I lost all my data! Learn from my mistakes. - @Barnacules
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"I lost all my data", looks at thumbnail sees a bunch of HDD, bet his RAID 0 array fucked up, clicks on video, yip haha
+KiwiPowerNZ jokes on you! Actual drives were SSD ;P
+Barnacules Nerdgasm don't you just hate Windows?
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Use 1-0 next.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm why did you use a HDD thumbnail then?
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Out of curiosity - why RAID 0? I recall you talked about it before but I just can't get it. If performance is the thing you need, why not do RAID 10 for combined redundancy?
EDIT: Oh - and now that you DID lose the data any way, did you re-build it as a RAID 0 again?
Ahh, good ol' RAID 0. Use only if you give 0 fucks.
+RadActiveLobster I give 1 fuck now, so I'm bothered :D
+Barnacules Nerdgasm easus partition recovery ...disk partition manager..torrent them all..
+Barnacules Nerdgasm always upload backup on cloud
+Barnacules Nerdgasm I lost my SSHD with my windows boot after bios update ..
+Dosluke idk i run RAID 0 on my file server with drives from 2006 (really)
Raid 0 with no backup whatsoever = Computer god.
???
+Rip Pepsi It's because there's a possibility when your PC crashes everything wipes or winds up not saving. And It might result to what happened to Barnacules.
Haha Nero Nice one
You mean linus?
+Isaac Mota Linus also made this stupid mistake. I'm aware
a man used to work at microsoft, a man did not backup his stuff, a man has no data now.
I feel like I'm in a world where only Jesus saves.
what jesus saves satan corrupts
I agree that Jesus saves, but Jesus does not backup.
My favorite GoT character.
anyone realize that a ton of this guys videos are just a copy of linus media videos with a lot less views
Moral of the story: Make backups. Then make backups of your backups. Then make backups of those backups and ship them off to an underground vault somewhere.
True. So darn True.
i have a folder copied to every drive in my hoard box
that folder contains all my critical files, that way no matter what happens, as long as at least one of my drives is still operational, i keep all my important data
Thanks. you let me laugh, I lost all of my data before two days, I have backup of backup, but still I lost the last version of my work 😭, thanks you give me hope ❤️🥰🥰❤️
RAID 0 and no backup. Okay
exactly
i heard, i have 4 1tb drives and thought damn must have raid 4 or 5 setup... i hear raid 0.... facepalm
I just don't get this, who has critical data on a Raid 0 with out a backup?
+Cornelius Wiens clown town boyz, I use RAID 10 and even I have full and incremental backups, on-site and off-site backups.
+We Play Games! i have raid0 on my 2x250Gb SSD where is all of my steam games install.. all that data i can get from steam if they fail.. i dont keep any data there that i cannot get from somehwere else.. got nearly 1000Mb/s read/write on that drive.. havent really seen games load any faster thou, but i bet pagefile if happy on that drive :D
RAID 0 across 4 drives with no backup? Wow lol. You probably should have taken it to a professional data recovery company.
Should at least run like RAID 6 or something
Honestly none of the data was worth the money to have professional recovery otherwise I would have. Still was super annoying though.
aww u lost ur cp data
What lunatic stores important data on a stripe across four drives with out daily backups?
+TechBuild Studios Trying to feel sorry since it's hard to stay calm under stress, but man............ even personal data should be backed up let alone critical business stuff.
agreed
+TechBuild Studios The kind of lunatic with too much money and too few brains. And the video was published on backup day! Oh the irony.
+TechBuild Studios a poor person, lol
+TechBuild Studios Maybe someone who wants to get sent a "review" copy of a very expensive NAS? No? OK!
Am I the only one who facepalmed the entire video?
me too...
ikr where are the backups?
If you did you would have rubbed your face dry
anikanbounty97 one word: convenience
RAID 0 with no backup…only have yourself to blame
Raid 0 is the least reliable configuration and yet you put all of your work on it...
what is raid 0
Rip Pepsi
Were you not watching? He explained it. It's the least reliable RAID configuration but is the fastest.
I am still not understanding it myself. Barnacules is a 'professional' when it comes to IT. I am still trying to fathom why he would do it.
Often in IT the best way is the simplest way. Scheduled backup simply copy and pasting. Three 10 TB drives are well within 'his' budget. There are a wealth of programs that will schedule and do it for you. Free or paid for.
While I love your pfp (Touka best girl) he could have been running RAID 60 and his drive would have failed. Because the striping is what killed it, not the number after RAID.
Agreed, although I’d say it’s fine for home users with a solid backup solution, which he didn’t have. Would never recommend for businesses even with a backup because even if you have everything backed up, one drive failure is all it will take to bring the file server down.
Moral of the story: Don't get Nvidia.
+DimmerWorld #nvidiaisforpoorpeople
+DimmerWorld But, but, but Nvidia doesn't have any issues right?.....Right? Lol.
+DimmerWorld He also cited Windows 10 as an issue.
+HowAmI In terms of business practices? No.
+HowAmI no... Just no...
