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user-inactivated  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 5, 2016

Slowly learning that I'm not special, especially in regards to other people and relationships. My ego is resisting.

Aiming to date soon. Still looking for a person to invite out.

My laptop broke a week ago. Today I found out that I've lost about a year of material: all the music, the programming and writing projects, a year+ worth of uni material and all the rest of the good stuff, - due to SSD's failure. Replacing it with the HDD that the laptop held prior, with hopes to scrape enough to buy a new SSD in a couple of months. Backups are to become mandatory weekly.





Cedar  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Backups are to become mandatory weekly.

That is why I hammered the point to use Google Drive or Dropbox or for-the-love-of-god-anything to my friends at Uni. It really, really sucks when it happens to you, but I feel it's something that must happen to everyone once before they learn the lesson.

As for the drive, what actually has happened with it? You might be able to take it to a data recovery firm, in some cases with traditional HDDs it's as simple as replacing the controller chip with one from the same model; I have no idea if that would be possible for a SSD however.

coffeesp00ns  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it's a pay service, but I've heard nothing but good things about Backblaze for off-site backup.

user-inactivated  ·  2730 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I don't know what exactly happened to it. It's probably in the report that the repair service has made afterwards... which I forgot to take with the receipt... Whoops.

I stay hopeful, though. If there's a chance of recovery, I'll see if I can apply for it. The SSD contained, among other things not in the backup drive, a few of the web projects that I may not be able to recreate (or that will take a lot of time to recreate with any precision).

It also had all the latest music I've accumulated. I hope it can be repaired.

byonic  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I keep missing you on IRC dude! Our schedules seem to have gotten out of sync lately, probably mostly mine.

Mail me on here if you want to talk things through in depth!

lil  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I love this expression of intercontinental compassion!

user-inactivated  ·  2731 days ago  ·  link  ·  

And I keep pinging you. :)

In case you're up for a chat, I'll be online on IRC all night. It's where I'd rather discuss everything.