Bought new 2 TB WD Blue, put all the random shit I had accumulated from different imageboards since 2018, a month in my headphone got tangled in my chair and as I turned the case fell on its side. Kernel crash, and when I rebooted the drive had died. Can't get the drive to read anything. It still works, so maybe I can get the data saved by a professional but I don't want to risk touching the drive now. It's just sitting in my shelf.

>>108977660
i lost my main system drive, but i had old versions of my most important source code backed up so i was able to mostly recover. i don't even remember what i lost so it wasn't that important

>>108977681
external HDD?

Dropped a lot of money on a 22tb external HDD. 2 months after getting it I left it writing while I went out for 30 minutes. By the time I got back it had somehow fallen over and was clicking like mad. Drive was fucked. Honestly the data loss didn't really bother me more than the amount of money I wasted on the drive itself, the warranty didn't cover any damage from drops/falls so I was shit out of luck.

>>108977694
Nope, internal. Sucks because I kept putting off making a backup, but that's just my own retardation. I could hear the drive spinning but it just can't read anything, so all the data is probably still in there. Maybe it's just a simple board replacement? Dunno. I'm saving up money on the side to get it to a data recovery service, so wish me luck.

I used to have a bunch of equipment on two LACK racks. Couple R750s, very expensive netgear router that fell out of a truck, etc. I had it raised off the floor, had a fire suppression ball, cutoff switch, the works.
A pipe in the ceiling directly above the rack burst and the water stream sprayed directly onto the rack. Fried fucking everything. The one situation I didn't plan for was water coming from above.
Luckily I had an offline backup at my mom's house so I went and picked that up after downsizing dramatically. Can't ever be bothered to do a full rack again and now I run off of a few micro PCs.

Took some photos of my little cat, 2 days later she got mauled by a neighbors dog and died
Tried grabbing the photos I took but the SD card stopped working the same day, fuck sandisk

>>108977660
I was working on an Adobe Illustrator logo for a client for a week. It was going great and as I exported it for review, I placed my hands behind my head and stretched. Then Windows 11 updated, failed, and corrupted my drive.

>>108977721
There is a shock sensor that parks the heads when the drive takes a knock, and I think it might set a flag in the firmware, so try updating the firmware in a pre-boot environment first.

>>108977660
I had 50 gb of 16 year old pizza recipes. Lost them all from data corruption.

>>108977660
was 14 years old, used to save my passwords in a txt file, one day the pc broke and I lost access to a youtube channel where my friends and I did really really stupid shit, some of it illegal, it's been 18 years and old acquaintances still reference those videos, I tried to report the channel and contact youtube but nothing worked, our retardation will live on forever

>>108977735
Clean the contacts and shim the card so it makes better contact with the connector.

>>108977735
was it a nigbull?

>>108977660
Lost my laptop drive which contained four years of mails and chat logs I hadn't backed up (including all conversations with my ex gf), some personal notes and my mod collection for Oblivion. Haven't played it since.

>>108977660
First real HDD I bought. 80GB.
Head crashed suddenly after just a couple months. Nothing to be done about it.

>>108977898
Maxtor?

>>108977767
Only 50 GB after 16 years of collecting pizza recipes? Those are rookie numbers.

The worst was thanks to Akasa hard drive enclosures being badly engineered trash.

My brother and i both had Akasa hard drive enclosures that were bought a couple years apart. They looked a little different but similar, and they both used this really unique and unusual power connector I've never seen on anything else. It was like a barrel jack with four circular pins inside or something.

So, it was a really special snowflake connector and the same exact brand, so i assumed the power brick from my brother's one would work on mine. Nope, the pin out was different and it blew up my external hd, there was a pop and a smell and a skidmark in the enclosure housing where the hd was. Drive totally dead.

It feels as if Akasa designed it for that to happen, the power connector was seriously very special looking, I've never seen anything like it since on anything else. Who wouldn't assume it would work?

I'm just glad it was my hard drive that blew up and not my brother's. I don't know what he would have done to me

>>108977660
My own memory from all the drugs and alcohol.

>>108977660
Lost 3 years of company finance data. My own company (self employed). The stupid part is this happened 2 times, the second one lost 2 years of service reports for clients. Not as essential but good to have to track stuff.
Mandatory monthly backups are not a waste of time and is one of the biggest service you can do to your future self.

>>108977660
Whenever I'm deleting files on a Linux machine I'm in the habit of doing shift-delete to skip the step of emptying the trash. So it's almost muscle memory to do shift-delete, immediately followed by enter.
One time my finger accidentally hit the end key along with it and I wound up deleting everything on the desktop.