This isn't a April fools joke right?
maybe
+Mert Albayrak
An*
+Mert Albayrak Has to be...
+Mert Albayrak no its not.
+Mert Albayrak If it is, it's not a funny one.
Whonnock server gets its revenge.
SargantSkwiglez hahaha yeah thats the next video😂
At least Whonnock had RAID 50 and not RAID 0.
Video in next up "All of our data is GONE" Yup
Damn you watch linus and barnacles holy fuck chose one
There is one golden Rule in IT: Never store any project data on client machines. NEVER.
Or... have a mountain of backups.
A "learn from my mistake" video where the poster didn't learn from his mistake, but thinks the bios update was the problem - that's a gem.
And I tend to think he’s wrong about updating the BIOS-generally it’s a good idea. You know what’s not a good idea? RAID 0 with no backup.
Sorry about the audio reverb, the lav mic failed so I had to use the onboard camera audio which was sitting in front of the AC so I had to filter that noise out and it created a little audio glitch. Trust me, it's 100x better then it was without the noise correction. I'll address this in future videos but when I shoot a vlog I only do one take.
+@DJX CHANNEL no he is not being a lier he lost it through trying to self recover it
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Jerry, Windows 8.1 is terrible for rolling back Nvidia drivers too. I had to restore my Windows 8.1 installation and lose all my programs because of Nvidia's drivers. (luckily was able to get everything working and got a video out of it) EDIT: I'm glad you're taking it all in stride!
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Dude I am so sorry for the loss of your data. I know the feeling. Bad things always seem to happen to good people and just gotta try and keep going and make the best of what data you did recover atleast you still have the files necessary to make videos. Keep strong and I hope to see a ton of videos from you in the future.
I thought I had ascended into a new plain of existence where everyone had a booming voice. I also thought I was dying. Good to see its not the second. Disappointed it's not the first.
I don't like sweets Barnacles, looks like u put lube on! Just use your AC
and you worked for microsoft, makes sense..
+Lasse u #rekt
+Lasse u ... What that I had a better job then you did? :P
+Barnacules Nerdgasm yeah, you did tbh. :/ I just cant understand, how i'v been runnin backup for 2-5yrs without ever losing one single bit (ZFS @ 1Tb mirror + 1Tb mirror => stripped mirrors. (Got like 500Gb of family photos) Even LinusTEchTips lost (almost) that ... what 100Terabytes because he didn't take into account that RAID cards can get f*ck up as well.. ppl use ZFS u wont need any RAID -cards, because raid card is weakness and they ain't meant for backuping just to hold the data more secure. Real backup means -> you move it on to offline HDD/tape and not to keep it on a live system. Those HSGT 8Tb archive HDD drives x 2 would be really good and cheap option for real backupping. You really didn't keep any offline backup Barnacules? In case you get electricity spike that fries all the hardware connected in your house.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm yes had lol
+Barnacules Nerdgasm you threw those worthless Microshaft awards away. Time to enjoy that freedom and leave them behind for good. Join us floating on our UNiXGuru clouds. 😉
I back up my really critical data on M-disk. Yeah, it's only 25 gigs for a single layer disk, but the bulletproof, 1,000 year archival format means I KNOW I'm not going to lose important data no matter what. SSDs fail, HDDs fail, M-disk is etched in stone and can't fail.
Hmm, M-Disk? I just looked that up. For stuff like family photos and stuff. Journals and whatnot. Good option apparently.
Drives are getting so cheap. Depending on the form factor and standard. You can get terabytes for less than $100.
It happens to all of us. The only difference is that you were honest about rushing into a BIOS upgrade. Maximum respect.
There's almost nothing that can lead to an existential crisis faster than losing data. Feels like half of your soul evaporated in a split second.
whats with the echo?
Reverb
+Technical PC Tips - PC Builds, Reviews, Gaming There is echo everywhere ;:_:;
Too many hard, flat surfaces. Those few baffles he has on the back wall are nowhere near enough.
no, its all over RUclips
There's an annotation at the beginning of the video stating that his LAV microphone failed causing the camera to revert back to built in microphone.
Pretty sure your first mistake was actually storing valuable information on a Raid 0 array, and your second mistake was not backing it up lol
Gratz on having luck xD
wtf RAID 0 for critical work. You and Linus recently.
RAID 0 isn't RAID. No redundancy in RAID 0. Just more drive heads and multiply failure rate.
RAID 5, 6, 10. Or just mirror with RAID 1. 0 isn't really an option with cheap SSDs available.
RUclipsrs learn, please! No striping without backup. Good grief!
Rebuilding a RAID gone bad is a pain as Gerry found out. That's why you backup, every day when it matters for you business.
+Mike Roy Well I think linus had raid 5 which improves redundancy and speed but still, RAID is not a backup if you get cryptolocker you're fucked. Best thing is to have a onsite backup that executes daily and an offsite backup like backblaze
+not_flow Exactly. Nothing beats a backup. Offsite+onsite for quick access, scheduled, for as long as you have storage for. Proper RAID is great too, but doesn't trump backup.
