I just want to vent.

[Spacebuns]

Earlier this week, my SSD died, and with that, all of the maps that I've made since 2018 are gone. Aside from obviously losing everything I've ever worked and am I working on, this was extremely painful for a couple of reasons:

• I've only owned this SSD for 2 years, the warranty hasn't even expired
• It's an SSD using the most modern storage technology on the market

I felt betrayed by the technology that I'm supposed to trust the most.

 

[Uncle]

Buy a 4tb HDD and backup everything, that's what I did. Not that you need that much for Warcraft 3 maps. It's a tough lesson to learn but at least moving forward you won't make the same mistake. Also, cloud storage as well, OneDrive, Google Drive, whatever you're comfortable with.

Also, I imagine you archived the "good stuff" on Hive, so at least you have that going for you.

 

[Gnuoy]

Not sure if this applies to SSDs but perhaps a professional could recover some data.

 

[Footman16]

Do you know what caused it to die?

That could help in terms of options of recovery.

 

[Retera]

I think I saw a thread that you created about this earlier. It was implied in the other thread that you could trust no one, so you were going to trash or nuke the drive that died, because it might get you a free replacement.

In my life, my creative works are worth more than the price of hard drives. If you think you would ever encounter someone you could trust, I think if I were you I would save the "dead" drive and buy a new one. The money would buy time to think about if there's a recovery option.

Even if you can't trust a recovery service, and you can't trust most people, if your drive already had Retera Model Studio on there and so you already entrusted your drive and stuff to tens of thousands of decisions that I made for you in the past, in the form of tens of thousands of lines of Retera Model Studio code, then could you trust me to play with the drive and try to recover it even if you can't trust anyone else? Maybe I could buy it from you and try to save it, even though I am not particularly skilled in drive recovery and might not succeed.

These are just some wild brainstorms. In reality it might not help save you, since I'm just some guy on the internet.

 

[FeelMyRash]

Earlier this week, my SSD died, and with that, all of the maps that I've made since 2018 are gone. Aside from obviously losing everything I've ever worked and am I working on, this was extremely painful for a couple of reasons:

• I've only owned this SSD for 2 years, the warranty hasn't even expired
• It's an SSD using the most modern storage technology on the market

I felt betrayed by the technology that I'm supposed to trust the most.

I feel you.

I lost my whole PC due to my graphics card giving out years ago. I wasn't really too far into Warcraft mapping at that time, but I still lost a lot of work.

I did manage to recover some of it, but I still lost a lot. It's very hard to deal with...

 

[Spacebuns]

Buy a 4tb HDD and backup everything, that's what I did. Not that you need that much for Warcraft 3 maps. It's a tough lesson to learn but at least moving forward you won't make the same mistake. Also, cloud storage as well, OneDrive, Google Drive, whatever you're comfortable with.

Also, I imagine you archived the "good stuff" on Hive, so at least you have that going for you.

Yes, fortunately I didn't lose any of the models since they (and the WC3 installation) were stored on a different drive that doesn't have the Windows installation. So I "only" lost the maps, spells and codes.

 

[Unregret]

You can try recovering them using Disk Drill software, I hope you didnt copy/paste something that overwritten hidden data inside your dead disk. If your data can still readable and you only want to recover those small files then very high probability you can recover. G Bless you that you will take them back.

 

[Dr Super Good]

Not sure if this applies to SSDs but perhaps a professional could recover some data.

The cost is usually impractical. Like thousands to tens of thousands of dollars.

Do you know what caused it to die?

Assuming it was not due to flash chips wearing out, it would be due to some corruption with the internal management data structures, or that rare controller fault as flash controllers are CPUs of sorts.

 

[Mint Blancmanche]

I have lost 2 750gb and 4 2tb HDD's, my whole fucking life went to shit, I had stuff that is just not possible to download anymore.
the oldest shit was 30yo and can't be found on the internet because it's shit I made. photoshop/game mods/textures, tons of sound files and music xD.
right now I'm just using the 255gb SSD that's using the system. not in the mood to buy more HDD, literally praying the SSD does not shit the bed.
the HDD's died fairly early on their fucking lives. none lasted more than 6 years, funny enough my first HDD that was only 9gb is still alive.
seems new shit is bad or I'm just cursed lol.
the last 2tb hdd is currently inside the pc but disconnected, whenever I try to retrieve shit from it the computer tries hard to read and open it "10 minutes" if it does not freezes my computer I try to rescue stuff few mbs at a time, or else it stops working before anything is recovered.
for a time wanted to ragequit break the computer (I know it's not his fault, fucking faulty HDD) and move out of the whole computer shit but at this point in life is not possible, unless you sold everything you have and go live in the mountains or some shit lol.
but hey, at least managed to not kill myself :S

my brother also lost a couple of HDD, but he only had trash that can be downloaded at any time (don't know why would he even bother downloading shit) mostly anime garbage and shitty movies/games lol, fucking hoarder as if someday internet would die and he would be able to watch/play shit for the rest of his life lol.

 

[Fleck]

Yea, I experience the same a few years back. My HDD died, I pretty much lost all my custom modding stuff for a different game. And I didn't backup it anywhere so yea it's gone forever and killed my motivation for modding and playing that game. Luckily, my personal stuff like pictures are safe.

