RIP hard drive

[Carcass29]

still scratching my head about this one...haven't used it in a few days and wasn't even near it when i heard a pop and a fizzle. I looked and saw the power was plugged into a power strip along with my Mac which is fine. Damn, lost everything

 

[sprack]

External HD? Might just be the transformer brick.

 

[Carcass29]

yes....didn't think of that, thanks

 

[rispsira]

Dam man i just hate when that stuff happens.. A couple of weeks ago i bought a new hard drive to back up and back ip.. Next thing u know one of my drives decided to fail just before the backup and i lost a lot of stuff

 

[Genius Gone Insane]

I am dreading that day.

 

[Carcass29]

^yep...it sucks 4 years of data, presets.....dfh superior. we know what a bitch installing that alone is

 

[JeffTD]

I love in constant fear of harddrive failure. It's unhealthy as fuck, but I backup constantly as a result of it.

 

[sprack]

Amazon Glacier is cheap if you have stuff you cannot afford to lose. I wouldn't store an OS image there, but anything else critical it'd be good. Only downside is long retrieve times. Other's like Backblaze are competitive.

 

[kev]

Hope you get it back. Anybody who doesn't backup every day is asking for a hadoken from their computer in the very near future.

 

[Carcass29]

^ thanks man

 

[Jind]

I've gone to a completely cloud based backup for all my systems. I've experienced too many hardware failures over the years and even though I always had some from of backup (including the tape backup still in my server tower - have not used in in years, but it's still installed), not worrying that any days data will be lost is very comforting.