+not_flow Exactly. Nothing beats a backup. Offsite+onsite for quick access, scheduled, for as long as you have storage for. Proper RAID is great too, but doesn't trump backup.
I have 11 40GB solid state drives in raid0.
They have been working fine since 2012. I use all of the space in the drives (nearly), should I be backing up, or switching to raid5? Or is it possible or safe to do so? Or am I safer to just continue with how it is?
television and cheese wtf
Never, ever, ever, EVER leave important shit on RAID 0 disk, because this WILL happen to you!! Especially when you're talking about SSDs, the speed bump is not worth the risk of data loss. As a SAN admin, I once carved out a RAID 0 LUN for a customer, to be used as a BCV, holding data only long enough to mounted to a different server and backed up to tape. The customer never got around to setting up their BCV sync/splits, but instead (and unbeknownst to me) they decided to mount that LUN as regular storage. Murphy's law kicked in, and we lost a single disk on the RAID group where that RAID 0 LUN lived. They lost a ton of data, and since they never told us they were using that space in production, we never backed it up. They were royally screwed.
Looks like every tech youtuber doesn't have a proper backup.
Miguel Angel Vazquez Linus?
Levi Lapsley Linus had issues once. He had to contact a specialist to recover a lot of files. There's a video about it.
Miguel Angel Vazquez yeah ik , that's why I was asking if you were talking about him
Also Dimitri from Hardware Canucks had a problem of data loss, and I think there's another case, maybe Jayz, Paul or someone like them.
K
I lost all my data back in like 2001 or 2002, and since then I have become the master of backups. :)
Sosaria I was born in late 2001
LinusTechTips part 2....
+Dhrumil Shah (Personal) Except I didn't get most of my data back... #WhatATwist
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Meh....sorry man =/ such a sinking feeling in your stomach when shit like this happens. Hope everything works out and you are back up and running fast. I need more Keyboard!
P.S you reallllllllly need to review a Topre based keyboard
+Dhrumil Shah (Personal) Exept that Barnacules isn't a tool as Linux (not in the offencive way)
lol
Dude. Did you record this in a cathedral? The reverb is insane.
Makes it sound sanctified ;)
A software developer is to a warrior, what a true IT guy is to a blacksmith. These are tools for us to work our craft...we are the ultimate users of hardware, but will never be as knowledgable about it as people whose primary focus is the hardware.
The first rule of storing data - back it up! The second rule of storing data - back it up again!! The third rule of storing data - back it up again and keep it somewhere else!!! Some probably think rule 3 is overkill until their house burns down. Some probably think rule 2 is unnecessary until they can't recover from a backup. But I'm pretty sure everyone thinks Rule 1 is a good idea, and deserve everything they get if they don't! Don't want to lose data? BACK IT UP x 3!!!
a fuck up like this needs a word to define it, we shall call it a Jerry. A Jerry- a situation in which a series of unfortunate and panicked events lead to the eventuality of losing multiple terabytes of data. Example- "man!? you lost all that data, when all you had to do was run a simple program... shittt... ya done Jerry'd mate...". But no in all honesty hope you can recover well from this, and I hope nothing like this ever happens to you again, can't imagine what it must be like, but hey, thank God for that thumb drive 😂
+Adam Burdett "can't imagine what it must be like"
Sure you can, just grab your drive and smash it to bits, now you know exactly how it feels. Depressing...
vgamesx1 to be fair my important data is safely backed up, so that wouldn't be much of a loss to me, but yes it would be pretty depressing to lose everything
So, basically your mistake really boils down to the fact that you kept all of your work related material on a striped array. Brilliant......
+lunarx3dfx sarcastic person on the Internet? No way?
+Barnacules Nerdgasm I do apologize for my initial comment; re-reading it now I must admit it was rude and unnecessary. I'm just tired of tech experts on RUclips who should be setting the standard failing due to basic mistakes. If you had data loss due to multiple catastrophic failures in your existing backup methods, that'd be one thing, but creating a video about how to properly recover a raid 0 array shouldn't be necessary, because you should never have important data on an array like that. Especially the data that is your livelihood. You all (tech youtubers) are here to entertain yes, but also to educate and show people who aren't familiar with computing how to properly use their computers and devices. I would urge you to in the future do better to set an example to less affluent users how to properly manage data, and operate their devices. Have a good evening.
+Prime Technophilia His mistake really was keeping important data on a striped array. I may be mistaken, but I have always understood that to be intermediary storage, not permanent storage.
Jerry. Look on the bright side. At least you have the latest version of the BIOS now.
I am also an IT Professional (>20 years) and we all suffer from the occasional hindsight turmoil. I have used RAID 0 for performance before with the intent to setup a daily backup scheme in the near future. It happens. Now I use RAID 10 most often where I need good performance and disks are pretty cheap now. For several years I have been using Veeam Windows Agent (aka EndPointBackup) for work and for home, which is a free product from Veeam. It has the ability to create bootable media for bare-metal restore as well as a backup file browser for individual file restore. I have swapped my laptop hard drive twice in the last couple of years each time increasing the size and then used the Veeam media to restore from the backup.
