This poor laptop drive was serving me well as a jank storage pool on my Nas for almost 8 years now and today it died.
Edit: Coasters and fridge magnets acquired
16 years old? Nice
I have a 2006 drive that’s still chugging along. IDE at that, haha
750Gb? That was a good era.
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Disassemble it. Use the disks as decorations. Make it into a wind chime and hang it outside your window.
Nooo careful, everyone will know you’re a nerd. Even the birds will shun you
Hopefully your shit is backed up
It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.
Thats what scares me about SSDs. No moving parts to indicate imminent failure
Well, you should be replicating /backing up data regularly anyway.
All data on my mobile devices is synced to a server, which replicates locally to 2 other storage devices, and is backed up to a cloud storage.
I largely use Syncthing for mobile devices (even Windows laptops), so I’m always using a single tool/process (less confusion this way).
New fridge magnets