>>108977660
back in highschool i used to store all my personal projects on a sandisk flash drive
when i was conscripted into my country's military i was assigned as a armor vehicles technician, i was given an opportunity to escape that by being transferred to the R&D section. i had to show off my old work, and in that moment that flash drive died.
i ended up repairing tanks for almost 5 years
partly because of that

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>>108977660
Was tired and too rough with a SATA cable and snapped the pins clean off a 22TB drive. That was a bad day.

>>108977906
WD I think.

>>108977660
Authorities confiscating my laptop with 200 GB of pizza recipes.

>>108977929
doesn't that mean you are dead if you get an IRS audit?

>tiny corruption on disk
>it hit the exact folder where I stored my writings over the years
I cried.

This thread scares me and I'm too poor for a backup
I need to copy what's on my 18tb external hdd it's been 5 years since I purchased it and I've been using it for torrenting nonstop

>>108977947
divine intervention

>>108977708
Afaik, that must have been a datacenter drive, they're loud and vibrate a lot, they require solid mounting.
It probably did the same thing your phone does when it vibrates on the table.

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>>108977660
I once started to rm -rf my music folder because of a stupid space character in the path. When I realized the slew of deletions that were taking place I stopped it, but by then I'd lost around 30GB of data.

Recently I had pic related happen to my 12TB backup drive. Still not sure what the fuck was the reason, but when I plugged the drive to my SATA to USB adapter the fucking 12V power supply exploded and the circuit breakers went down. Not sure if the data is still there but this tiny chip on the motherboard is fried. At least this was just a backup and the data is safe.

>>108977660
>Whats the worst data loss you've ever suffered?
When my smartphone was stolen and I couldnt log into my Gmail despite knowing the password, because they insisted on sending 2FA authentication to that phone.

>>108977799
>our retardation will live on forever
not actually. eventually those videos will be culled and most people will ree about lost history or whatever but the silver lining is for situations like yours

>>108977708
It was probably your piece of shit cat knocking things over as usual

I've never suffered data loss.
I once thought I lost all my matlab (kek) code from a computational mechanics class, but fortunately I had made a backup after having reinstalled winslop some years ago.

When I was younger, I decided I wanted to clean out my C: drive (win10). I went around the usual places (appdata/program data/programfiles) deleting directories that weren't needed anymore. It went fine, up until I discovered a folder named 'ContentDelivery' (or one of those folders related to Windows update) and decided to nuke it. I figured it was just some sort of old update that had been cached for roll-back purposes. What I didn't realize was that Windows had somehow shifted to booting from that folder (Instead of C:/Windows), and I completely fucked my install, along with most of my data. I still have no clue what precisely happened there.. but I'm still feeling the effects of that old stuff being lost to this day.

>>108977660
how many gigs was there in the jizz again? that

>>108977660
Had a candid on my phone. It got discovered and deleted before I could properly masturbate to it.

>>108977660
gf got ultra mad at being broken up with and tossed my 16tb external hdd out the window, knowing I had loads of important shit there
sued her for damages and downloaded a copy off the cloud a few days later when I replaced the drive

>>108978467
What was the award for damages?

>>108977660
I have an old phone that I forgot the pin code to that has photos of a trip I took with my grandparents 8 years ago. I'll hold onto it and hope I can get into it one day, but it sucks. Some of the photos would have been perfect for my grandma's funeral. I took a really nice one of her and my grandfather.
I learned my lesson and now whenever I retire a device I'll remove the password on it immediately before putting it into storage. Or write it down at least.

>>108978368
how would you lose data from that? it's just a corrupted install with all of the data still there. you could have booted into another operating system and copied your stuff

>>108977660
Had one SSD die spontaneously on me (became completely inaccessible, didn't even appear as connected to the PC) and I lost the source code to a project I wrote, some firmware for a MCU. I was "lucky" that the project was basically finished and the last firmware version was already burned. I still use that MCU to this day, fortunately I never discovered any bug with it so I never needed the code again.

>>108977660
When i tried to kill myself, i wrote a script to wipe my data on a scheduled task.
I failed, the suspension broke while i was unconscious and when i became clear again, the data was gone.

>>108977660
two videos from my favourites on jewtube were deleted
I have been a chronic hoarder since that day

raid array of 3 18tb drives burned to a crisp at random right before prices went up
Still seething to this day I don't fucking know what happened but all 3 died on me...never again will I buy seagate

i just wiped my decade old linux (arch btw) install. not really data loss like your talking about but whatever.

I installed jdownloader in the root directory of an HDD and when I uninstalled that program it started deleting everything in root. I saw what was going on in real time so I could stop it reasonably fast but I wasn't able to recover much.

