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.
main storage [...] was
oh no
I backed everything up
OH YEAH ๐ฅค
I was not fucking around ๐.
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.
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
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
I really want to get backups I'm just poor tbh
Just remember everything and you dont need a backup
Just don't store anything important and problem solved. Lol ;)
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
Reject raid, ZFS supremacy
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
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
Ah well, I was not aware that people usually mean hardware when they say raid. Thanks for clearing that up.
Zfs is the way, raid is far from perfect
Raid is a concept, zfs is a type of software raid.
No, perhaps you are refering to zraid, one of the vdev types
yes! @op always have at least 2 copies at a minimum.
if its really valuable data set up some 321 automatic backup.
When you click on shortcuts and the path was not found and suddenly common windows DLL are simply missing. RIP.
You running HollywoodOS?
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No backup no mercy