The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/New-Seaworthiness-58 on 2024-09-02 10:57:55.
This has happened to 3 separate external storage devices. I used to think my old External Hard Drive was just faulty, so I bought a new online. Same thing happened to that too, I thought maybe I got scammed and bought a broken device. YES. I've been told to check the integrity or health of these storage devices and turned out ok. But the problem persisted.
So I went to the HP store and bought a brand new 500GB Flash Drive just today. As I've done before, Formatted it to NTFS -> Default on the Memory Allocation so I can transfer files above 4gb.
Transferred my files. Everything seemed fine at first. BUT at some point in transferring, files started to become unreadable. Examples: Video and Audio files just won't play. Zip files turn into an error when unzipping.
It's worth noting that I've nowhere reached the maximum 500GB limit on my Drive. At most I've only transferred 30GB's worth of files.
I'm transferring Music, Movies and series of Videos, as well as Zip files. So a mix of smaller and larger files.
It's almost as if there's an item limit on the amount of files I can transfer. Say the first 100 Items turn out ok. My devices can read them and I can transfer them to other devices no problem. But any item after that becomes corrupted(?).
And no, the drive itself isn't corrupted, I can still transfer and read the initial files that transferred successfully.
EDIT: Some extra bit of info that might shed light on what exactly the problem is. The latest video series i've transferred on to my Flash Drive. The first 7 Episodes are perfectly fine. BUT the 8th episode cuts off halfway and is unreadable and every successive file after that is too.
This can't be a coincidence anymore. I'm sure there is something about these external storage devices that I haven't understood.
Please what should/can I do? I'm trying to Backup a ton of files but these external storage devices keep failing. Is it a formatting issue? Did I use the wrong Memory Allocation amount? I'm absolutely clueless on this.