Holy Christ, HD Failure....

[thenoob]

Wow, just wow. 4tb and years of building up my HS setup just poof gone.

i guess luckily for me I just made a copy for my friend, although an island apart, and can mail him a new HD to copy over.

 

that being said, does anybody here store their setup in a cloud situation in case this happens? Looking for recommendations .

[THK]

Hello, Mr. Obvious here  if you don't want to lose something stored on any data platform, make (a) backup(s)!!!!!!

If you want to keep something, back it up on another drive/device/cloud. If it's really important, don't even keep it in the same pc or location for that matter, but that might be overdoing it a bit for HS.

 

HDD drives will fail at some point. They are mechanical so there's wear. Plus manufacturing can never be perfect, there are always drives that fail within the expected life time of a product. SSD drives have a write limit (though they'll last long with average use). Anything with electronics can fail. You PSU or MB might die and take other hardware with them, you can have a power spike, lightning impact. Burnt media fades or gets damaged, cloud can shut down, subscription ends, server park dies. Your house can burn down. Basically things can happen, stuff will fail. 

I always tell ppl to back things up, and I must admit, I don't do it often enough myself. But I know who is to blame when shit goes wrong and I do keep backups of the most important stuff.