The funny thing is that I had the same problem with the RAID-Array but I was able to solve it. I used the program teskdisk to rewrite the partition-table back to the array after recreating it with exactly the same RAID-settings. It was the worst day of my life. Since then, I make daily backups. I hope, you learned your lesson, too... Keep up the good work, you are great!
get a tape recorder, backup monthly onto it
That must be fast...
+Roxas Scythe it takes one night but do it overnight
Suraj Grewal L
Marty! We found technology!!
Rule Number 1: always backup your data if it's really important backup your backup.
If you're doing reviews on a professional level like this you really shouldn't be testing the hardware AND editing on the same machine.... Pretty much for this exact reason.
I love his channel, but IMHO he made it 'too' complicated. Just scheduling backups via dumping data. You can find and experiment with many applications that will do this. Most with virtually no action of your own. Once you set it up. NAS may have been a better in his instance. Me it is copy and paste twice a week. Or when I get the money, a NAS.
You are correct though. $500 to $1000 for a testing machine separate from 'his' personal stuff is the most logical approach. With all the spare parts he has lying around. I am sure this would have been easy even for a novice like me.
He does this professionally and is good at it. Even the smartest people on Earth make careless mistakes.
As I type this I am scanning and sorting data files. When I am done. X number of drives will be used.
Keep it simple and keep it up.
When my system drive went south after a power failure I just assumed the worst and reformatted it. It's good to know about these data recovery apps. Knowledge is power. Thanks for sharing Jerry!
Jeff, thanks for sharing.
I learn a lot from you and I would like to thank you.
I don't feel like giving you and advice but rather sharing with you how I managed my backup scheeme myself.
First I have a QNAP 4 bay unit that has multimedia capabilities.
Last year a storm lightning ruined my TV and the HDMI port of it, so I decided to fully convert it into a fully data server.
The insurance only covered the TV (where I live QNAP has no representation nor official distributor so I was f...ed).
A friend was travelling from USA so I bought a new one 2 bay unit fanless QNAP (also with multimedia capabilities) and equiped it with 2 small NAS compatible hard disks just to move into this unit the services I run (download server, DLNA server, SQL server, ..., in summary all those functions that I need 24x7).
Backed up all my data into a couple of external drives (this pushed me to put some order on my backup scheeme) and reconfigured the 4 bay unit to a raid 5 (not the fastest but safe) configuration and disabled all the functions that might inhibit the hard disks from sleeping.
This way I placed the 24x7 functions in a unit that consumes very little power and I can hear the disks starting when I turn on my computer.
I run a 1 Gb network at home using cat 5E cabling (can't implement cat 6 due to several reasons).
So the small unit is in my living room (near the cable modem and my dual band router) a cable runs into my "cave/office" where I have the 4 bay unit, printers, .... my desktop computer, my portable, and other stuff).
I implemented a backup scheeme from my different computers into the server and established a folder configuration that allows me to backup the critical data (the data I can't recover) into 2 external 2TB hard disks connected via eSATA to the server.
Of course I need to power up this external drives, but I have implemented an email based alarm system that will send me an email to remind me to turn on the external units.
All the best and thanks for all you sharing.
Carlos
Are you kidding me, RAID 0? And no backups at all? It was kind of deserved!!!
Am I the only one who hears insane big room reverb on the audio for the whole video????
no
Riley Jones nah me too
nope
Riley Jones I hear it too
i heard it.
ROTFL, Troll quality. 1080, 1440 or 4k.
Just absolutely the hardest lesson to learn. I'm sorry for your loss.
I truly feel your pain Jerry, literally going through the same thing right now. I've got synology and everything too. Lost every single resume, family photo/video, etc. EVERYTHING. For me, it was a bad pirated copy of Sony Vegas that did it.
DO NOT DO IT GUYS! NOT WORTH IT!
Real men don't do backups. But they do cry a lot.
Funny thing is, RAID 0 isn't redundant.
I see it as RAID^0, which solves to 1, not a Redundant Array. /s
im pretty much abandoning youtube tommorow because of all the prank vids.
Same here.
I was actually in the middle of the frustrating and tedious job of moving everything over to a portable drive when I came across this video, back to it.
Sorry to hear about the data loss...been there before. I've been wanting to build a nice raid nas. I think what I want to do it repurpose one older computer with some large drives 4-6TB each and have each computer back up files and full windows recovery images to those single drives on a separate PC. Then I think I'd like to have those 4-6 TB drives back up to a large RAID array. I'm not big on cloud storage.
So in theory there's 1 drive on the working PC, 1 drive on the repurposed PC with large drives, and two of the four drives with each bit of data on the RAID array (I"m thinking Raid 10). So if I calculate correctly every bit of data will have 4 copies on 4 different drives. That should make things ultra secure unless my house burns down.
I love your tutorial type videos. You should build different raids using the various programs out there as a tutorial series.
Nothing like a fresh start; once the shock wears off.
RAID 0, No backup... You had it coming bro.
