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Didn’t test or reformat a needle external HDD before adding photos/videos onto it, what should I do now? (zerobytes.monster)

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The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/clerbird321 on 2024-07-08 20:24:30.

Hello everyone

I just recently bought a new external HDD (https://www.walmart.com/ip/790131533) to backup my iCloud library to, and moved over about 50gb worth of zipped files. I’ve done SO much research in the past week, just desperately trying to find the best ways to back up my precious memories, but apparently I didn’t do enough because now I’m seeing that a lot of people reformat and run tests on their new HDDs before adding files onto them…I did not do any of that, just plugged it in, made sure it worked, went through the setup that was on the drive and started adding files. Should I have done more? What should I do now? All of this is super overwhelming, I just want to make sure my family photos and videos are backed up😭

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