Screw Anime! (or why you should always format your hard drive)

"Anon" (tjsielsistneb)
09/15/2014 at 16:47 • Filed to: None

So I bought a 240gb HDD for my Macbook today however after 3 hours I still haven't taken it out of the box.

As I'm sure most of you could of guessed, I have a large amount of anime on my computer 156gb of the shit to be exact. So I wanted to make a backup of my computer minus my anime because it would take up too much space on the SSD. So I decided I should transfer all of it over to my 1tb external drive though a slow ass usb 2.0 port which ended up taking an hour. I then attempted to set up my HDD as a backup for my internal Hard drive so I could just load my crap right back onto my new hard drive. No dice. My HDD is the wrong format and I can't change it without deleating everything on it and of course I deleated the anime folder as soon as it transferd! So now I'm sitting here waiting for this 156gb file to transfer back to my mac so I can format my HDD so I can transfer the 156gb back AGAIn over to the HDD! Then I have to transfer another 150gb worth of files for back up and then Back to my new hard drive! If you're keeping tabs this means I'm in total going to be transfering around 1TB of data on a shitty USB 2.0 connectipn because of this stupid, stupid SSD!

DISCUSSION (8)

jariten1781 > Anon
09/15/2014 at 16:58

You need a NAS box.

Battery Tender Unnecessary > Anon
09/15/2014 at 17:00

My "backup" (old) computer started smoking the other day. The Molex to SATA power adapter that connected to the Samsung SSD I had installed earlier this year had decided to melt. I got it turned off immediately but there was melted plastic on the power contacts. I carefully cleaned it but it appears the SSD is dead. I keep all my itunes content on a WD Green 2TB drive but the actual itunes library file was on the SSD, along with some choice in-progress photoshops. Now I have to import a completely unorganized itunes library (12 years worth)...ugh.

RazoE > Anon
09/15/2014 at 17:04

"Anime"

NaturallyAspirated > jariten1781
09/15/2014 at 17:18

This. Grab an old PC, slap an old copy of FreeNAS on it, and stick it in the garage/basement/whatever.

Or, if you're a huge nerd like I am, install a heavy-duty RAID controller, four WD Red drives in RAID 10, put it in a 4U rack case, and run a full install of CentOS =P.

(/bin/bash 4 lyfe)

GhostZ > Anon
09/15/2014 at 17:20

I had a 128GB SSD that worked great... until the $2 USB cable that was attached to it stopped functioning, and there was no way to replace it.

jariten1781 > GhostZ
09/15/2014 at 17:31

You couldn't just splice and heatshrink?

GhostZ > jariten1781
09/15/2014 at 17:39

I don't have time (or the tools) for that!

But seriously, I'll fix it eventually, but it just pisses me off that someone who builds a reliable SSD can't get decent cabling. I should have spent more and gotten something a little better engineered. Lesson learned.

tromoly > Anon
09/15/2014 at 17:41

There's a Linux Live CD that can do all of this, can't remember if GParted can do the whole backing up thing or not.