Your main hard drive just failed. How fucked are you?

Your main hard drive just failed. How fucked are you?

Very fucked.

My main data storage is on the cloud with replication. They wouldn't even alert me if one of the backing drives failed.

If they suffered a huge failure, I still have cloud snapshots.

If they suffered a catastrophic failure, I still have a local copy (but it's probably a month old)

gotta redownload 2tb games over a slow ass connection but my data is safe

I'd lose my vidya game files but that's about it. So not very fucked

it's ok, I don't know actually, have a bunch of shit,but they're probably on Goolge Drive,holy shit I don't even know where my files are, so fucking messy gotta organize shit now. brb

Finally my 4 tb of redundancy becomes usefull

I've just lost 200gb of pictures and webms from Sup Forums and a few different boorus. another 200gb of erotic japanese audio. 500gb of asmr videos and hentai.

everything is on github

I just have the os and drivers/software in the c drive so I would say I'm not fucked.

Not fucked at all. All I have to do is contact SAMSUNG or Amazon and get a free, brand new replacement for my 1TB SAMSUNG 960 Pro.

I completely wipe and reinstall every few months distro hopping anyway. I've never had more than 20% of a hard drive full except one windows drive full of games.

It's alright, I have a back up anyway.

Purest free software ideology

I store everything in RAIDZ2 on my freenas box, and keep offsite backups. So not very fucked.

All my porn and important game saves are stored on an external drive. All I would have to do is reinstall my programs. Losing my rainmeter and wallpaper would annoy me most.

>important game saves

well having my desktop down would be rather annoying and inconvenient but all my stuff is on my server on ZFS mirrors.

I'd lose everything, and I have no backups. I would sudoku.

>main hard drive
What is that?
I have an m.2, ssd and a data storage hard drive.

am ok i store everything on my server thx for asking

So very fucked. I'd lose 6tb of data with no backup.
Years of (unimportant)work gone just like.

Still, that would require all my drives to fail at the same time, as my main hard drive is actually an SSD with almost nothing but the OS.

It's basically just my backup machine so not really. I still have enough money to buy another though.

just wait 4-6 weeks my friend!

in the meantime, purchase a new $1,000 SSD while you're waiting.

this just happened actually

just lost 2tb of storage, but the data is safe in 2 backups

what is a "main hard drive" ?

I don't care about the data on any of my hard drives very much at all.

I have no main drive. Most of my work is done on an iPad Pro, which pulsl most of its data from cloud storage. The data on my cloud storage is also stored on a combination of home server with 20TB spread across six drives, a secondary server that primarily seeds torrents, and a Blu-ray cold storage system. Beyond those, for end-use, I have an iMac and a Macbook Air, which both sync most of their important contents between each other *and* to cloud storage (on a provider distinct from that used by the home server).

I have no main drive. I diversify. It’s the best way to be.

>iPad Pro
fuck off normie

Me, a normie? Shithead, please. I use that iPad Pro as a frontend to manage multiple servers via Microsoft Remote Desktop (which is dramatically better than you’d ever expect). I made my business cards with it. I can scan documents with it. I can handwrite notes and draw figures and diagrams with it. I can take a screenshot, mark it up with the Apple Pencil, and send it to someone in seconds.

You are dramatically underestimating what a person can do with an iPad.

Not having on site backups

Couldn't be worse than my main "drive" in life right?

tfw don't have the balls to end it

RAIDz1 here.
It's fine.

I just lost my Notepad++ unsaved file, and a few fonts. Everything else was on an external. Drivers are gonna be a bitch to reinstall though

I only backup some of my content's titles (mostly books) as a text file to gdrive
Nothing interesting would happens

good thing all my shit is on flash drive and i wiped my computer three times this month

Not really, I backed up all of the files I need on 3 USB drives, a boot recovery disc, and a copy of my OS. I could just get a new Hard Drive.

I had 400btc on there and never backed up my keys.

> live in a third world country where everything is expensive af
> all I have is a retina macbook pro with 256GB SSD
> if it dies, I have a backup in an external drive, but I would need to buy another 256GB SSD, and it would be extremely expensive

>tfw too stupid to do a raid setup
>periodically just copy and paste files onto backup drive
>haven't done it in a while
would be pretty damn fucked

think I'll do it now, thanks for the reminder user

all my important data is backed up, it would only be annoying to re-download all the software i use

fpbp

not fucked. there is almost nothing on my main hard drive.. my os and all important shit is on my ssd

>thanks for the reminder user
This.

Might go out and buy a hard drive to backup all my other drives on.

im on the cloud bruh

everybody ITT is a complete retard.

I currently have

- 1 5TB of just time machine backups
- 1 5TB of time machines and backups of 2TB and 4TB
- 1 4TB of time machines and backups of 2TB and 5TB
- 1 2TB of files

AND just in case the state of florida gets Nuked or EMPd

I have flash drives of essential documents in California, Maryland, and a time machine backup with important files in bum fuck Ohio which has 0 chance of being nuked.

Not very. It depends on what you consider my main hard drive. If my boot SSD is considered, I lose a few game saves and have to spend some time reinstalling everything on a fresh drive. If you strictly limit it to spinning platters, I have four drives that could be considered "main". They're identical and get used an equal amount, because they're in RAID 5. I'd just need to swap the drive and rebuild the array.

I'm fine, it's raid 1
All other data is stored on vms running on my server with raid 5
Also have offline backups of said vms
Also take offsite backups to my office.

just had one
lost old video game files, 20 gigs of skyrim/new vegas mods
200 gb of music
500 gb of tv shows/movies
the rest of the 2tb was xxx
not a big loss desu, I have nothing of value

Noooooooooooool!

