server, which replicates locally to 2 other storage devices, and is backed up to a cloud storage.
I largely use Syncthing for mobile devices (even Windows laptops), so I'm always using a single tool/process (less confusion this way).
Everything in my / (and mounted there) is just rsynced to a simple SSD cluster at /backups, to a larger 3TB HDD cluster on my server, and from there it's .tar.xz'd, encrypted and backed up to Hetzner and Google. The server itself syncs with another server in another state.
UPS + two Internet services (and mobile).
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