Lane Sawyer🌹

Got a #HDD dying on me, explains my recent OS instability. This is my first drive to start dying in my 20-odd year computer building career!

My first PCs drives were so tiny that I got rid of them given advancements in storage, which is when I got this dying drive. Its 2TB storage space has served me well for a decade!

Time to finally dig out the leftover #SSD drives on my second PC that is sitting unused in the corner.

May 20 at 6:10amMastodon for Android
Show threadCameron Bielstein5d ago
@lanesawyer The first time?? Almost unbelievable. Welcome to the club. Clone that thing before it completely kicks it.
Show threadLane Sawyer🌹5d ago

@cbielstein Yep, it's copying! Fun part is I can't convince the OS there is space even after deleting a couple GB of downloads so it won't save the settings to keep it from falling asleep.

I've been sitting on the couch reading and shaking the mouse every five minutes for the last hour 🤣

Show threadCameron Bielstein5d ago
@lanesawyer You're running the OS on the dying drive? If that doesn't keep working, you can flip the script. Boot from something else (even a USB stick) and then copy between drives that aren't online for the system. Likely less stress on the disk and faster copy speeds if virtual memory isn't paging and stuff in the meantime.
Show threadLane Sawyer🌹5d ago
@cbielstein No luckily this is just my documents drive (that gets fully backed up monthly) where /home is mounted. The config for sleep lives in /home though 🫠
Show threadCameron Bielstein5d ago
@lanesawyer Scary stuff, even with the backup. But hopefully the swap to SSD is nice for you. 😊
Show threadMikered4d ago

@cbielstein @lanesawyer With HDDs I've got used to having some warning as the drives gets flaky, giving some preparation andchance to recover data.

Every SSD failure has been instant death without warning though 😬

Still, backups should mean it's an inconvenience, not a disaster!