chkdsk scrambled my video files

[UsandThem]

I'm still not going to make backups. Just have to start replacing the drives with ones that last 20 years or more. Ofc this will lead to the old drives going in a drawer, so backup achieved as well. And I'm disabling chkdsk on all drives so that thing never runs again

That sounds like a nothing can go wrong plan to me.

Ultimately it's your data, so you can risk losing it as much as you want to you. For any other new user out there who is considering this method, just don't.

 

[}{eywood]

We should be able to trust companies to make these things right. You buy a washing machine or refrigerator it lasts the rest of your life or more (I have my grandmother's washing machine from the 60s and it works fine). Computers should be the same. But we live in a disposable culture where everything is crap and a TV lasts 5 years instead of 45 and a harddrive lasts only one. Why bother? By the time you fill it it's shot. It's just an endless loop of replace and recopy. Why should I not expect things to last?

Shingle tech is the stupidest invention ever. I buy a 5tb drive because I need 5tb of storage, not 4. If the thing can't use the last 5th is should be sold as a 4tb. Misleading labeling is just creating problems. Look at harddrive reviews. Seagate in particular is upsetting a lot of people the last few years, and I've just gotten around to realizing that my loyalty to a brand that served me well since the 90s is nowadays misguided (through no fault of my own).

Thank you all for your advice and criticism. I'll post here again and let you know my results in a few days.

 

[VirtualLarry]

but your advice has benefited me.

I'm still not going to make backups.

You're a barrel of fun, OP, let me tell you that.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Shingle tech is the stupidest invention ever. I buy a 5tb drive because I need 5tb of storage, not 4. If the thing can't use the last 5th is should be sold as a 4tb.

Shingled Magnetic Recording tech. has nothing to do with the wrap-around writes due to firmware limitations in SATA USB docks. Just FYI. I wasn't trying to make any connection between the two there.

 

[fzabkar]

Could we see a SMART report from a tool such as CrystalDiskInfo? This should tell us the physical state of the drive. Look for reallocated, pending or uncorrectable sectors.

Could we see the Partitions window in DMDE? This should tell us if there is a 32-bit LBA limit in your drivers or elsewhere. DMDE is a data recovery tool (US$20 for standard version). However, I doubt that any tool can undo the damage done by CHKDSK.

There are some file carving tools which can locate and reassemble files from their fragments, but that sounds like a lot of pain. DiskTuna and Klennet Carver are two examples that come to mind.

 

[killster1]

We should be able to trust companies to make these things right. You buy a washing machine or refrigerator it lasts the rest of your life or more (I have my grandmother's washing machine from the 60s and it works fine). Computers should be the same. But we live in a disposable culture where everything is crap and a TV lasts 5 years instead of 45 and a harddrive lasts only one. Why bother? By the time you fill it it's shot. It's just an endless loop of replace and recopy. Why should I not expect things to last?

Shingle tech is the stupidest invention ever. I buy a 5tb drive because I need 5tb of storage, not 4. If the thing can't use the last 5th is should be sold as a 4tb. Misleading labeling is just creating problems. Look at harddrive reviews. Seagate in particular is upsetting a lot of people the last few years, and I've just gotten around to realizing that my loyalty to a brand that served me well since the 90s is nowadays misguided (through no fault of my own).

Thank you all for your advice and criticism. I'll post here again and let you know my results in a few days.

well i looked at the prices of wd gold drives recommended. seems like 220-240 for a 6tb, for that money you can buy 2x8tb wd red's. Show me a refrigerator that will last 10 years? i been dying to find a good fridge with no budget but everyone i see has hordes of issues. the one im running now has a damper issue so i just ripped it out and now the fridge gets to cold, but its running for 10+years and works fine in the winter, hoping to replace it by the summer. My washer dryer well hope they last a long time took me 6 months of research before buying GE front loaders. So how much time did you research the drives you expected to last forever? seagate has made crappy drives for over 6 years and you just barely found out?

 

[Torn Mind]

Windows just doesn't freeze during a copy without some issue somewhere causing the copy process to fail. Or any other OS for that matter. It could be hardware or malware, but it is not normal.

As for appliances, a combo of race to the bottom and the need to be environmentally friendly(optimizing for less power consumption over pure durability) has resulted in shortened actual lifespans. There is a distinct lack of quality from current units compared with older units. For example, a Sears freezer from the 50s can still run to this day and be ice cold; that thing is heavy has hell and the coils make up the shelves. How my mom and I got it? New owner bought a house and put it up on craigslist for $35. Fairfax or whatever in the 50s was actual surburbia, not the extremely expensive place Northern Virginia is now; meaning the middle class and working class could afford that level quality. That fridge came with the delivery sheet with the former owner's name, date of delivery, everything. I wouldn't count a modern fridge or freezer to last more than 20 years. Even freezers from the 90s can still keep going on to this day; that was also obtained via craigslist.

I don't trust companies the same way real estate agents, lawyers and car salespeople are two of the scummiest professions on the planet. HOAs are companies that are immortal like a government. Life and death to them is every buck that comes into their bank account. Only the mass will of the collective(threat of losing money) can force them to bend the knee to the consumer.

As someone who studied economics in college, China has every reason to incorporate planned and even immediate obsolescence. THe goal is simple: number padding. Every unit sold means another score for their reported GDP numbers.

Another factor is that people don't last in a house for more than 30 years anyway, and when it is resold, everything usually gets trashed regardless because the new buyers want everything renovated.

I'm a craigslist free hawk. I've been to houses of people who just died or sold out of haste and they left behind quality mass produced items that are better than the mass produced items of today.

 

[Dulanic]

We should be able to trust companies to make these things right. You buy a washing machine or refrigerator it lasts the rest of your life or more (I have my grandmother's washing machine from the 60s and it works fine). Computers should be the same. But we live in a disposable culture where everything is crap and a TV lasts 5 years instead of 45 and a harddrive lasts only one. Why bother?

I just bought a refrigerator and it broke after 3 months. Yes, it sucks things fail, but they do. BTW I have 10 hard drives and haven't had a hard drive failure yet and I have been using PC's likely since before you were born. I count it up to luck, but I still run RAID + I backup.