The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Fantastic-Notice-756 on 2024-05-22 21:20:52.
So, a while back I got a 2TB flash drive from a friend. I needed a new one because I was having corruption trouble with the 1TB flash drive that I'd been using. Anything I backed up to the 1TB drive would be corrupted upon reconnecting the drive to my laptop There wasn't much on the 1TB drive, but I did have a lot of videos downloaded from YT that were clean. I thought the corruption might've been carried over, so I decided to alphabetically re download all the videos onto the 2 TB drive. Re downloading the videos going fine until I hit a bit of a snag.
I'd gotten to the R and S part of the video title alphabet. After I pasted some video files onto the 2TB drive I noticed there was external corruption being caused. I know this because I tried to paste a rar of the pc version of neversoft's spider-man game onto the drive (It was the lightest game I could think of) and the archive ended up being corrupt. I can tell when it's a clean paste, because the rar will paste slowly and the green meter resembles a set of waves, but when it's a corrupted paste, it'll look more like a straight line. I took those files off the drive, re pasted the archive and the rar was just fine. I re downloaded the files, some of them were copied to the drive and didn't cause any corruption, but others would still cause corruption. I even pasted some video files from the 1TB drive and some of them would be fine, but others would have the same corruption result.
I don't know if this is malware related or if it has something to do with the allocation unit size, But I have no idea how to fix it. And what's worse is that I have no way of knowing which files the 2TB drive will accept or not. I can't back anything up until this is fixed and my desktop doesn't have enough space. Any help at all will be appreciated.