It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/landmanpgh on 2024-09-20 23:27:37.

So I had a weird problem recently where the power to an outlet in my home office kept tripping the breaker. Probably reset it 4 times before calling an electrician to check it out. No big deal, just fixed something electrical.

But.

My 2x18TB and 8TB external HDDs were all fried. No idea what happened other than some type of power surge. Prior to this, they'd been fine for 3 years. Always running, always plugged in to a surge protector. I guess it didn't protect against all surges? Seems misleading.

Back up your data. Luckily everything was a duplicate of what I had elsewhere, so I'm just out...like $800.

Back up your data. Again.