A few months ago, I purchased a 1Tb SSD drive for offline backups of my music and pictures. Hiksemi is the make....I should have known a semi is good for nothing as FF a few months and me wanting to copy some music to a USB drive and DEAD!! The godamn POS is dead :-( ! My desktop pics it up but not initialized. What HW is available to try and recover the data? The music can be replaced as I have all the CDs but my pictures are irreplaceable.
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Dimpie (JIGSAW)
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ALWAYS have more than one backup. 
Post a pic of what you see
Post a pic of what you see
Dimpie (JIGSAW)
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Dimpie (JIGSAW)
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^^ Oh ok, I thought you said you could see the pics ?
Depending where you are take it to Southbit (WC) or Tecleo (Gauteng) for recovery.
Conack
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Yep, these drives are rubbish. Have a few dead ones.
It has to be in (at least) two places in order for one to be considered a backup.ALWAYS have more than one backup.
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SauRoNZA
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Sure, but you don't need speed for backups.
Unnecessary cost for high chances of failure due to read/writes.
Would make more sense to have multiple mechanical drives for less money.
Dimpie (JIGSAW)
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^ The price on SSD storage is seriously not that bad anymore ... I don't think I will ever buy a mechanical drive again. 
gregmcc
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Put your data in the cloud. Google photos are free if you are happy with the resolution dropping.
You can even encrypt it before syncing to the cloud if you want to protect it further.
You can even encrypt it before syncing to the cloud if you want to protect it further.
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A few weeks ago I lost some data on my hard disk and then tried a lot of software.
Obviously Recuva was the best choice among the free programs.
But other paid programs such as Disk Drill and iBoysoft do find something extra. How you choose depends on your personal needs I guess.
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Actually, SSDs have lower failure rates than HDDs.
But yeah I agree. Rather use two mirrored HDDs than one SSD for backups.
Mystic Twilight
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There are trade offs, hdd have mechanical points of failure but have no limit (theoretically) on data writes whereas ssd have no moving parts but limited life time on data writes.
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Doesn't really matter at the end of the day, cause the chance of failure is greater than zero in both cases.
Hence two drives. If one fails you're still fine.
Generally, when an SSD dies it DIES because the flash memory itself can become inaccessible. I have never been able to recover a dead SSD.
if you do want to backup to an SSD maybe look at a raid 1 or raid 5 and just to note raid is not a form of backup but it creates more redundancy.
You can also backup to a local NAS or external HDD.
I would then also run scheduled backups off-site to something like https://www.z1storage.com/ which is local S3 and far cheaper than AWS or Azure.
if you do want to backup to an SSD maybe look at a raid 1 or raid 5 and just to note raid is not a form of backup but it creates more redundancy.
You can also backup to a local NAS or external HDD.
I would then also run scheduled backups off-site to something like https://www.z1storage.com/ which is local S3 and far cheaper than AWS or Azure.