The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/FewExit7745 on 2024-10-08 15:55:46.
So probably my situation is a rare one, but I have a Seagate 1TB External HDD with >600GB of data in it, that I had to long format. Before doing so, I transferred >400GB of my files to my 512GB laptop, and >200GB onto my 256GB Poco X5 Pro, using the Laptop as the middleman.
So reformatting done. I returned the files from my laptop to the HDD and the transfer proceeded without problems. The problems occured when I moved the files from the phone to the laptop again, I did stagger the transfer into two batches, and for the first batch, the phone changed from "USB Transfer" to "Charge this device via USB" after all the files seemingly went through. The second batch was interrupted by "insufficient memory to execute..." stuff at about 60% of the transfer, thankfully the files were still on the phone, so I divided the second batch of transfer into two parts again, and the files finally proceeded to transfer this time.
Now my worry is if I have some data corruptions during this process, and if I have to check all these files if the play or show fine, [95% of them were videos(like >4000 of them) and photos(>1000), also 50GB of these files(from 2022) are my personal files, the rest are from the internet]. About 20 of these videos are nowhere to be found now as well.
I did some random sampling on about 30 files in different folders and they were just fine.
All of the files are seemingly okay judging by their thumbnail but I have not time yet to check each one of them. I don't have the *checksums"(?) of the files before transfer Please don't judge me for only having one drive, I live in a developing country with developing country wages. I am actually about to buy another HDD(or SSD if Seagate has good discounts on them) this December, a year after I bought the first one. Just so I can finally do "2-1" of the "3-2-1" here.
Finally, thanks for reaching this far, and sorry for my poor English.
TLDR: Would it bother you if about 5-15% of your files might be corrupted? We're talking 5000 files. Should I just delete everything (except personal files) and redownload them?