Not very. Just need to buy a new SSD to replace it and reinstall base Gentoo then copy configs back over and rebuild.

Gonna cost $100 plus a day of time to get everything back to normal. Sorta kinda fucked.

The one my OS is on? I get a new one and reinstall the OS and my programs.

I'm mildly annoyed. I think Microcenter is closed right now so I'd have to wait until tomorrow to pick up a new SSD and restore my backup from 16 minutes ago to it.

Just use my warranty and have SamShit send me a new 850 tbqh

That would actually suck hard; Win7 is a bitch to install on Skylake. I needed to do a live transplant of the install between my old and new PCs.

I'd warranty it out and get a new one shipped in a few days. I'd lose a few programs and my OS, but nothing an afternoon wouldn't recover. In the meantime, I'd just use my LiveUSB to keep shitposting.

Thank you Linux.

That actually happened a few months ago and the answer is not fucked at all because I just keep Windows and commonly used programs on it.

>rainmeter
Fuck that takes me back a decade.

>all school files are on 1 TB cloud storage provided by my school
>none of my configs are backed
I'd have to reinstall Windows, Arch, redownload and reinstall all of my software (Vivado, Mathematica, PyCharm, Office, games, a lot of other random utilities) and reconfigure everything. So I'd be fucking pissed and irritated, but I wouldn't be fucked.

Not fucked at all, just wiped it and installed w7 anyway.

Finally a chance to buy an ssd too

I'd lose my stalker photos of qt girls that I've been collecting over the years.

I'd also lose quite a few projects. I keep a local copy of every freelance job I complete for future reference.

Apart from that, I have nothing else unreplacable.

Automatically backing up everything important to a RAID partition. This question is so September 10th

boot drive is imaged daily onto a RAID 10 storage array, which is backed up remotely. i'll be fine.

Not too bad, it would be an annoyance for sure but I would only have to image a new drive and go from there. I only keep the OS on my main drive and keep data on separate drives backed up.

>main hard drive
>HDD
better kill you'reself right now

I lost a single day's worth of saved images from here.

Never 4get

>main hard drive
>anything other than a hard hard drive

>anything other than a hard hard drive
It's almost like you like slow read write.
Gotta get a SSD Baka.

For me it'd Wangbotnet 10.

>TFW you loose rare Pepe's that explicitly warned you not to save them

Meme magic

rip my empty dogecoin wallet

It's impossible for your main hard drive to be a solid state drive.

I don't have data

Are you retarded or am I being pranked
What is your reasoning behind that

SSDs are not hard drives, they're SSDs.

I have a full disk backup but its from months ago, thanks for the reminder!

God you autists are annoying
Your stupid witty reply only make sense to that anons first reply anyway
Also solid state hard drives exist

Not very, All my important stuff is backed up and most of what is on this computer is very replaceable.

>solid state hard drives exist
>solid state hard drives
A hard drive is an HDD, a hard disk drive. A solid state drive is not a hard drive. It is not a solid state hard drive. It is a solid state drive.

It's in a RAID 5 so I'm fine.

>impossible for your main hard drive
Hmm I don't see the word disk anywhere there
And idk ssds seem pretty hard to me

>Hmm I don't see the word disk anywhere there
That's where the term came from, you fucking summerfag. If it's a hard drive (HDD/hard disk drive), it's not an SSD (solid state drive). End of story.

You sure seem triggered for being such a nitpicking autistic Mongol
I'll call my 850 evo a hard drive and there's nothing you can do about it
Faggot

>when you use two caviar green and no backup

Home server as NAS with redundancy in case of hdd failure. Cloud backup of family photos and such in case of fire. Literal offsite safe backup with usb hdd gets updated every week in case of no internet. Physical copies of important things and photos stored at various off site locations in case of disaster. I also mail photos to my parents of my kids etc. so copies at their houses as well also in case of disaster. Really important data is shipped by various means to various places in case of insurance.

Not screwed over. I just recently backed up my important files. All is good. It be nice to get at least a 1TB SSD soon. I have a very strong feeling that my main HDD is gonna give out soon. (I know it will)

lost all my hentai damn

I have a external drive backup and a backup in another house computer I use as seedbox so meh
My backlog drive is backed up as well so I could only lose the disposable torrents drive

Is the main drive the one with the OS?
I'd be just fine. Buy new drive, install OS.

Everything is backed up on multiple drives.

I already lost 8TB of data last November.

>get a new one
>roll out binary OS partition backup on it
job done

Oh and I suppose that "main" is the one with os on it, otherwise there is no main drive in my system.

I would lose music and movies.

I wouldn't care about the music since I have a spotify account.

I wouldn't care about the movies since it's really just hundreds of shitty 720p axxo rips which I never watch.

This is why I don't backup.

I have some important documents, but I keep those in the cloud.

i swap in my cold spare and resync

sort of fucked, all my media is on other drives but my appdata and some non backedup programming projects are on the drive

RAID1 with weekly scrubbing and rsync to a backup drive.
I'm fine.

>Your main hard drive just failed. How fucked are you?

It honestly would not matter to me, not even a little. It's happened a few times before.

My / is a raid1 on a SSD and a HDD in write-mostly. The storage is raid6. One HDD dying means nothing. I'm more worried about something like a fire or other major disaster. One HDD can die, no problem. The entire computer being stolen by criminal policemen (has happened before) and fires and things like that is a bigger worry. I have the most important stuff off-site but some things I would like to keep isn't practical to back up off-site.

I would be mad since I'm planning to make a NAS soon. Already assembled the computer, still need disks to fill it and probably could do some downclocking. Since I'm going to make RAID6, it doesn't really matter if I get cheap disks, right?

I got my 8GB of important data on usb and in the cloud. Everything else is just bullshit that can be downloaded again.