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Drowning_witch

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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 16:33 Post subject: "backup" hard drive died, but no worries lol	Quick Quote Quote

Man, talk about an instant and surprising death the drive was in perfect condition in all benches i ran periodically. i was torrenting x-files season 3 HD when it said "disk io error" on utorrent. restart PC, shit won't boot until i unplug the drive. Gone is the whole RPG gog library, every piece of music from john coltrane,Captain beeheart, frank zappa, the stooges, alice coltrane, Miles Davis, and on and on. gonna need to always have 2 backup hardrives for emergencies from now on lol, thats if I ever reclaim the 4+ years of goodness I had stored since my last hard drive died and I said the same thing im saying now. And then I realized, most of it is within my grasp 24/7 online now. The internet has progressed so much, that local storage is becoming pretty archaic in a sense. TLDR: fuck hard drives anyways.

Newty182

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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 17:14 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

So how many gigs of data did you lose? I deleted about 400GB of .iso's the other day, for the same reason you gave.. "The internet has progressed so much". If I ever want to play them in the future I can just download them again. Ryzen 5 5600, ASUS ROG STRIX B550-F GAMING WIFI II, Corsair Vengeance RGB RT 32GB 3600MHz C16, MSI RTX 5070 Ti Ventus 3X OC , Corsair RMx Series RM750x. AOC AGON AG324UX - 4K 144Hz 1ms

VonMisk

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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 17:16 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

You can try and change the pcb plate in it for the same model. The data shouldn't be fucked up. sar·casm \| \ ˈsär-ˌka-zəm \ 1: a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain 2a: a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b: the use or language of sarcasm

tonizito
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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 17:55 Post subject:

VonMisk wrote:

You can try and change the pcb plate in it for the same model. The data shouldn't be fucked up.

This, although sometimes the problem lies in finding another one on sale

boundle (thoughts on cracking AITD) wrote:

i guess thouth if without a legit key the installation was rolling back we are all fucking then

ixigia
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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 18:02 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I can feel you pain bud, when my PC got that infamous virus I lost 800GB of stuff Thankfully I had backups and ISOs on another hard drive, but still..ffuuu Random creations of an insane mind / Screens from Bulgaria [Early Access]

Drowning_witch

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Posted: Thu, 25th Oct 2012 18:48 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

I lost around 200gb, which I know isn't much for many people today, but i'm still on wd raptors gen 2, and for backup I had a cheaper and slower regular WD 7200rpm. The other backup is a seagate 7200.10 so no chance of backplate reuse. Ill be getting a 1tb drive soon and then still keeping the aging raptor as an OS+played games main drive until it dies and I can afford a proper replacement for it, not some storage mid range HDD. Its basically just an inconvenience and a timewaster, not a permanent loss. its not like anything I had was one of a kind in the world, although some is tough to find. It will lighten up my pressure of seeing the huge backlog of games at once all the time steam: Drowning witch uplay: Haxeety game completion log: http://pastebin.com/g6MgD5DV rig: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/2090866