It happens every fucking time

[jo_ka]

I just lost about 2 Terabyte worth of data. All my work files, images, movies, music, just all around stuff! I can't fucking believe this! I can't even express anger, it really feels like someone just died, I feel so very depressed now. I don't want to do anything anymore. Just lay on the ground and cry myself to death. That's over 3 years worth of

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[agentshawnee]

Awe I'm sorry to hear that...

I keep around old hard drives that are dead in hopes of recovering lost info

[breathlightly]

I have one word for you - RAID. Not really though because that would be fucking expensive. I can feel your pain though if my HD crashed I would lose all of my work too. It's almost like in this digital age our identity becomes imprinted onto our computers, especially us digital artists, and we put so much work into our machines that they become our brains. I have memories on this computer that I don't even remember creating but sometimes they pop up in spotlight searches like figments of a dream. Though I did just buy one of those new sexy macbook pros so it looks like I'll be starting fresh pretty soon. I might even install XP!

[jo_ka]

Yeah well part of it was a raid 5, not sure if that data is still good. This machine was my server which was suppose to house everything I own so that I don't have to worry about losing data on my main machine. I mean I had one hard drive for the operating system which I was about to recover, one for torrents, music, and school stuff and the raid was for all my movies, videos, comics, tutorial dvds. It just sucks bawls.

On a lighter note, that is sweet that you got one of the new macbook pros, those things look pretty sexy. You should definitely setup synergy with your laptop and desktop too and get three monitors to look at and two machines to control from one set of keyboard and mouse.