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dude, the Cloud is coming. I used to run more machines at home but then had to support them.

I actually DON'T CARE about the device storing my data. You're thinking very small and non-scalable - I'm thinking that iDrive uses NetApp or some other scalable and fault-tolerant storage system with lots of flashing lights - this allows them to ramp up your account easily.

My Internet connection is 20Mbps. But I am not using iDrive for accessing files but rather allowing me to backup and restore from the Cloud if shït happenz. Aiii.

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I use Norton Ghost, backing up onto a 1TB USB Hard Drive.

One time, I'd literally just finished the backup of my laptop, when the drive died. Popped a new drive in. Restored the laptop to factory settings, recovered the backup onto the new drive. Wonderful!

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They are here already as it's dark, cold and gloomy outside

Point taken.

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I use http://www.goodsync.com/ meets my current needs fine.

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I achieved the same when my HDD went titsup. Acronis True Image was my saviour. Restored to the new disk over the network in 20 minutes

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Old thread I know

Some long time ago I backed up all my photos on a 3.5 1TB HDD SATA, in an enclosure.

Today I wanted to recover some photos, plugged in my enclosure, switched on and no USB connection, the LED in the enclosure lights up.

I have my external power adapter plugged in to a wall socket and it has a 12v 2.5a supply so should be plenty as the disk only rquires 0.52a but so far as I can tell the disk is not spinning.

The circuit board that is part of the hard disk gets warm so something is happening.

The disk does not have a built in LED to show it is healthy and the blue light on the enclosure lights up even when the HDD is not plugged in.

It looks like I will have to scrap the disk.

Edit: Now the blue light has expired.

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I fried one when I plugged the wrong voltage adapter in…

With hard disks, I’ve it is good to have them running at least once every few months to keep everything running smoothly. I’m not sure how true it is.

You could try a different enclosure in case it is the enclosure that is the problem. Or plug it into the computer directly if it is a PC.

Note that hard disks have a large startup current draw requirement so maybe the 2.5A isn’t enough.

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My HDD with my photos died last month.
My PC’s NVMe SSD died a couple of weeks ago.
(There were signs previously but I thought they were Windows 11 problems).

I’ve ordered a new NVMe module to get the PC up and running again and I’m going to try a few days recovery apps before sending the broken SSD module back as it is under guarantee.

I’ve still got two more back ups but have lost some data on the SSD.

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All my photos are on iCloud and mirrored in google photos. Files exist on google drive, MS onedrive and iCloud. I probably pay several hundred a year on cloud storage but feel pretty backed up (3 separate companies for redundancy) without having to rely on physical drives.

The added benefit of having photos and videos solely in the cloud is that indexing, searching, face recognition etc.. is all seamless e.g show me all photos containing a blue car.

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That sounds like a Catchca.