TL;DR: You did a Raid 0 with no backup and lost your Data. Everything else is just (interesting but in the end) meaningless jada jada. Pro-Tip: Next time invest less money in screens and more in hard-drives. :P
Or use raid5..
I'm sorry for your loss. It's why I moved into the Chromebook world and have all my data in the cloud.
I too have lost all in the past and lost my 2TB Hybrid drive last Friday when i made allowed Windows 10 Anniversary to update and lost ownership of my two backup drives. In the last week have regained ownership of drives but like you i was in a right spin and did the wrong thing and now back to Window 7 and will not let me get back to 10. so like you say "we are only human..." lol.
Thanks and keep up with the great content output Jerry.
10:25 *cough cough* Linus Tech Tips *cough cough*
You have some mad echoes.. "some mad echoes" on your audio... "on your audio"...
I never and will never trust RAID. I had too many bad experiences with RAID and it never lived up to it's potential. Just have Image backup of the partitions to the cloud AND an external drive, then update the full backup. ACRONIS software has been the best image and backup software.
I am a casual user who is re-learning and learning the new stuff. Hardware mostly, but even back in the day. I knew RAID was too cumbersome. I love this mans' channel. I just do not understand how he forgot the simple rule of backing up data. Select all the data i.e. directories and stuff. Then transfer it. Could not be simpler. I remember the original Windows 95 Backup Application. I love that thing. Wish I could find it.
FreeFileSync or PureSync are basic and useful.
If you are worried about security. Buy encrypted drives; his RUclips videos are public so using them as an example. Minimal security concerns. For the stuff you do not want compromised. Like bank records, tax returns, etc. He could use encrypted file volumes. So the entire directory is encrypted. Point-and-Click-Drag-and-Drop!
I suppose we are all guilty of it. I have found that the simplest way is often the safest way. Especially when it comes to computer technology.
RAID has it's place. It's place is NOT for backing up data. It's for redundancy.
I too learned the hard way to remember the old saying "If your data doesn't exist in three different places, your data doesn't exist." Then one day, before making some major hardware and software changes, I backed up my system to a bunch of CD-RWs that turned out to be bad. I lost EVERYTHING. I now have three physical and two cloud-based backups of everything that isn't easily replaceable.
Did the exact same thing, destroyed partition file ---> panicked and made it worse = lost 1Tb of files. Good luck with the recovery process.
Repeat after me: you never, ever use RAID0. In fact, if you necessarily have to use RAID, you never use anything but RAID1. The proper setup is to use mirrored ZFS.
Basically, RAID0 is not worth it. While you get impressive numbers in synthetic linear read tests, in the real world you will not get any significant boost while at the same time you have made your disk array far more likely to fail. In the case of a 4-way RAID0, you now have made your disk 4 times more likely to fail and when it does it will take with it 4 disks worth of data!
Using RAID1 you still get a read boost but it will also keep your data safe(r). Disks are cheap, it doesn't matter that you only get half as much storage. If it's not enough, buy more disks.
Anything past RAID1 (i.e. RAID5 or more) is not worth it either, the overhead of keeping the disks in sync will cancel out the potential performance gain.
storing important data you dont wanna loose on raid 0?! WTF
I got 4x6TB WD Blues for my data and 2 (2x6TB) as off-pc backup). Thats the way, critial non-media data on a 250GB USB, mega, onedrive/gdrive free accounts.
The biggest problem here wasn't using RAID0. The biggest problem was using built-in motherboard RAID. Best to use a PCI RAID card with a local battery. In this case, it would have specifically sidestepped the issue of updating the motherboard BIOS.
"It was through a series of very, very stupid mistakes I made starting with updating the BIOS."
Wrong...the first stupid mistake you made was running 4 1TB drives in RAID0...
Living on the edge.
I'm just not going to update my BIOS.
Whenever you perform any major operation on your computer. You must always make sure you important data is backed-up. Whenever you do anything with your computer and have no idea your what your computer will do. Backup the data.
I have flashed more than one motherboard in my day. Never screwed it up. You read, download, and print the instructions. If you have motherboard that has a flash-reset (yea I am getting old). Make sure you know how to do it.
If your BIOS has a critical flaw that can compromise your computers' security or hardware damage. You have two choices. Buy a new computer. Or flash the BIOS.
A BIOS update failure can turn your computer into a paperweight. That is why with any critical update you 'must' backup first. Using a RAID configuration where you have stripes of your files is a very bad idea. There are some configurations that just duplicate the file across multiple drives. That is different, you still have just clones of the drive.
I am a little old school so I prefer to just have a huge ass pipe to backup to drives or a single drive.
Also, since he is a computer expert. He should have known better.
You could, just, downgrade your bios...
Well, some time ago i got an degraded raid array, but i recovered everthing!
There are an AMAZING software called "Raid Reconstructor" from runtime software.
All you need to do is connect one drive at time to a regular sata port (no raid mode) and the software will make an image of each drive. In the end software will repair and show you your data!
