My OS is on a 512gb M.2 drive, but the main storage on my laptop was a 1TB HDD, it started making noise about 2 weeks ago so I backed everything up onto a 1TB SanDisk USB SSD. This afternoon it got very clicky when I booted it up after work and icons for a few games I had stored on it, like KSP and YUZU, disappeared from the desktop and taskbar.

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      24·
      2 months ago

      I was not fucking around 😂.
      It started to sound like someone put a baseball card on a bike wheel and I had it packed full of mostly TV shows and moves I didn’t want to download again lol.

      • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        13·
        2 months ago

        Some of your data may have still been borked BTW

        It’s best practice to maintain a backup

        I’m better at it than I used to be but unfortunately I lost a lot of data to learn that lesson

        My drive started ticking a long time ago, I thought I successfully saved my data but when I dug through the drive a bunch of directories were full of broken files

  • ryannathans@aussie.zone
    201·
    2 months ago

    You’re still trusting one drive with your data, and those ssds can die without warning. You’re still in the same risky situation with your data

        • arefx
          4·
          2 months ago

          Just don’t store anything important and problem solved. Lol ;)

    • Chainweasel@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      6·
      2 months ago

      True, it’s definitely in the plans to get a NAS with a RAID setup and it may be expedited to nearer in the future than I thought lol

        • silly goose meekah@lemmy.world
          4·
          2 months ago

          ZFS is essentially a raid implementation. The principle is the same. From what I hear it’s probably the most popular implementation right now, and for good reason

          • Hexarei@programming.dev
            2·
            2 months ago

            It’s a fair bit more than that, but yes in a sense it is RAID if you are using it across more than one drive (as you should). You can use ZFS on a single drive though, so it’s a middle ground situation.

            The main thing is to avoid hardware RAID controllers unless you have a really good reason, and that’s generally what most people refer to as RAID. Generally folks are moving to JBOD setups with filesystems like ZFS now though

    • umbrella
      2·
      2 months ago

      yes! @op always have at least 2 copies at a minimum.

      if its really valuable data set up some 321 automatic backup.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.world
    12·
    2 months ago

    When you click on shortcuts and the path was not found and suddenly common windows DLL are simply missing. RIP.