/tech/ - Technology

In fact, I know for a fact it's not even a year old, it's only got 6k power on hours, and only 25 FUCKING POWER ONS IN GENERAL.
What the FUCK am I gonna do now?? My warez won't fit on disks!

It's futile brother. The cycle of suffering goes on infinitely until we achieve nirvana abolishing all local storage. All data to the clouds brother, it's the only way.

IT LITERALLY JUST WENT UP TO 1872, fuck this shit, I'm keeping this thing unplugged till I get a replacement, fuckin junk.

S.M.A.R.T. test, wish me luck, my anime and vidya depends on hopes and prayers at this point. Whatever dipshit made new drives last so little time, deserves to get fucking ᴉuᴉlossnW'd

One of my drives is starting to die. Keeps giving me errors and trying to fix it when I start it up, but it must not be fixing it. I'm so lazy to move all my files. I guess if I clone it and make the new drive the same letter, I won't have to worry about all my references right? Goddamn it, I already have too many other electronics problems right now. Haven't had a drive fail on me in over a decade. Last one the disk stopped spinning even. This one, I have no idea how it got corrupted and I wonder what was lost if it's corrupted. Recently I've been using externals for all my data storage and using internal disk drives for my programs. Use the SSDs for my important programs and the internal disk drives for my gaymes because I'm cheap.

Come with me to the clouds brothers. Give up your plastics, coppers, and steels. The clouds await.

The true path belongs not in the clouds but as the clouds brother. Only in becoming the clouds can we transcend the clouds themselves, and reach even higher plains.

Thanks everyone, but clouds hate me on account that I've probably pirated enough warez to put blackbeard to shame. I don't want the gestapo on my ass.
Either way, the S.M.A.R.T. bullshit failed, and my drive went from 1872 Current Pending Sectors….to 3 FUCKING THOUSAND.
In other words, I'm going to try and backup all my shit, I do have a lot in another drive already, but a lot of my torrented stuff is still just here. If it dies when transferring (very possible since it's a whole terrabyte, most of that being one piece obviously)…I don't have a joke, I'll just cry harder.

>>29270
Bruh wtf
>>29281
Did that workout?

>>29266
Who said to get a Toshiba lolol

Rare Toshiba L, they're a very good brand in my experience and others I know.

>>29278
Massively gay

>>29266
Samsung make the best NVMe's by a mile
>1tb
>contains OS, software and games
>has been filled and near emptied several times
>4 years old
>0 bad sectors
I can't praise Samsung enough, from batteries to LEDS to SSDs they just make great stuff.

>lost 2 drives with movies and music with 15 years of content
I no longer care about files. I have ascended. My heart was shattered and i cannot feel

>>29334
At the same time?

>>29266
>>29302
Hey comrades, quick little update, that shit did not work. The drive literally shit itself as I tried to plug it back in…any time I try to plug it back in gives me an obnoxious clicking noise, completely undetectable. Pretty much means the disk drive is actively damaging itself and that my files are good as gone. This is actually incredibly sad because I had something which could be considered lost media, though I'm currently in talks with someone who still has the files from the old archive.org upload. Literally a greek dub by romanians who barely speak the language, shit's hilarious.
I'll just use my warranty and get a replacement, which will probably promptly shit itself too in 8 months. However now that I know this is a possibility with toshitba, I'll just start putting the really important files in DVDs. I'm that far gone when it comes to data hoarding.
Also don't ask why I'm using brazilian megaman pics, I just really like the artstyle, and admittedly the batshit insane writing has been uplifting in what's probably the worst month of my life. Not gonna bitch about it, but this would not hurt as bad if I didn't have actual problems going on. Shame too, the last five months were some of my happiest.
Just leaving this here since, yeah, I accidentally closed the tab before. Literally typing this as I'm redownloading FNV, it was my one comfort game lately.

>>29341
There are places that can fix disc drives. Just hope you don't have any illegal shit on them.

>>29342
The closest thing is all my pirated anime and vidya, though I sincerely doubt that'd get me in trouble since the content itself is not actually illegal, it's the act of downloading them (previously it was JUST uploading them, but greece is a shithole and recently made even viewing pirated content punishable by a hefty fine).
So yeah no that should still work, problem is that I don't have a thousand bucks to spend on it, plus I already gave the other guys the disk drive for a replacement, it's straight up broken as I said.

>>29341
My brother suggested to me to get a backup solid state drive. Disk drives are prone to damage quickly due to using moving parts.
Also, remember how people collected DVDs and VHS tapes can some can still be watchable after three or four decades depending on how much they've been used?
Meanwhile, with flash drives, a lot of devices require you to "format your drive" which means I have to delete everything?

>>29340
Pretty much, maybe like a week difference

>>29366
Yeah the problem is that SDDs are way too expensive, so an external HDD is just more convenient if I want slow load times for a lot more bytes, like 2 teras.
This is why HDDs becoming obsolete pisses me off. We should still have the option of like, a quadfuckinbillion tbs, but nooooo, you WILL buy your 500gb SDD and you're gonna LIKE IT, PEASANT!

>>29278
Until it gets hacked

>>29323
Yeah, generally OEM manufacturers are where it's at, Seagate, Toshiba and Western Digital.

>>29366
> Meanwhile, with flash drives, a lot of devices require you to "format your drive" which means I have to delete everything?
If left unplugged from electricity, flash degrades with time. Plugging it in a pc every couple of months should prevent that.

consumer toshibas are barely a step above western digitals lol

you got trolled my dude

This is probably the last update. They called me back after 16 days to tell me the groundbreaking news that it's broken…gee, really?
I got my replacement drive, only after the stupid bitch on the phone tried to trick me into buying something else of equal value, cause they said they didn't have another drive. I went on their site and noticed they DID have a replacement, so either they lied or they didn't even bother to check. I noticed the price was up from 66 euro, to 69 euro, so genuinely that's possibly why they didn't mention they had a replacement…pricks.
Long story short, I got another fucking toshiba canvio, for free…sure it might also die in 8 months, but at least I didn't have to downgrade from 2tb.

>>29662
Make sure to stress test it early on. If your drives are going to fail you, you want it to be soon, before they have data on them.

>toshiba
ngmi, it was over before it even began flood detected post discarded

I've had no issues with western digital, even with the budget green ones

>>29266
My Toshiba drive experience was also bad, I feel you there :D

>>29266
Surely the drive you bought is still in warranty?

>>29448
In my experience external HDDs have been horrible for reliability and constantly broke. But maybe that's because I was too clumsy and dropped them sometimes and didn't really know you shouldn't move them while they're plugged in

All my important files I have stored in triplicate on three old 3.5" hdd sata drives of different brands I had lying around. I figure if they are stored somewhere out of the elements at least one of them ought to still be readable 20 years from now.

You guys stressing out about pirated content you can download anywhere and you don't even give it the time of your day, meanwhile I lost all my teenage years' photos on my old phone that broke.

I got some WD Red HDD drives years ago and they're been at it just fine, I dunno why they have such a bad rep. You also should probably invest in some sort of NAS device with raid or whatever, 2 TB devices are dirt cheap these days and you can always use the peace of mind tbh