Buddy died 5m ago. I guess I have a new coaster :3

This poor laptop drive was serving me well as a jank storage pool on my Nas for almost 8 years now and today it died.

Edit: Coasters and fridge magnets acquired

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New fridge magnets
Hopefully your shit is backed up
- It was making weird noises for a long time, so I had enough time to move the data off it.
  
  Thats what scares me about SSDs. No moving parts to indicate imminent failure
- Remember the freezer trick? Dead drive? Freeze it for 6 hours inside a zip bag and then, if lucky, you will get one final spin to copy your Docs folder.
  
  Worked for me a couple of times.
Disassemble it. Use the disks as decorations. Make it into a wind chime and hang it outside your window.
- Nooo careful, everyone will know you're a nerd. Even the birds will shun you
  
  I'm cool with that.
750Gb? That was a good era.

o7
- I dont know what to do with all the space I have left. Maybe I'll get into backing up 4k uhd blurays
16 years old? Nice

I have a 2006 drive that's still chugging along. IDE at that, haha
- Where did you get 16 years from? The drive says date of manufacture as 2012. 12 years is still a pretty good run for a laptop spinner though.

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