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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!

That's bad, I know that feeling

Since that moment I'm doing backups of backups.

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

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

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!!!

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

Mihai wrote: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!

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