[Mihai]

Just lost a 1TB drive, of course with stuff I hadn't backed up in a while because of lazyness....hopefully it's just the heads that stopped working, and I managed to find the same model on ebay so I'm going to try and replace the heads. The platters don't have any scratches on them.

Backup every day or suffer!

[T0M0]

That's bad, I know that feeling

Since that moment I'm doing backups of backups.

[Hervé]

I use raid1.. not the best.. but at least I feel safer...

I know how you feel Mihai... been there..

[numerobis]

I had this experience 5 years ago with an external 2.5" drive where the USB-controller failed. And it was some special creation from WD where the controller is directly soldered on the board of the HDD without a SATA port. And the data stream is encrypted so there was no chance to replace the board... This was my last HDD from WD!!!
Now i'm a bit paranoid concerning my data and i use a RAID1 in the server + two removable HDDs (cartridges) as backup... one of them at a separate location. And no proprietary image file format or compression, just plain file copy.

How do you know that it is a head? Sound of a head crash?

Good luck for the recovery!!!

[paulo]

if they are maxwell materials, you can back them up on my hard drive

Just lost a 1TB drive, of course with stuff I hadn't backed up in a while because of lazyness....hopefully it's just the heads that stopped working, and I managed to find the same model on ebay so I'm going to try and replace the heads. The platters don't have any scratches on them.

Backup every day or suffer!

[seghier]

i always lost files and scenes more than 5 TB the last years
sometimes i used recovery softwares to recover some files but now i use acronis to create backup and copy it two times in different disks ; and i use dropbox with other website like yandex ; google drive ; mega website