Welp, my external HDD went kaput. How inconvenient.
11 years ago
Something happened to the spindle while I was carrying it around and the drive is no longer able to spin. Before I go on any further, virtually nothing of value has been lost and I have no interest in troubleshooting.
No artwork has been lost. I did routinely back them up in there but I always kept everything in computers. Feel free to stop reading at this point.
There were some good bit of data in there, but most of them were downloaded content that I can recover sometime in the future. Plus, many of them were many years old and essentially obsolete.
I did lose all of my previous school stuff, but I already recovered all of the important portfolio from student account archive (One thing this thing's actually good for). The rest can rot for all I care.
A good bit of porn were also lost, but almost all of them were shit anyway. I don't miss them the slightest.
I might try getting it fixed, but it's not a priority. I got other things to worry about.
No artwork has been lost. I did routinely back them up in there but I always kept everything in computers. Feel free to stop reading at this point.
There were some good bit of data in there, but most of them were downloaded content that I can recover sometime in the future. Plus, many of them were many years old and essentially obsolete.
I did lose all of my previous school stuff, but I already recovered all of the important portfolio from student account archive (One thing this thing's actually good for). The rest can rot for all I care.
A good bit of porn were also lost, but almost all of them were shit anyway. I don't miss them the slightest.
I might try getting it fixed, but it's not a priority. I got other things to worry about.

Tiido
~tiido
HDDs going down, so frustrating...

BlueCactus
~bluecactus
OP
I really should have considered the possibility that this HDD would fail before any other.


Ugh! Happened to me more than once and few things are more frustrating.

BlueCactus
~bluecactus
OP
I'm happy that I always kept original copies. Some of them date back all the way to 2005 and I'd hate to lose all that nostalgia.


Yes... well... I didn't. "Things you don't back up are things you don't really want"- well, that wasn't true.