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:Disaster...
I'm gonna keep this short because I feel like absolute crap right now.
A few days ago, one of my hard drives decided to just die on me. Thankfully—by the power of friendship—it wasn’t my Honey Select 2 drive, which holds all my in-game work: character cards, designs, renders, Ren'Py scripts, and coding.
So, phew, right? Nope. Not even close. What I lost was just as bad—if not worse. My Unity/DAZ3D drive, the one with all my custom mods and assets for the games, is gone. We’re talking nearly 1 terabyte of stuff I’ve collected, built, and poured my soul into over the last four years. Not just my own work, but also assets and mods I created for other devs I’ve helped along the way.
"But Nii! Don’t you back up your stuff?!" I do—for my HS2 drive, which alone takes up 2 terabytes, maxing out my external backup. But this? I never saw it coming. That drive was barely a year old, showed zero signs of failure, and then bam—I boot up my PC, it freezes, and suddenly, BIOS doesn’t even recognize the drive anymore.
At first, I thought it was my OS drive, which wouldn’t have been a big deal since it’s nearly three years old and doesn’t hold anything important. But nah, of course not—it had to be one of my newest drives, one of the two that mattered most.
I tried every trick in the book to recover my data, but nothing worked. Sure, I could take it to a data recovery company, but the cost is insane. At that point, it’s just not worth it.
Now, I’m stuck with a mountain of work. Tons of assets still need to be ported for the next update, and to top it off, I have to rebuild my entire modding tool from scratch. Some purchased assets can be redownloaded, but the ones I made myself are forever GONE. And I have to somehow remember and track down all the tools I used.
Is this a setback? YES. A massive one. Not just for game development, but for my sanity. The sheer evil in me just wants to slam my head into a wall and scream.
Going back to the intro—I feel like absolute garbage. I don’t even know where to start rebuilding all of this.
And as for the update? I don’t know. I’m not in the right headspace to answer that right now. The good news? All my development progress is safe. The bad news? I need to drag myself out of this mess and somehow piece everything back together.
Right now, though? I’m just a pile of stress and regret.
NiiChan Dont you have like ... small computer shops in your country?
Where im from you could just bring your hard drive into one of these shops and they will recover lost data for like 50-100€ which sounds like nothing compared to 4 years of work
Just an idea, you probably considered this already
Where im from you could just bring your hard drive into one of these shops and they will recover lost data for like 50-100€ which sounds like nothing compared to 4 years of work
Just an idea, you probably considered this already
Niuul
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Pretty much this. All the shops around me as well are pretty cheap. "At this point it's not worth it", it actually is. Dropping 75/150 bucks to recover data off your drive or having to possibly spend hundreds of hours redoing things.
For rebuilding the modding tool, it'll only take a couple of days at most. The data lost doesn't really matter if I can continue working or not. It was but a 4 year worth of asset collection. Still depressing AF. As for recovery, if it's only as cheap as $100. It ranges from $600-$2000 here. A lot of people wanted to contribute to the recovry, but I can't take it. Save that for something much, much important and critical.
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Never trust an HDD drive to store important stuff. Maybe it's okay for backup only or redundancy with 2 hard drives or more
An SSD on the other hand, usually when it's dying, it turns to read-only mode to preserve data (not always though)
I learnt that the hard way too
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The kicker is, it was an SSD. SATA, but still...Never trust an HDD drive to store important stuff. Maybe it's okay for backup only or redundancy with 2 hard drives or more
An SSD on the other hand, usually when it's dying, it turns to read-only mode to preserve data (not always though)
I learnt that the hard way too
I did some heavy workload in it, maybe that's why? I'm not a very techy guy.
I initially bought it as storage for HS2 and all other work stuff, but it got crowded. I bought NVME for the HS2 drive and kept the Unity and DAZ works in that dead drive. Did I stress it out too much...?
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Please tell me it's not a Samsung SATA SSD. I'm planning to do the same in the future since TB-sized NVMEs are hella expensive from where I'm from.
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Im sorry that happened to you, The only SSD that died on me was an Nvme, for the future, you can always use software like HDSentinel if you cant buy it you can use a cracked version; with it you can know the health of your drives and predict future failures it's very easy to use
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/stares at this post
/slowly glances at my "to-buy" list for PC parts and sees the same exact SSD model on said list
...Well shit. And here I thought their SATAs are safe and reliable and all that.
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The Samsung ones are overheating, not by much; the max is around 57-58
The Kingstons are degrading faster its expected from a low-quality SSD at 60% Health You need to think about changing it or at least backing up data