The only drawnback of using this method is that you need a VERY big hard drive to have all your disc images, but trust me....it recover your data with no problems! And the good thing is in the end of the process your original drives still have the same data. If something went wrong, you can still try something else.
I used to lost tons of data on my hdds. Someday i realise that the only old data i still have today was the one i recorded on cds and dvds.
Nowdays i have an bluray recorder and i keep an copy of my important stuff on optical media. For offline storage there are nothing today more reliable than a good optical disc.
Glad I don't work with huge video files, still have 2 backup sets here though, these videos help remember the importance of keeping things backed up, cheers.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it"
>.< I'm blown away how many youtube pc people don't seem to have proper backup systems.
I am backing up data right now. A USB Cable, then I used Pure Sync.
I do this at least every week. O and I have more than one.
*_OOPS, I LOST MY DATA BUT I HAD AN ANTIVIRUS!_*
*_ANTIVIRUS IS NOT ENOUGH, GET PROTOGENT!_*
Hard luck bro, sorry to hear this happened to you. And don't worry, you might feel bad about being a tech guy who should know better, for me it was even worse. I have worked in enterprise storage for 12 years, written disaster recovery and local recovery plans, planned backup schedules for massive companies, I've spent days trying to recover data for desperate clients.
All that, you'd think I'd know how to look after my own data, right? Nope. Lost 3 years worth of original songs I recorded on the guitar 7 years ago, and have barely been able to face playing guitar since.
Industry top tips:
-RAID 0 is only for esoteric applications where you just need performance, no safety, for example scratch discs or some huge temporary files. Never ever store anything on RAID 0. RAID 0 basically compounds the risk for a drive failure for all your drives into one, a bit like subprime lending. :)
-RAID 10 is the way to go for performance and safety, or RAID 6 if you need storage more than performance (RAID10 gives you 50% of the drive space, RAID 6 gives you n-2 discs of space)
-RAID is not a backup, you need separate backups. The golden rule is 3 backups in two different locations. BackBlaze is quite good for the "home environment", and also works sort as a cloud storage.
-Don't trust anything onboard regardless of what the mobo-box says. Separate HBA cards are the way to go.
-If you want effortless access to your Synology from you desktop, set up an iSCSI LUN on it and use that as a drive in Windows.
Betcha you're running RAID 5 or 6 now. :)
Or 10.
RAID 1, 5, and 6 are all small dick energies
Rule 0x1011: always make backups.
I like what you do, i really do. But i can't for the love of me understand how companies want to send shit to people like you who are more or less completely technically challenged in terms of understanding how shit works.
+Tritnaha it's because you're to technically challenged to see the underlying problem was a mistake. It has nothing to do with lack of knowledge and more to do with frustration and inpatients. Hope that clarifies it for you. Gotta run, another delivery will be here soon :P
+Barnacules Nerdgasm
I thought we silently agreed on sending it to me now that i posted mean comments? :(
Jokes aside, I'd say it's got to do with lack of knowledge if you're running JBOD and store important stuff on there. It's the same boring mantra with all of us storing/datahoarders, backups backups backups!
At least you've realized how important they are now, so there's some good stuff coming out if i guess.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm more drives for your new 8 drive raid 0? Seems that data loss due to running raid 0 (not backed up... lel) turned to be some kind of new sport on youtube tech channels? WTF is wrong with you people.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm I'm a fan, but that was a rookie mistake, and I'm sorry but your conclusion is wrong.
Your first mistake was treating a Raid 0 array with critical data. Raid 0 is at best, a rapid access *transitional* storage area. Your 2nd mistake was not *knowingly* having a backup of that data, before performing a core change to the computer.
If you really want to help people with good advice, show them when it's ok to use Raid0, and how to make a backup. Lots of people use raid0 (JBOD) but have no idea what they're risking. While at it, show us your NAS, in its full raid 5 glory.
+Barnacules Nerdgasm Set up an automatic backup for all our shit dude lol. I'm pretty sure Windows 10 has one built in, though I have no idea how good it is. I'm kind of spoiled with Time Machine. It's set and forget pretty much. It even writes to multiple drives at once if you want.
Thank you for reminding me to finish configuring my local backups.
I FEEL YOUR PAIN! Sorry you lost so much.. I don't do twitter so I did not know this till now... Soon as I heard you say "update the BIOS" I really got nervous that you actually did it!! I use and LOVE R-STUDIO for all recovery jobs! Now that you will get crazy with backups If you are looking for a really nice backup program for any type of computer. ACRONIS has a NICE backup program. It can make an IMAGE of your drive and it can automatically store the image on multiple locations. has great software to make a boot disc or usb to recover from the backup. not cheap but well worth the cash....
Also I have to say that being in the computer industry for the last 30 years, We do stupid stuff to! Just like car mechanics have cars that break down all the time and painters never finish painting their house computer professionals do not follow our own rules we set for others! We dont backup as often or at all sometimes. we think we will get to it and we never do. So to everyone that can not understand how this happened Barnacules did what we all have done at one time or another... I have told many people after setting up their network "Do as I say, NOT as I do"
this is why I stick with mac for work and just game on windows.
gg
+Alpaca Guy Yea Cause macs never crash. :-/
+Alpaca Guy I thougt 4tb raid 0 without backup was dumb. Then i read your comment. Plz leave. (raid, Windows proprietary)
+acderath X_X
+acderath He's referring to the painless, automatic backup system it has built right in out of the box. Plug any empty drive in and it'll ask if you want to use them as a Time Machine drive.
