Damn, my mind is spinning and I feel light-headed. Granted, I've been feeling this way since last Sunday and I am exaggerating, but still.

My hard-drive recently failed and I lost all my data. I was a stupid idiot and didn't back up any of it. I lost all 650Gigs of my music and that's what hurt the most. I've been building that damned library for 3 years and now it's all gone. What's worse is that I can't re-torrent them all because my UL/DL ratio on my tracker will tank and I'll be banned from the site.

Sigh. Back up your data and don't be an idiot.

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

February 08 2013 15:57 GMT

I know the feeling man. I work in IT and we deal with this stuff all the time. It is well worth the money for good online cloud storage...cheaper than setting up network storage or buying extra hard drives and everything. I have a media drive, about the same size as yours listed, that when/if I don't have a good backup of, I am worrying.

In the end though, it is just data. While it is awesome to have, it is not life or death. Don't fret too much over it.

GTPGlitch

5061 Posts

February 08 2013 16:02 GMT

Ouch, sorry that sucks man

Roe

Canada6002 Posts

February 08 2013 16:18 GMT

On February 09 2013 00:57 TheAmazombie wrote:
I know the feeling man. I work in IT and we deal with this stuff all the time. It is well worth the money for good online cloud storage...cheaper than setting up network storage or buying extra hard drives and everything. I have a media drive, about the same size as yours listed, that when/if I don't have a good backup of, I am worrying.

In the end though, it is just data. While it is awesome to have, it is not life or death. Don't fret too much over it.

what exactly is the cloud? isn't it just more hard drives somewhere else?

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

February 08 2013 16:24 GMT

On February 09 2013 01:18 Roe wrote:

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what exactly is the cloud? isn't it just more hard drives somewhere else?

Yeah, but the difference is that most cloud services are supported by multiple backups, mirrored drives, ghost images, or other various services so that if their hard drive fails, you will never know and should lose any information.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

February 08 2013 16:31 GMT

I've had an unfortunate event too. Now I'm careful

Also I have external HDs where select important files are stored.

I wuv it.

ahswtini

Northern Ireland22208 Posts

February 08 2013 16:32 GMT

I backup all my important stuff every week, only takes a bit of time and I guess I can still work during it.

cLAN.Anax

United States2847 Posts

February 08 2013 16:43 GMT

Always been too lazy to do this, and I've been very fortunate to not have to deal with it, but this is an important thing to do and should not be neglected. Thanks for sharing this, and I hope and pray you are able to recover from this and avoid any future catastrophes.

Melwach

Germany176 Posts

February 08 2013 17:05 GMT

On February 09 2013 00:55 Azera wrote:
I lost all 650Gigs of my music and that's what hurt the most. I've been building that damned library for 3 years and now it's all gone. What's worse is that I can't re-torrent them all because my UL/DL ratio on my tracker will tank and I'll be banned from the site.
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Well, some of your trouble could have been avoided if you had actually bought some of your music. Sounds like crazy talk to most people, I know

But yeah, generaly that sucks hard. I'm lazy about my backups too. Guess I'll just learn it the hardway when it hits me aswell.

surfinbird1

Germany999 Posts

February 08 2013 17:20 GMT

#10

Shit, that reminds me. Brb

Iranon

United States983 Posts

February 08 2013 17:48 GMT

#11

A lot of that music can probably be saved; I've had two external and three laptop HDDs die on me in the past several years, and except in one case, hooking it up to a second computer with some file recovery software worked wonders. Of course, random parts of random files will be irrevocably corrupted, and in many case you won't know that until you try to open them, but it's worth a shot.

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

February 08 2013 18:27 GMT

#12

Once upon a time, I had many many compact discs. I thought to myself: "sam, now that it's the future, shouldn't these be digital?" "Yes!", I thought.

So I put the compact discs into the computer. One at a time. They were assimilated. Their souls were too big for my computer's soul-box, so I had to get an external soul-box to keep them in. How nice! The souls traveled through a string into the soul-box, but the string was not that wide, and so it took some time.

It took many moons to assimilate all the souls. Finally, I was done. "Hooray!", I thought. In my joy, I knocked the soul-box off of the table and it fell onto the ground. The soul-box cracked, and all the souls leaked out. "Alas", I thought.

Aerisky

United States12129 Posts

February 08 2013 18:51 GMT

#13

Are you just having fun or are you genuinely of the belief that digital storage is an ostensibly soul-draining method of information storage that plays into your concept of anti-consumerism? Both would seem equally samizdat lol.

farvacola

United States18835 Posts

February 08 2013 18:54 GMT

#14

"Keep your souls in loose hand, both in and out of grasp. Nothing remains held forever."

sam!zdat

United States5559 Posts

February 08 2013 18:59 GMT

#15

Aerisky I don't understand your question

Cokefreak

Finland8095 Posts

February 08 2013 19:00 GMT

#16

I've been building that damned library for 3 years

I've been building mine since the late 90's, I would probably die if it was to disappear.

gaymon

Germany1023 Posts

February 08 2013 19:02 GMT

#17

Why would u create a blog about losing ~10000 songs which you illegally downloaded ?
And why would u safe all that music anyways with pages like grooveshark..

TheAmazombie

United States3714 Posts

February 08 2013 19:09 GMT

#18

On February 09 2013 04:02 gaymon wrote:
Why would u create a blog about losing ~10000 songs which you illegally downloaded ?
And why would u safe all that music anyways with pages like grooveshark..

For me, I have been a musician and collector of local and underground music since the 90s...not to mention all of the bootlegs and live shows. Those are things that you can't just replace or find on grooveshark or other streaming services. It would be upsetting to me if I lost all of that, but at the same time, that is the risk you take in digital storage...especially without backups or cloud service backups.

Djzapz

Canada10681 Posts

February 08 2013 19:40 GMT

#19

Grooveshark is limited. I can't put those songs on my phone, I can't download the songs with fancy bitrates or uncompressed for my sound system, I have to put up with the limited selection and the clumsy UI. MP3 and flac files on my computer are convenient and if I lost them, there are songs in there that I could never find again.

MasterOfPuppets

Romania6942 Posts

February 08 2013 19:53 GMT

#20

Why would you post here just to be a condescending douche to a random internet stranger? Did you even consider that maybe the music he listens to is very hard to come by? Or better yet, maybe he doesn't have the money to spend on that much music?

I've said it many times and I'll say it again, a true fan who can't buy your music but supports your band is infinitely more valuable than a poser who buys the record, thinks its crap and goes back to listening to the radio's top 40 of the week.

I feel for you Azera, as someone who absolutely loves music, I really really do. Guess I should be investing in an external HDD at some point in the near future. :/