It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/DepthHour1669 on 2025-02-24 22:54:37.

Well, the day has come. My 8TB external drive is failing, I can't open a folder anymore and I'm getting a "The parameter is incorrect" error when I try to mount the drive. I ran chkdsk and recovered the filesystem enough to mount, but it's getting file read errors for some files now. Clearly it's ready to be put out of its misery.

I don't want to bother doing a clone with ddrescue or something, so I started a Backblaze restore shipping me another hdd. It's just isos and videos anyways.

Anything fun I can do with the slowly failing hard drive? Run chkdisk on it continuously and record the number of failures per run, and make a graph? Any better suggestions?