Oops my system crashed
how did you get a job at Microsoft? ???
He applied
I am not saying this to be mean at all. It just warms my heart to see someone of your caliber has issues like this. I am sorry for all the photo and video losses. For me when I do something like this I now shut everything down and walk away and spend time pondering what to do. I know this is an older video. I still enjoyed it. Take care and make backups
It's very satisfying to see that even the people who "should know better" really don't. :-)
I use single SSD drives for my workstation, and it backs up it's data directory to a Synology NAS. But because that would not protect me against me accidentally deleting files (which is how most dataloss is caused), the first NAS backs up to a second NAS.
Video won't load danmit
Same! Only tho video.
Same here!
So this guy worked at microsoft, yet did not backed up data from raid 0...
I have 4xSSD in raid 0 only for steam games, important data are on 3 way mirror and still have autosync to my 2 way mirror NAS.
TheNeurall Wooo-hoooo!!!! Trekie FTW!!! Do you use Data's positronic brain for back up as well?
this is why I don't use raid in any of my pcs
Other raids should help you keep your data. Just raid 0 should mess it up.
A manual backup is the best raid. Plaster this into your bedroom:
RAID is not a backup
NAS is not a backup
Manual copies is a backup.
An unpowered drive can corrupt data in the long term... plot hole.
I feel you on that.
Get cable. Connect To Drive. Copy and Past. Done.
Scheduling is good if you have the software.
He took something completely simple and 'needlessly' complicated it.
Had something similar happen to me about 5 months ago with a portable hard drive. Me in my ultimate wisdom had never backed up any of my photography work over the past ten years. Hard drive took a tumble off of my desk, instant mechanical issues. Tried recovering myself...windows couldn't even find the drive. Sent it to a data recovery company...didn't feel like paying 3000 dollars to recover that data. Time to start from scratch.
Barnacules, heed my advice sir, as a fan of your work, and ive come across your channel within the last year and enjoy most of your uploads.... and also an owner of a computer business in my neighborhood in northern nj, DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL acronis. create automatic backups of your "volume". this program creates complete 'images' (iso's) of your entire volume. it can be read through the file and everything accessed when backed up to an external drive. it can also be used to create bootable media so after an os fail or a boot error, you can still get into your system through the bootable media and create a last resort backup of everything or at least everything that is remaining. this program has saved my supercomputer system ive built and been using since 2013 which now has two xeon chips, 128gb quad-channel ram, and about 10 drives, 2 of which are ssd's one containing windows, some graphics cards, 2 suhd tv's and 3 desktop monitors, as well as 2 power supplies, and 2 Ethernet ports, my point being, i built this computer specifically for one thing and one thing only above all else. propriety number one was redundancy, second priority was performance and ive been upgrading it through the years. took me a while to get the system stable with all of the overclocking ive done to the cpu's, ram and the graphics systems, and have run into a lot of issues along the way. the drives that would always give me problems, i would always have backed up through acronis just incase. and on two occasions they have saved my life from losing just about everything that was important to me including some software i didnt have copied to a different drive, and more importantly settings for the system to make everything run as smoothly as i have it running now saved to my system drives. i also ran into issues with the windows 10 operating system as well when the system files wound up getting corrupted through a mass malware and virus attack that i wound up finding myself being caught up in. low and behold, the moral of this little story is this, cloud backup, and if you dont trust your data on a cloud service, use something more "low-tech".... like acronis. set it up for automatic backups on your volume, or volumes that you deem important enough to backup, and save it all to a USB HDD of something similar in size (or a little smaller because during backups you can create the backup image and have the data compressed) to your 3.6xxx (4tb) raid 0 striped. another important key here is, dont use a raid.these days theres really no reason too anymore. boot to an ssd for your system and save only your system itself and maybe your most used program on it (premiere) and EVERYTHING ELSE save to other HDD/SSD's like i do. if my system SSD fails, guess what? i have an acronis image backup of it, so all i have to do is pull out the dead drive, load acronis via a bootable usb made through the program, find the backup i need and decompress and write it to my new replacement ssd. literally as if nothing happened at all. whether i lose one drive, or all of my drives, im back up and running within an hour or two and nothing is changed. due to a lot of my software and services i am running, i am very obnoxiously violent with my hardware, hence why i am not using consumer based products like an i7 chip or ram or mobo or even power supplies. if you want to talk about it any more, send me a message and we can get in contact through other means thats a little more private, but wether you do or dont, i hope a lesson was learned from all of this, and if you want some help, i will be glad to offer you up some knowledge and assistance as ive been saving customers data for years off of machines that were completely unusable and wouldn't boot. hell even from drives that couldnt be recongnized. maybe about 1/10% of all of the customers through my door for data recovery, ive had to refer to data laboratories where they de-manufacturer the drive wearing dust suits, in a dust-free lab, and wand the data off of a drive, but that gets expensive very quickly. the good thing about traditional 5400 or 7200rpm discs is that they rarely ever mechanically fail. 99% of the time the data is still there and recoverable and the drive is still in working order. first step is always recognizing and testing for the drives mechanical integrity (health) then de-ciphering what to do by either straining it further sacrificially (rarely) to recover everything you can before the components completly fail, or just recognizing the software that uses the drive is beyond corrupted and bypass it and recover everything to then format, and restore the data after re-installing the OS. DM me if anything ive said here interests you, or if you at least want to take preventative measures from something like this ever incurring ever again. i can list you hundreds of examples both my own and customers' experiences. but i can always get data back. period. 99.9% of the time i can do it economically and without the usage of a lab. but there are rare occasions when even i would need to send it out to a lab, and at that point you have to think if the price of recovering it at that point, is even worth spending for what your even trying to recover. i hope i helped you out in some way and i hope that i can help you in the future. best of luck to you -Brian
April Fools
It's not he has been posting this on social media for like a week so it is serious
that...echo...is...irritating!
