
Few days ago, suddenly my partitions were gone on my 1TB Samsung HD103UJ (which I bought for my bday 6months ago)
It will boot up but it’s not accessible anymore, my system now recognizes it as a 8gb drive.
I only used it for storage, but what I lost exactly? I have no idea…
I do know I had a partition of 500gb worth of asian DVD’s, but titles? I couldn’t name them.
the other 350gb were anime shows, j-drama shows, american tv-shows and stuff I don’t remember now.
I tried anything, placed it in my other rig – no go
I tried to format it – no go
even Tachikoma couldn’t fix it…
then I tried several data recovery utilities, the only thing I could salvage from the drive were (don’t laugh) a few JAV-movies XD
In total I think I lost around 850gb of data. But for some reason I don’t feel too sad about it. (maybe because I got other things on my mind?)
Once I said: I’d rather buy 2x500gb drives instead of 1 larger drive, cos if it dies, the loss will be less painful.
That’s so true, my main rig has/had 2x500gb+1x1TB. The other 2 drives have been working flawlessly for 2-3 years now.
Oh, don’t you just love Tachikoma? ^_^
I’m a huge GITS fanatic, it’s definitely my alltime favorite anime. (not to mention, Motoko is like the only female character I worship hehe)
-Tequila
Update: I got my HD back from RMA, well not the drive that went bad ofcourse, I got a brand new one. Now to find time to set it up… Not sure if I will put an OS on it this time.
I can understand your pain… My first External Hard Drive was a 500GB Seagate one. Within a month, data kept getting corrupted for no reason. Luckily, it was very isolated.
Right now, I have 2 Western Digital HDs (recommended). One 500GB and one 1TB.
Currently, I have 2 copies of everything. Either one on my Laptop and one on the 500GB Drive or one on my 1TB Drive. Some stuff have even been burned to DVDs.
I am very carefull with this as Drive Failure and data loss are some of my greatest fears.
So, it’s actually very important to back up everything.
There was a time when HD’s were smaller in size, it was easier to ‘backup’
but I’m not going to backup an entire TB drive, that’s just not realistic.
nice photo…
HDs keep getting cheaper, so the quality goes from bad to worse
Seems like it, remember those old bulky VCR’s from the 80′s? Indestructible…