Recently, I got a scare. I thought my SDD was dying on me. I don't usually check my task manager perfomance tab. I saw that CPU usage was 100% and SSD too! Usually that are the signs of a dying drive. So I did my own research and observed my task manager for a while. I also started deleting some heavy files to make space for my SDD since I read that having an almost full SDD is bad for its health. I downloaded and used Crystal Disk Info to check the health status of my SDD and other old HDDs. Currently my SDD is Good 93%, HDDs good (no percentage) and one HDD with caution. This one is my oldest drive though. It was a false alarm in the end. Who knew that opening and closing my browser uses up that much CPU usage?

my brother also lost a couple of HDD, but he only had trash that can be downloaded at any time (don't know why would he even bother downloading shit) mostly anime garbage and shitty movies/games lol, fucking hoarder as if someday internet would die and he would be able to watch/play shit for the rest of his life lol.

There's been a recent crackdown on piracy. Honestly, these companies should focus on improving their services instead of this nonsense. When honest consumers have worst gaming experience because of anti-piracy measures like Denuvo that reduce game performance and bloat filesize. Not only that, even if you plan to buy something, you will find it region-locked. For example, I point to PSN and Helldivers fiasco. They relented for now, but mark my words they will continue to push these anti-consumer tactics.

Edit: Also remembered that updating to Reforged pretty much deleted your previous warcraft 3 folder, sending old maps and campaigns to the void, lost forever. Afterall, not all of maps and campaigns came from Hive. There are other now dead war3sites like Diplomunion (this one still exists but no activity). I'm certain that I downloaded some maps and campaigns from there but now I don't see any download links at a quick glance.

 

[Ravager16829]

People complained about broken SSD/HDD, but in my experience, I had 2 cases where HDD got broken on my PC.
First, I got my old 1 TB HDD, which was from 2015. That was the same year when I got my first GPU, which was NVIDIA GT 730 2GB DDR3.
During the summer of 2019, I upgraded my PC from old Pentium CPU in 2011 to Core i5 8th Gen and 8 GB of RAM so that my PC can run GTA 5 and some newer games on High Settings.
That year, my old 1 TB HDD had a bad sector, so I replaced it with 2 TB HDD.
Unfortunately, I had to replace my 2 TB HDD in 2022 with the new 2 TB HDD as that old one suffered from the same bad sector.
Thankfully enough, my old data from my old HDD was saved with some kind of recovery tools.
I'm also pointing out that I currently have 2 SSDs (120 GB and 500 GB). I installed my OS on the 1st SSD back in 2018.
After a couple of years, the 120 GB SSD had a slow down problem in terms of performance (it's not fully dead), so I added 500 GB of SSD with OS a few months ago and now it's working without all issues.

 

[Mint Blancmanche]

People complained about broken SSD/HDD, but in my experience, I had 2 cases where HDD got broken on my PC.
First, I got my old 1 TB HDD, which was from 2015. That was the same year when I got my first GPU, which was NVIDIA GT 730 2GB DDR3.
During the summer of 2019, I upgraded my PC from old Pentium CPU in 2011 to Core i5 8th Gen and 8 GB of RAM so that my PC can run GTA 5 and some newer games on High Settings.
That year, my old 1 TB HDD had a bad sector, so I replaced it with 2 TB HDD.
Unfortunately, I had to replace my 2 TB HDD in 2022 with the new 2 TB HDD as that old one suffered from the same bad sector.
Thankfully enough, my old data from my old HDD was saved with some kind of recovery tools.
I'm also pointing out that I currently have 2 SSDs (120 GB and 500 GB). I installed my OS on the 1st SSD back in 2018.
After a couple of years, the 120 GB SSD had a slow down problem in terms of performance (it's not fully dead), so I added 500 GB of SSD with OS a few months ago and now it's working without all issues.

I heard MAC's are pretty good at raping SSD's, because MAC OS is always doing some stupid shit on the SSD, like paginating crap or something for no reason, just to abuse the disk lol. or prolly sending info back to the company xD
like when you leave windows idle for a moment and it starts working as a fucking server, once you move the mouse it stops lol.

 

[Dr Super Good]

I heard MAC's are pretty good at raping SSD's

Hard to tell as their internal SSDs are proprietary.

 

[Mint Blancmanche]

Hard to tell as their internal SSDs are preoperatory.

propietary my ass, you can simply check the usage of the disk and it will be insanely high.

 

[Dr Super Good]

propietary my ass, you can simply check the usage of the disk and it will be insanely high.

Not in my experience of daily driving a modern MacBook Pro for work. Internal SSD I/O usage is pretty low unless you tell it to do something that needs to use it.

 

[Spacebuns]

Update: I got a free replacement because the model I returned was discontinued. Also according to the manufacturer, my SSD was unsalvageable likely due to a catastrophic hardware error.

 

[JJhonJames]

This is more than a vent, this is a Doomsday Clock. If it died suddenly in 2 years with you, it may happen with everybody else. What can we do other than pray. I feel your pain, like, all the work going to shit, and I feel your pain even more because it should hurt twice the fact that 2 years earlier you bought a SSD with a smile in your face, and trusted your life on it.

To be honest, being stabbed by a human hurts less than by a machine.

 

[Gnuoy]

More reason to upload to Hive.