I didn't notice it, at all.
i lost the birth video of my son and a ton of photo's
Why would You record the birth of your son?!
Lots of people do that
+Josiah Rose What the fuck no they don't lol
it's not like i had a choice everyone else wanted me to film it, and me being the only person allowed in the room so there you go but none of it matters now it's long gone.
"Update your BIOS"
That should be the new 'delete system32,' LOL.
Has sound deadening foam, adds reverb. Love it.
He is talking facing a wall that doesn't have any sort of sound dampening foam. The foam behind would only help with reflections but he for some reason films this way and forgets to setup the opposite wall.
This sounds like a story of why idiots shouldn't use RAID. Let's all count the facepalms with me... Firstly, you've got no backup... facepalm 1. Couple that with the fact you're using RAID-0, with probably no real reason for needing the speed (I think I remember you saying you were using SSD's?) and should have chosen a more suitable RAID level, facepalm 2. You don't know the order of your drives nor your stripe size, major facepalm 3. Then you're recreating volumes and partitions, installing software.... I just don't even know what to say to that... facepalm 4. And finally, on-board RAID controller, are you serious?? Server MOBO or not, most onboard RAID controllers are going to be crap as a decent one would cost you almost as much as the entire motherboard.... facepalm 5. Besides, most Intel RAID controllers are okay, albeit they like to drop drives out of an array for even the slightest reason, a major problem for RAID-0, but they're certainly better than the Marvell ones. You just seem to go from one monumental blunder to another and I have NO idea how you managed to recover anything. So I'm struggling for the message in this video... is it a lesson to other people, or what a complete moron you are? I know which one I think it is.
+The Welder I was about to write essentially the same reply before seeing yours. Pretty much every blunder possible committed here. As soon as he mentioned using RAID 0 without a backup It was obvious he was asking for trouble, then it just gets worse from there.
thats why i only use raid 10, then i can lose up to 2 drives without any data loss
This is *NOT* true. I suggest you read up on how RAID-10 works. If you lose two drives and they are both in the same group, then it's still game over for RAID-10. Obviously, the more drives you add to RAID-10 the lower your chances are that two drives in the same group will die. If you actually want two drive failure tolerance, then you need RAID-6.
Just use RAID 1 and back up.
I know right? 😂😂😂
It's a wonder that he even knew what RAID is! Or did he?
Despite the benefits of having a RAID array, I would never, ever have a setup like that. The horrifying thought of losing my data at any point is enough for me to never have it.
Thanks for the warning, I am considering setting up a raid array in the near future, so this is good to know ahead of time.
For backups, I use a debian box with SnapRAID and MergerFS. It's the best option I found for storing lots of media with good storage efficiency and some peace of mind.
For home PC and small businesses, RAID is more trouble/hassle than worth it.
I had this issue when moved from AMD to Intel and swapped to an Nivida graphics card. I also had a display adaptor on my 3rd monitor which was causing the driver issues. Nvidia troubleshooted with me and while there great for reaching out and helping with troubleshooting, they couldn't resolve it and I had to troubleshoot it myself. Took two weeks. Once I uninstalled drivers and software for that display adaptor, all my issues went away.
Now some recommendations for you and everyone else. BACKUPS!! Thats always something that should be top priority for EVERYONE!!! Id recommend a freeware by Veeam called "Veeam Endpoint" who is the leaders in virtual backups and now working on the physical side of things. Only expense here is an external drive to backup too (however a NAS with a raid is best)
Secondary, I cant totally agree with you on not updating a bios. I update server and SAN bios's all the time. Its kinda important as it adds new functionally, fixes, stability and security features. Do not skip on any updates!!! Just make sure you have good backups before you do anything and that you are installing the stable versions, not beta or early release stuff.
I'm a system/network engineer so I do this on a daily so hope it helps.