It so does. So much stuff has been lost. From this game, I had around 200 presets I'd been working on (and one in particular of a YouTuber that turned out PERFECTLY) are all gone now. There's all my thesis work for the last 2 years, all my political writings, a 300 page story I'd been writing for the last few years, all the photos from my uncle's last visit from Scotland (he's dead now, and my aunt, so no more of those). TONS of music and videos, all my other artwork...
It's quite devastating. I have one last straw to clutch at, though. My brother works for Stantec, and they're pretty high tech. It's POSSIBLE he can get his tech people to recover it. Of course, that means keeping the old drive, which means I can't claim the warranty on it, so another $200 for a new drive.
On another note, let me ask the more tech savvy a question...
It was my understanding an SSD was more reliable than a traditional HDD, because there's no moving parts. What I'm hearing and seeing while looking for ways to save my data is that the OPPOSITE is the case. SSDs wear out faster and are nearly impossible to recover things from. Is this true?
If this is true, should I get rid of my external backup SSD, and replace it with a traditional HDD?
(side note: I checked in to see if anything had changed, I see it hasn't, and don't expect it to, shame but it needed rebuilt badly)
Both can be and are true. HDDs are more likely to fail, and assuming the head doesn't crash into the plate and obliterate it, they can often be recovered via a number of different methods, from plate swaps to freezing and other tricks in between, depending on how it is failing/failed. An SSD, while having no moving parts, is typically many times less likely to fail. Some models are definitely an exception to this, as some controllers on them are horrible and are to be avoided at all costs.
As long as you aren't writing to the SSD excessively, it's not typically a real world concern. I babied my first ssd, moving the swap file off to a HDD, etc., to minimize excessive writes, but realistically, that was dumb as it negated some of the speed increase.
In some cases, it may be possible to recover the data. I've heard of controllers being swapped to recover data in certain models, and might be other ways, but in practical terms, it's generally probably not worth the cost and is more likely to be unrecoverable. The risk from HDD and SSD failure is why backing up is so necessary, especially of important files. It's not likely to happen, but is catastrophic when it does.
Definitely a painful result just considering the pictures and thesis.
If it's possible to recover, though, it definitely beats the warranty value to just try as long as you aren't paying the cost of a house.
I've had far more issues with HDDs over the years than SSDs failing and arriving DoA.
Nothing is 100% reliable, and if it's always connected, it's not a true backup. On a tangent, HDD's are cheaper to have as backups
I kind of have to ask, and not trying to come across as too judgmental.. were all those things not backed up to a different drive then? (I ask this, knowing I have files not backed up... and had a close call with a hdd failing last year, only warning I had were silent errors in windows event log)
And what you said seem like I'm gonna code or something
