So... I just lost my external.

[No social life]

So... I just "lost"(someone dropped it of a balcony into a street) my external (6TB), And one proverbial shit storm a broken door (and a bruised pair of hands) later, I was left wondering what other things I had lost in the past that had had such a equally big impact on me and it occurred that my hard drive and its data had been my most prized possession, filled with irreplaceable and impossible to backup data.

Now I want to know, what would anyone else do if they lost a large hard drive with irreplaceable data?

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

I back up all the data from my computer onto an external hard drive, then I back up all the data on my external hard drive to another external hard drive.

I have back ups of back ups, I just don't trust a single external to not crap out on me.

 

[Fappy]

I feel like the OP's story needs to be elaborated on. It sounds... juicy...

 

[teqrevisited]

Damn. The most I ever lost data-wise was 500gb when my HDD went to silicon heaven. Since then I've backed up my documents on an external drive and games onto dvds. At the rate my internet downloads at I really can't take downloading everything more than once, so I download everything once and when I know that it wont get any more big updates I back it up and burn it to a disc.

Some of the random files in my documents I'd probably never be able to find again though. Obscure editing programs or mod files that were hard to track down in the first place for ancient games that otherwise only work during a full solar eclipse.

I've come a long way since making the first PC I used in school bluescreen because I ejected the floppy disk while it was in use.

 

[tigermilk]

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Fuuuuuuccccckkkk. My hear goes out to you, back in the day (about six or seven years ago) my mum put three 3.5" internal drives (40GB, 60GB, 200GB) on top of each other and I lost a hell of a lot of music including rare bootlegs; and a hell of a lot of porn including rare bootlegs!

I was decidedly more vocal about the music and please just leave my shit be.

I noow have three 2TB hard drives that I know I should back up everything on.

So I feel for you mate, but luckily we have people pointing out how they back up all their data which is really helpful!

EDIT: Oh yeah and a 500gb drive died on me about a year ago, I was not amused.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I made several back ups up of my most important datas (mainly some word doc files, some mp3 and other files) onto other alternative storage like on my Ipod or on a blank CD since those infro are not GB size.
Sure it will suck if my 500Gb eternal HD was broken or destory but I wouldn't had lost everything.

 

[No social life]

I feel like the OP's story needs to be elaborated on. It sounds... juicy...

A friend of mine thought that it would be funny if he threatened to drop my external, it slipped out of his hands and about one minute later he had two broken ribs, a black eye and a broken nose and a understanding why most people in my high school class were scared of me, hopefully he wont press charges.

 

[Fappy]

I feel like the OP's story needs to be elaborated on. It sounds... juicy...

A friend of mine thought that it would be funny if he threatened to drop my external, it slipped out of his hands and about one minute later he had two broken ribs, a black eye and a broken nose and a understanding why most people in my high school class were scared of me, hopefully he wont press charges.

Holy crap. That data must have really been important!

 

[No social life]

I feel like the OP's story needs to be elaborated on. It sounds... juicy...

A friend of mine thought that it would be funny if he threatened to drop my external, it slipped out of his hands and about one minute later he had two broken ribs, a black eye and a broken nose and a understanding why most people in my high school class were scared of me, hopefully he wont press charges.

Holy crap. That data must have really been important!

You have no idea, everything from bank documents to irreplaceable photos.

 

[shrekfan246]

6 TB? Wow. I had a 1 TB hard drive decide that it wanted to stop working a few months ago, I wasn't impressed because I had something like 6,000 songs and a lot of video games installed to that hard drive.

Plus it was where I had Fraps and kept all of the videos recorded by it. So, no LPing for me now.

 

[IndomitableSam]

I have an external, then usually just email documents to myself. If it's a movie or something the world won't end if I lose it... but my resumes and things like that go on multiple computers, hard drives, and get emailed to myself and possibly my parents for safekeeping. Because if the internet blows up, having my movies or documents backed up isn't that big of a deal since Skynet happened. Or something.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I don't care enough about anything to be particularly bothered if I lost it. I can't think of any possesions or anything on my computer. Hell, I can't even think of any people I couldn't stand to lose.

 

[Goofguy]

I probably wouldn't be too thrilled either if someone decided to play Michael Jackson with my external too.