>>108978714
>seagate
lmao, we all made similar experiences with that horrid brand

>>108977660
>Whats the worst data loss you've ever suffered?
on christmas day 2024, I slipped backwards and hit the back of my head on the tile-on-concrete floor of my kitchen. I was found half an hour later by my uncle unconscious, and attempts to wake me only made me move erratically and sound things incoherently.

on the way to the hospital, they said I kept asking "what time is it? what day is it?" over and over, occasionally asking "where am I?"

I recalled none of this, all I recall was asking the first two questions a only a couple of times in the hospital bed, and apparently I got an MRI and CT scan but I remembered none of it.

a few months ago I found out I had a cat that died that I had absolutely no memory of, but recalled other things from that timeframe. I wouldn't believe it if it weren't for the photos of me raising the cat and him sleeping on my chest and beside my face.

I'd say that was pretty bad data loss. I don't even know if there are other things I forgot.

>>108977660
Lost my uncles gay porn collection including some rare orphanage stuff ft yours truly. We were jerking off together and he had one hand up my ass and another on my shoulder and I came so hard it blew through the side panel/chassis and onto the cmos battery, frying everything and electrifying my ballsack.

>>108978751
The sale was too good but the shit happened right before things went to shit so I'm salty

I spent years collecting DJ CD mix releases from a local DJ. Paid top dollar for missing volumes on eBay, ripped them all to 320 MP3s, and named each track and album title manually.
somehow lost all of these during a Windows reinstall. No idea how it happened, didnt loose anything else. weird.
i still have the CDs, need to rip em

>>108978762

Goddamn, anon.

>>108977721
>>108977681
Rossmann has a data recover service (or he did at least) and it's not extortion-levels of cost like DriveSavers.

I put 1k usd into Dogecoin back in 2014. When the big boom happened years ago, it was worth around 350k. When I go unlock my wallet, my password didn't work.

I never did figure out what the password to that wallet, and I tried very hard to find it, writing scripts to generate billions of passwords based on the common passwords I use. Even went to a hypnotist once.

Oh well. I couldn't have retired on that money anyway. And I bet we're heading to a future where money doesn't matter, whether due to AI or civilizational collapse.

around 2015 i didn't know that android system wipe also wipes external sd card, lost all my old memes

>>108977660
The hard drive on the first PC I bought died in 1999 or 2000, lost everything on it including my fledgling MP3 collection. I've been diligent about backups ever since.

>>108977920
>the power connector was seriously very special looking
Some DIN-style power plug maybe? I have an external HDD dock that can take 5 HDDs and it also has that sort of power connector. They're certainly not common, that's for sure.

>>108977958
I snapped the little L-shaped key off a 16TB drive, fortunately not the connector itself so the HDD still works fine but if I ever take it out or disconnect the power cable I need to be extremely careful since it goes on both ways now with that little bit of plastic snapped off.

SATA connectors (both data and power) really seem like such a fragile, shitty design. No idea why the fuck they're made like this, the power connector is especially bad since a lot of PSU cables are thick and stiff so it's very easy to apply force to a connector when trying to daisy-chain to an adjacent HDD or something. Really awful design.

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>>108977767
>I had 50 gb of 16 year old pizza

>>108977660
In 2010 lost my entire 4chan folder ive been collecting since 2006 an era lost to time like tears in the rain

>>108977660
The worst that happened is one external hard drive turn into raw. I was able to recover what was in there though...

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>had no idea what source control was
>babbys first cs year project
>1 week before hand in
>main copy on usb, other versions weeks old
>GT 220 reaching 90C
>point desk fan at side to keep it cool
>picrel even the same fucking case
>pc on floor
>wheel chair closer to desk
>snap usb losing weeks of work
>all nighter and weekend in college to recover

>be me
>message techdomme on xitter
>she connects to my pc with anydesk
>she veracrypts my D: drive while edging me
>lets me cum after
>she never decrypts it
best orgasm of my life

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I started drinking to forget but then I forgot why I started drinking so now I drink to try to remember what I forgot

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>>108979134
Keked

>>108977660
In 2016 I wanted to encrypt my marshmallow Android phone to be more secure. It had custom roms installed and it was rooted as well. I must-have ignored some warning because it just kept bootlooping and I was forced to wipe it all to 0. I lost 5 years of photos, SMS etc that was carried over across multiple devices. I was a teenager at the time and it hurt

>>108978312
>When my smartphone was stolen and I couldnt log into my Gmail despite knowing the password, because they insisted on sending 2FA authentication to that phone.
did you have alternative 2FA configured?
if not then it is kind of fukken working exactly as intended and idk why you think gmail is at fault

>>108977660
My electric went off and I lost my Minecraft world due to corruption. I had a really cool dock with a house and a cool quarry that I had a rail track to and a cool neither portal room and just so much cool things. I lost it all. Gone forever