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Good News Update on my hard drive

As a few of you may remember from the end of February/beginning of March, my hard drive went tits up and died on me. Losing precious memories and a fountain of knowledge that I'd gained over the last 12 years.

I am happy to say that I have got it back, or at least it's on the way. Cost a pretty penny, but I feel in the end it was worth it.

Once again, thanks to @khro_ and @level_101 for their advice at the time. @HughGlass you'll be happy to know I also used a data recovery service and they were able to save everything. Which is a relief, because they said that the firmware completely died on it.

I know most of you don't care, and that this isn't meant to be a blog. But I'll be happy to have all my holohoax documentaries back, all my bookmarks to obscure information, all my informational pdfs from the old days on the chans and my meme vaults and infographics back.

Now, here's hoping a nigger doesn't drop my stuff or a porch pirate nabs it. Because we can't have nice things anymore, can we?

As a few of you may remember from the end of February/beginning of March, my hard drive went tits up and died on me. Losing precious memories and a fountain of knowledge that I'd gained over the last 12 years. I am happy to say that I have got it back, or at least it's on the way. Cost a pretty penny, but I feel in the end it was worth it. Once again, thanks to @khro_ and @level_101 for their advice at the time. @HughGlass you'll be happy to know I also used a data recovery service and they were able to save everything. Which is a relief, because they said that the firmware completely died on it. I know most of you don't care, and that this isn't meant to be a blog. But I'll be happy to have all my holohoax documentaries back, all my bookmarks to obscure information, all my informational pdfs from the old days on the chans and my meme vaults and infographics back. Now, here's hoping a nigger doesn't drop my stuff or a porch pirate nabs it. Because we can't have nice things anymore, can we?
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Glad to hear it. I'm trying to recall what advice i gave, but sounds like it was to send it off and hope the wizard nerds could do magic for you like they did for me. It appears they pulled it off.

As AOU said - RAID. RAID 1. I use a teramaster - https://www.terramaster.net/us/products/homesoho-nas/f2-839.html. Mine might be overkill for your needs; i use it as the brain of our home entertainment....running media i'm good with out to the TVs around the house rather than relying on Disney streaming to put out stuff that's not full of fags and trannys.

Either way, a two bay system and three hard drives is all you need. Swap out one ever now and then and save it in the safe. let the other two stay mirrored and redundant. the third is the oh-shit drive.... fire, flood, etc. wipes out the first two, you've got a third in a fire/flood proof safe or off prem that will let you rebuild.