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2 years ago
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Wednesday morning, I get up, and do my usual routine of taking care of the cat, and getting my coffee. Afterwards, I fire up my PC. I see the screen where I enter in my PIN, so I can get to the desktop. I do so, and it's not the desktop I see, but a blank screen. I look over at the tower, and the Drive Status LED is constantly lit, rather than flashing. I let it sit for a few moments, with no change.
I do a soft power down, by holding the Power button for 8 seconds, and the computer turns off. I then wait 30 seconds, and turn the system back on. It boots, and posts with a single beep, indicating that there are no issues. But then, the screen goes blank once more, with the Drive Status LED continuing to stay lit, as the horrific truth slowly, and painfully sets in.
My SSD has died.
I had so many projects, and memories on that drive, as well as stuff that cannot be found on the Internet anymore.
I am beyond devastated, as I've tried everything from doing a full power down, to removing the drive off the motherboard, and re-installing it after, with the same outcome. I then had to make an emergency purchase off of a popular online shopping site, and won't have a new SSD in, until Saturday.
In the meantime, I am currently using my Raspberry Pi 4 8gb as a stand-in for the time being. It is by no means a powerhouse like my gaming rig, as it's just getting me by. It can stream videos in 720p, but that's about it. What really irks me, is I can't even play visual novels, since the Ren'py engine is looking for an x86 based architecture, and the Pi uses an ARM based processor.
So yeah. Most of what I do on Pi, is pretty much browser based.
That's about it for now.
Take care all.
Wednesday morning, I get up, and do my usual routine of taking care of the cat, and getting my coffee. Afterwards, I fire up my PC. I see the screen where I enter in my PIN, so I can get to the desktop. I do so, and it's not the desktop I see, but a blank screen. I look over at the tower, and the Drive Status LED is constantly lit, rather than flashing. I let it sit for a few moments, with no change.
I do a soft power down, by holding the Power button for 8 seconds, and the computer turns off. I then wait 30 seconds, and turn the system back on. It boots, and posts with a single beep, indicating that there are no issues. But then, the screen goes blank once more, with the Drive Status LED continuing to stay lit, as the horrific truth slowly, and painfully sets in.
My SSD has died.
I had so many projects, and memories on that drive, as well as stuff that cannot be found on the Internet anymore.
I am beyond devastated, as I've tried everything from doing a full power down, to removing the drive off the motherboard, and re-installing it after, with the same outcome. I then had to make an emergency purchase off of a popular online shopping site, and won't have a new SSD in, until Saturday.
In the meantime, I am currently using my Raspberry Pi 4 8gb as a stand-in for the time being. It is by no means a powerhouse like my gaming rig, as it's just getting me by. It can stream videos in 720p, but that's about it. What really irks me, is I can't even play visual novels, since the Ren'py engine is looking for an x86 based architecture, and the Pi uses an ARM based processor.
So yeah. Most of what I do on Pi, is pretty much browser based.
That's about it for now.
Take care all.
Having a backup strategy is super important! I have a nice big fantomdrives external drive I backup every thing to. I made a robocopy script that I run occasionally and it just does all the work.
Dynamite22
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Sadly, the current state my finances are in won't allow for that. :<
