r/datastorage

Anyone encounter a problem like mine before?

My drive storage worked perfectly fine until I use Drive for Desktop to link the local D drive of my company laptop with my Google drive to have flexible access to files from everywhere. Now I realize all my files (previously stored only in cloud form on the Drive - gone), the remains are only the offline files that are linked.

How can I fix it? 10 years of my work and other stuffs.

I started playing with video again. So, I picked up a Lenovo Legion with a TB on board, and it came with a hub that had another TB on it. I thought that would proactively solve any issues I may have for storage. I was so very wrong. I recorded my whole drive from Vegas to San Francisco, so I can go through later and trim out the not-pretty parts. About 360Gb. Transfering from GoPro to hub drive was going to take like, 20 hours. So, I did it from GoPro to desktop (sloow), then from desktop to hub (slooow). Every file I put on the hub was corrupted. So I tried one file from GoPro direct to Hub. Corrupted. So I tried an unrelated file to the hub. Corrupted. If this piece of trash wasn't a freebie, I'd be mad.

But I still have a problem. When driving, I just set the camera and focus on driving... So, big influxes of data. Enough that one day's worth of footage would put a significant dent in my data cap if I used cloud only. And I'm thinking I might want to have 4 or so TB locally, so I can stack up a couple projects without worrying about needing to dump excess footage right away. Though, I don't want to spend a ton of cash on the drive.

So. Suggestions on how to get a few TB of space going, with reasonably quick transfer speeds, and solid reliability without breaking the bank?

I am not very tech savvy, just your average joe with basic computer skills for school and the workplace. My laptop is running out of storage, and I would like to have an external hard drive to store most if not all the personal videos and photos to free up my laptop. I would also like to go as paperless as possible, and I have been thinking of scanning paper documents that are important to keep, but take up a lot of physical storage room. I don't believe that I need much more than a terabyte of storage. I also understand that it is recommended to have many backups just in case. I would like to start with simply finding a good, reliable hard drive. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Not sure if im asking this question the right way, but im curious if there is a device that I can use as a whole home/family hard drive? Tired of paying monthly subscriptions for extra storage on the cloud. Family is operating on multiple platforms(Samsung, Apple, Playstation). Would prefer it be something connected to my the internet so access from anywhere is an option. And having the options to set passwords for individual folders would be even better

Hi y'all,

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but couldn't find one referencing a similar enough timescale/specificity as my situation.

I am using a relatively old laptop (2015 Model) and use it frequently for somewhat intensive stuff (photo editing, music production, graphic design (Blender), intensive data processing and read/writing large amounts using Python.

Due to age/use cases/other factors, my machine is relatively unstable and to avoid losing work due to computer issues like crashing/if something in it does something to my ssd/etc., I backup my data 3-5 times per day/after significant work has been put into somthing. I have been considering a local backup option to add to my cloud backup that I use to increase robustness.

The main reason I was considering an SSD (since HDDs seem to be more suited for backups than SSDs for most purposes) is that due to the frequent reads/writes, the backups would finish in a reasonable time frame/not take significant read resources from my onboard SSD for a longer period due to the bottlenecking(?) from the HDD's rates.

I am just unsure of if I would be more likely to get to the point of drive instability for an SSDs from all thewriting of large amounts of data to the backups from the work I do (python data processing).

Thanks! :)

I lost my student account, since it got deleted. When I contacted the Admin, they told me that the account was automatically deleted since I stored too much in it (~200 GB). When I asked if there was any way I can get it back, they created a new account with the same gmail address. This new account does not have my old data. I really need my old data back, I have enough storage space on my hardisk to store all the ~200 GB. What can I do, please help me.

I got a macbook air m4 last year with only 245 gb of storage. I use the mac mainly for personal use and school. Over the last few months, I’ve started to get interested in gaming a bit. Now that it’s summer, my friend and I decided to play Baldur’s Gate together. However, I did not realize how big Baldur’s gate is. It requires 145 gb.

Now, here is the issue. I cannot reasonably make my mac have enough storage to download the game. Furthermore since I bought the mac recently (and stupidly didn’t get more storage), I obviously don’t want to just get a mac with more storage. What would be my best option now?

Requirements:

Genuine storage (not those "2TB for ₹299" scam masterpieces)

Decent transfer speed

Reliable brand

Preferably available in Amazon/Flipkart or any other trusted ecom site.

If you've personally used one that survived more than 3 file transfers and an existential crisis, please drop recommendations. Help me pls, trying to earn some "dependable employee" points before the next meeting.

Hello. I need your help.

I have a WD Elements 4TB 2621. I've had it for about two years and I use it to back up my personal files (thousands of small files each) and movies and TV series (larger files).

Of the 4TB, I have about 138GB free.

A few days ago, while transferring movies from my Windows 11 to the drive, it started malfunctioning. File transfers were slow, and sometimes the transfer speed dropped to 0 MB/s and the transfer would stall.

After a few days, it stopped working altogether.

Every time I connected it, it slowed down Windows 11 completely. File Explorer is a nightmare; everything freezes, nothing works when it's connected. The system stopped detecting it in File Explorer, but it does appear in other places, for example, in Device Manager.

I've attached screenshots that might be helpful.

Using HDDscan, almost miraculously, I managed to get it to run a SMART scan. If I double-click on the drive, it's no longer detected; it's grayed out at best. Then I entered `chkdsk F: /scan` in CMD, and after almost 3 hours, it said there was an error (surprise, surprise), and then File Explorer recognized the drive. I double-clicked it, and everything froze again.

I decided to do everything again, and when it was detected after `chkdsk F: /scan` in CMD, I tried to expand the drive from the left sidebar, the shortcuts.

I tried using TeraCopy and dragging my personal files folder, which, while large (over 100 GB), isn't much larger than the videos. It spent almost two days slowly loading files, but at one point the program crashed and never progressed again.

I shut everything down so my PC wouldn't suffer any more damage.

I'm not an expert; I need your help to recover my data FIRST and then try to fix the drive. I CAN'T LOSE MY PERSONAL FILES.

I hope you can help me without giving me solutions in "professional" language. Thank you very much.

Hi, I shoot videos at about 1Gb per 10 seconds, so I need a lot of storage.

Right now I have an external SSD to work from, once a project is finished I move those files to a 5TB external HDD, I always keep all my files. I feel like this is not the best way to go (it might be the cheapest atm?)

I have very little knowledge, so I need some help. I think a NAS would be suitable for me, but I have some questions.

If I get a NAS, would any internal HDD work, like the same ones that go into a desktop, or do I need the Ironwolf drives?

If I got a NAS with 4 spaces for drives, could I start with 2 drives, and add a drive later on when I run out of space?

I'm not planning on editing from the NAS, I'll keep using SSD's for that.

What sounds like a nice to have is that I can set up Immich, sometimes I do photography and need to send over pictures to clients, and use Immich as a client gallery (getting a subscription to something like Pixieset is too expensive for how often I need it).

I'm not gonna use remote acces to my files like media streaming or whatever, I only need acces with 1 macbook. I might sometimes make use of access to my photo library using my phone. Does getting a NAS sound worth the investment to you guys?

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