Comment on There are people in first world countries with only 1 hard drive
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Interesting. I don’t even know how many hard drives I have, but if I had to guess, at least 15 of them still work, and my 3 top hard drives add up to 10TB and are all effectively brand new.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
Exactly ha. I have like over 15… But my one gamer friend just has his desktop with a 1 tb ssd in it. I’m always confused when he has to install games when i have multiple hundreds installed all the time!
over_clox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Oh I do have even more than that even that probably still work, but the extra ones I didn’t count came from my late father and they’re encrypted. Those drives are in the 80GB to 320GB size range, so no immediate reuse to me, I keep them around for whatever files I can extract off of them whenever I get around to it.
Damndest thing, last year, 11 years after my father passed away, I was actually able to guess his encryption password, because well I knew my daddy ya know, so I have already extracted some of those encrypted files. Mostly personal files of his though, no fun games or anything, but information I’d like to keep regardless.
hexagonwin@lemmy.today 1 day ago
the drives may die at any time from old age, better backup them soon if you can afford it.
starlinguk@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I also have a desktop with a 1tb ssd in it. I’ve also got a backup harddrive plugged into one of the USB ports, though.