This poor laptop drive was serving me well as a jank storage pool on my Nas for almost 8 years now and today it died.

Edit: Coasters and fridge magnets acquired

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Hopefully your shit is backed up

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It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.

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Thats what scares me about SSDs. No moving parts to indicate imminent failure

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Well, you should be replicating /backing up data regularly anyway.

All data on my mobile devices is synced to a server, which replicates locally to 2 other storage devices, and is backed up to a cloud storage.

I largely use Syncthing for mobile devices (even Windows laptops), so I’m always using a single tool/process (less confusion this way).

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All SSDs have SMART rapports that show the percentage of terabytes written. All of them have a max amount of tbw before they enter read only mode so your data is mostly safe.

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Remember the freezer trick? Dead drive? Freeze it for 6 hours inside a zip bag and then, if lucky, you will get one final spin to copy your Docs folder.

Worked for me a couple of times.

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