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Anyone else have a similar experience with one of these drives?

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[–] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's why you don't trust refurbished media.

[–] amorpheus@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Don't trust media, period.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 year ago

BRB setting up sync for my OS drive!

[–] A_A@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Oh, okay, they just lost 3TB 😋
Fiew ... it could have been 4.

[–] Chev@lemmy.world -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Got my gf a 2TB version. She also lost most of her files after 1 month of usage. She uses MacOS. But it's probably to some degree of personal failure. So not sure if this is relevant.

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[–] FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If the data doesn't matter: Put it on one drive.

If losing the data would cost you minor downtime: Put it on two drives (or storage arrays of some sort) in two locations.

If losing the data would cause major downtime: Put it on three drives (or storage arrays of some sort) in two or three locations.

If losing the data would cause life-disrupting issues for multiple people: Put it on as many drives as possible/feasible (or storage arrays of some sort) in enough locations that you can sleep well at night.

Edit: weird thing to get a bunch of downvotes, but you do what you want with your data

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