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Azera
3800 Posts
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.    | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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. | ||
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GTPGlitch
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
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? | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
On February 09 2013 01:18 Roe wrote: 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. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
 ![[image loading]](http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d113/DJZapZ/Iloveyoubro_zps776087e8.jpg) Also I have external HDs where select important files are stored. I wuv it. | ||
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ahswtini
Northern Ireland22213 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
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Melwach
Germany176 Posts
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. . 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. | ||
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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Iranon
United States983 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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. | ||
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Aerisky
United States12129 Posts
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farvacola
United States18866 Posts
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sam!zdat
United States5559 Posts
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Cokefreak
Finland8096 Posts
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. | ||
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gaymon
Germany1023 Posts
And why would u safe all that music anyways with pages like grooveshark.. | ||
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TheAmazombie
United States3714 Posts
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. | ||
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Djzapz
Canada10681 Posts
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.. 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. | ||
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MasterOfPuppets
Romania6942 Posts
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.. 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. :/ | ||
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