LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 day agoAt what point did you decide you needed more storage space?message-squaremessage-square21fedilinkarrow-up167arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up167arrow-down1message-squareAt what point did you decide you needed more storage space?LunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.org to Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square21fedilinkfile-text
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.earthlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 day agothis is the only true answer. like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.
minus-squareHandles@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·1 day agoI’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!
minus-squareLunchMoneyThief@links.hackliberty.orgOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·15 hours agoJust last week I did a drive clone for somebody who’s disk reported a total runtime of over 9 years. The SMART stats only reported one pending sector and long spin up time but it was making noises that said otherwise. The clone completed with only three I/O errors.
minus-squareBlackmistlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·7 hours agoI got one a few months old that was clicking like something from The Last of Us. I swear SMART data is the most useless shit.
minus-squareHandles@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·1 day agoYou read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?
this is the only true answer.
like making backups only when the disk starts clicking.
I’m waiting for the disk to stop clicking before I back it up. Any day now!
Just last week I did a drive clone for somebody who’s disk reported a total runtime of over 9 years. The SMART stats only reported one pending sector and long spin up time but it was making noises that said otherwise.
The clone completed with only three I/O errors.
See, I’ll be fine.
I got one a few months old that was clicking like something from The Last of Us.
I swear SMART data is the most useless shit.
it’s fine, raid0 is a backup right?
You read my mind! Now help me read this dead mechanical drive, would you?