Storage & Backup
SSDs, HDDs, NAS boxes, RAID and backup strategies.
guys pls help confession: my only backup of my family photos is File History... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a desktop and a…
ok weird one i opened CrystalDiskInfo out of curiosity and got this for my laptop SSD: Uncorrectable Sector Count is flagged. The drive seems to work fine: files open, no strange noises. But now i cant stop thinking about it. How serious is this?? Do i have…
help!! trying to do a fresh install of Windows on my laptops replacement SSD, and teh installer says there are no drives: it asks me to load a driver, but I dont know which one. the drive shows in teh BIOS, sooo its not completely dead. what am I missing??…
so annoyed rn confession: my only backup of my game captures is a second internal disk... im fairly sure thats not enough, but every guide i find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch... whats a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person with a…
ok weird one added a new NVMe SSD to my PC for extra games storage. its nowhere to be seen in Device Manager: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id really like both drives to work at the…
our household has a few laptops and a desktop with work files, family photos and some scanned documents. i want a backup setup that doesnt depend on me remembering. i understand the idea of 3 copies, 2 media, 1…
ok so this is a good thraed. Two drvies, one small Linux box, family data :D Option A: mirror them 🔥 Option B: use one as primary and teh other as a nightly versioned backup target. Option C: something else? i want to…
ugh. one of the hard drives in my desktop (used for media and backups) has started making occasional clicking sounds, and copying large files sometimes stalls for a second. A SMART tool reports the overall health as…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts a friend's laptop died last week and took years of game captures with it... it scared me into looking at my own setup, which is basically an external drive that I update whenever I remember. I know about the 3 2 1 rule…
Every time I boot, the PC is unusable for ages. Clicking the Start menu takes seconds, apps hang with "Not responding", and Task Manager shows this: CPU and memory are fine. It's the disk pinned at 100%. I'm genuinely close to throwing it out the window.
guys pls help my budget notebook takes forever to become usable after opening the browser... task Manager shows this: Disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge. Clicking anything takes ages. After 15 or 20 minutes it calms down. Its a few years old with a…
ok weird one ive followed every guide olnine: disabled SysMain, turned off Search indexing, even uninstalled some apps. still: the family desktop is pegged after every boot. my patience is gone. is there a way to actually find out whats using teh disk…
im literally losing my mind here my laptop takes forever to become usable after Windows updates. Task Manager shows this: disk at 100%, and teh response time is huge... clicking anything takes ages. after 15 or 20 minutes it calms down... its a few years old…
long time lurker first post lol confession: my only backup of my family photos is cloud storage. I'm fairly sure that's not enough, but every guide I find is either enterprise level or a sales pitch. what's a sensible, low effort setup for a normal person…
ugh. is my drive dying? That's my budget notebook after every boot :) It used to be fine. Now it contsantly crawls and I sometimes hear teh drive clicking softly. I have important documents on it. Should I be worried, or is this a Windows thing? I'm going to…
Got this today: The NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning I've ever seen. Percentage Used went from zero to a small number. Should I replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? I've read conflicting…
got this today: The laptop SSD holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning Ive ever seen. Media and Data Integrity Errors went from zero to a small number. Should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? Ive…
hmmmm ok got this today: the NAS drive holds a lot of my backups and this is the first SMART warning i've ever seen. reallocated Sectors went from zero to a small number. should i replace it right away, or is it normal for a few sectors to go bad? 🤦 i've…
guys pls help is my drive dying? thats my laptop after waking from sleep... it used to be fine, now it constantly crawls and i sometimes hear teh drive clicking softly, i have important documents on it... should i be worried, or is this a Windows thing? im…
My BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, the health tool shows: That's my 4 TB hard drive. Percentage Used is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and teh only other copy is a cloud…
hmmmm ok trying to do a fresh install of Windows on my PCIe 4.0 SSD, and the installer says there are no drives: it asks me to load a driver, but idk which one, the drive shows in teh BIOS, sooo its not completely dead. what am I missing? id rather not spend…
I've followed every guide online: disabled SysMain, turned off Search indexing, even uninstalled some apps. still: the all in one PC is pegged after Windows updates. my patience is gone 😭 is there a way to actually find out whats using the disk instead of…
not gonna lie this is driving me nuts added a M.2 SATA SSD to my PC for extra games storage 🤷 its nowhere to be seen in Disk Management: Also, one of my SATA drives disappeared at the same time. That feels connected but i cant figure out how. Id realy like…
so annoyed rn ive followed every guide online: disabled SysMain, turned off Search indexing, even uninstalled some apps, still: The all in one PC is pegged after opening teh browser :) My patience is gone. Is there a way to actually find out whats using the…
ok weird one my BIOS showed a warning at startup and told me to back up and replace the disk. In Windows, teh health tool shows: Thats my external backup drive. Media and Data Integrity Errors is the highlighted line. i have years of family photos on it and…
