• flatbield@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    They should at least try to recover the data. Maybe a data recovery program like spinrite would just do it. https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm .

    Not running raid, not backing up, and not even trying the simplest recovery approaches is just sloppy and lazy. Do at least one of the three.

    Like someone else said. Expect the biggest risk of failure when you buy it. Then like maybe 5 years out rising failure rates. Refreshing the disk pattern as it gets older can help too.

      • NattyNatty2x4@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        You can be mad at it but what they said is largely true. Not having the data backed up somewhere and expecting everything to be perfectly fine forever is like not having old photos backed up somewhere and expecting everything to be perfectly fine forever.

        It’s even more egregious here because if OP can afford a 3TB SSD, they should be able to afford a 3+TB HDD as a backup no problem. The money isn’t an issue for OP, just improper knowledge of how to handle data storage. It isn’t necessarily their fault this happened since the average person isn’t given this info, but at its core, “pay more money” because you need backups is the only true answer

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      1 year ago

      All of this skills the point. This is a second drive that failed, it was the replacement for an earlier drive that failed.

      That’s what the article is all about.

      A high, unexpected and unreasonable failure rate.

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        1 year ago

        I had a high failure rate in some Seagate drives in the early 00s. Switch vendors and never had the problem again.

        We also do no know how they failed. Are they still image readable with ddrescue or spinrite for example or are they truly crashed. It is not clear if they even tried.