FML!

[zoraxe]

My SSD crashed over the weekend and i lost all my glove related material Wasnt worried about all the other stuff on there just that haha

[Rommeltje]

Good thing the forum crash was reversable, or that would've been very bad timing.

Now you've got me worried, though, all of my porn is on my SSD as well. What was wrong with yours?

[gloveloverus]

Romm, not to scare you or anything but with SSD, generally when it fails it would be a complete failure meaning the drive just ceased to work one day with no warnings! Typically with a traditional spinning drive, there'd be sign that gives read/write errors in Operating System, but not the case with SSD. May want to back them up to another drive.

[Rommeltje]

O, no, wait, I'm lying. I've actually got my porn on an external HD. In fact, it wouldn't even fit, as it's twice the size of my entire SSD. I should back that up too, actually, but it's just too damn much. It's hard to hide a backup of that size, and the only other disk where I even have that much space left is not a very good one.

[zoraxe]

pretty much what gloveloverus said, had no idea it was coming. Turned pc off one day, came home frmo work and was just blue screening, reloaded windows on my HD, plugged back in SSD and blue screen again. Almost everything that was important (porn) was on my ssd HD only had games on it

[JaneyE]

Get one of these, guys:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Book-USB-3-0-Ha ... B00G28Y96K

Plug it in and backup ALL your stuff once a month! Otherwise, you will regret it. In my case, it's 14 years of family fotos and work (a good million lines of code and all my writing), my music collection (800 hours of MP3s) and a shitload of glove-related material. Imagine if all was gone The price of this HD is nothing compared to the value of my data.

I even have two of these babies, so I make two copies of both my 2TB internal hard drives once a month and store each copy in geographically separated locations. Really, if my flat goes up in flames, I don't give a shit. I'm insured and can buy me a new telly and new clothes any day. But if my data's gone

For Windows users: the HD comes with a backup utility. You virtually just plug it in and it knows what to do by itself.

For Linux and Mac users: open a terminal and type in ONE command line:

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rsync -avz /your/internal/hdd/  /your/external/hdd/  --delete

Then go grab lunch and when you come back it's ready. You have an exact copy of your whole hard drive. It may take a while the first time, but from the second time it will update only the data that have changed.

Easy as that, chaps! Do it today. Tomorrow might be too late!

Janey

[Rommeltje]

Wouldn't cloud storage be a safer solution?

[JaneyE]

Wouldn't cloud storage be a safer solution?

Assuming the provider exists for ever. (Think altavista, myspace, ...) Even if the company exists for ever, you have no guarantees unless you go for a professional paid service. Google have discontinued many a service from one day to the next and left users without access to their data.

[Grim]

Wouldn't cloud storage be a safer solution?

Cloud storage is not trustworthy. As JaneyE pointed out, services discontinue and Google are absolute shitheads as far as changing the rules with no notice is concerned. They have to be for SEO as every bugger and his cousin is looking for loopholes but they could be a little bit less hasty where everything else is concerned, neh?

RAID 5 array in the NAS box, backup images for the SSD and data HDD in the desktop. The SSD is OS and common applications only and 60 GB so a backup image is no issue, data more of one but having a cheap NAS box to back everything up to doesn't hurt. Multiple external hard drives for more irreplaceable data and remote family file store for the special stuff (I have a brother who's as warped as I am).

Gone are the days of running a matrix RAID array (1+0, 2 Raptors striped with another pair mirroring the volume) but you still need to be at least a little bit paranoid.