Sh17happens Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Ohhh no my Hard drive died in my cabinet with no backup !!!!!!! Time to start the downloads from scratch:facepalm: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrillCaz Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 How old was the hard drive? Reading this just gave me an anxiety attack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cowbells Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 My worst fear. I backup my stuff ever so often, but not often enough. I've lost some cool stuff before that I still can't find again and stuff I was working on due to HD failure. I feel yer pain! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh17happens Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 2 1/2 years old so wasnt something i had considered but now on start it is "Knock Knock Knock Knock" Worse thing is finding the downloads again ahhh so many hours getting the way i wanted it ........ but seems things have changed and the Sync thingo has been redone might be easier now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sh17happens Posted July 27, 2014 Author Share Posted July 27, 2014 May this Thread be a warning to all BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP ...... i did have a backup which i deleted thinking i would take a fresh one one day and that day never happened Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keith_Loving Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Sorry to hear the news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman7793 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Yup, you have to backup that's for sure. The bad part is, if your like me. 16tb of games, make it very difficult to backup all that. Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KrillCaz Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Yup, you have to backup that's for sure. The bad part is, if your like me. 16tb of games, make it very difficult to backup all that. Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk 16TB?!? I'm intrigued as to what all you have? I have a pretty thorough collection, and I only use 8TB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman7793 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I'll post up the list tomorrow when I wake up. But ps2 is 4tb alone. I don't even have close to a full set either. I'll send it to you in a pm Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinsanity Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I'll post up the list tomorrow when I wake up. But ps2 is 4tb alone. I don't even have close to a full set either. I'll send it to you in a pm Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk Now this is a list I must see. PM me too please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman7793 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Lol Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marxkemp Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Can I take a look at your list? With the hyperlist db's, a wii top100 and ps2 top200 i'm around 4tb. When those last two would be complete, should I be around 16tb or am i missing something (like big pc games)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trnzaddict Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 Sandman, maybe you should look into getting a Drobo 5 bay and stuffing like 5 4TB hard Drives in there for all that data. If it detects a HD failure, or detects that a HD failure may occur soon, the red light next to the drive lights up, it transfers all the data off the bad one to the remaining good drives, and you take the bad drive out and just slide a new one in. Rebuilds data, done. To me it's more reliable than a RAID array inside of a PC. When it rebuilds you don't even have to have the host PC on. I've been using mine for years and it's saved all my media 3 times so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doo138 Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I had this happen to me a month ago. Was putting final touches on cab and dog bumped hard drive. Shorted out the hd's pcb. Had to start all over again. Was a cheap build so didnt backup anything cause of costs but the time put into everything could have payed for 20 backup hard drives. Good news is the setup was insanely faster now that i knew what i was doing. I hope ypu can get everything back up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSDguy Posted July 27, 2014 Share Posted July 27, 2014 I use synctoy with my My Cloud EX 4 8tb to back-up. Synctoy is cool because it only copies and overwrites changes no everything. Also, you can copy and overwrite changes both ways if you need to! Check it out for your next setup brother! However, I would not recommend the My Cloud EX 4 really has been a lot of trouble for me. Read the amazon reviews on that one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandman7793 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 I have a 8th NAS already. I haven't forgot about the list either. I been going crazy with a honey do list. To answer above. The biggest space hogs are as follows ps2 =4tb uncompressed, wii = over 4tb, ps1 = over 1tb, game cube= ? Not in front of NAS, well over 300 PC games = OMG because some are over 25 gb for one. The list is endless for a addiction like this. Sent from my SM-N900A using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire10 Posted July 29, 2014 Share Posted July 29, 2014 It is certainly addictive Sandman I feel your pain LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levi704 Posted October 27, 2014 Share Posted October 27, 2014 Happened to me this week, I am a new Hyperspin user only been working on it for a month or so. Had about 2.5 TB on it. I was lucky I was able to get the drive going again and before it died completely, I transferred all the renamed roms over to another HD, that was my biggest fear doing that all over again, especially because I had 650 gamecube roms. I lost some modified themes I did but I can re-due those. How can you back up such large volumes of data, no hd's are full proof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craiganderson Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 LOts of backup options i use this FREE program does exactly what i need DSynchronize http://dimio.altervista.org/eng/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dougan78 Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Ms office365 personal plans next year will have unlimitted storage for one drive for 6.99/month. Decent option coming up soon for offsite backups! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agrajag Posted October 28, 2014 Share Posted October 28, 2014 Another option is to get a friend or relative into emulation and HyperSpin, then you can be each other's off-site backup service! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Suhrvivor Posted October 29, 2014 Share Posted October 29, 2014 Ms office365 personal plans next year will have unlimitted storage for one drive for 6.99/month. Decent option coming up soon for offsite backups! Cool, I subscribed after hearing the news. Only 1Tb at the moment but it will get unlimited next year. I'm currently backing up those roms and iso sets of older consoles (sega cd, 3DO, etc), they took me a long time to download, compress and rename. I was worried some day I will lose them all due to an HDD failure and have to waste time getting them again. This really takes a huge weight off my back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ninja2bceen Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 All this talk got me to buy a back up! Just picked one up for 95 buck wd 3 tb. Check out the article, sea gates fail the most. http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/175089-who-makes-the-most-reliable-hard-drives The deal for a few more weeks: http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/983303-REG/western_digital_wdbwlg0030hbk_nesn_3tb_elements_desktop_external.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agrajag Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 Interesting article, thanks. Makes me wonder how Seagate are managing to stay in business! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djvj Posted October 30, 2014 Share Posted October 30, 2014 This is the latest read from the pros https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ Sent from my Samsung Note 4 via Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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