The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Zeznon on 2025-04-25 21:41:32.
Hello, I'm new here, and realized I'm kind of a "data hoarder lite" after my old 512 GB sata 2.5" ssd randomly died on me yesterday and I was way worried about my files than having to reconfigure my system. Basically, ADHD and lack of money has prevented me from doing backups. Due to the ssd failure (probably due to too many reads/writes), I lost 400GB of old computer and console files and games. I guess the insanely large amount of tiny files made it worse faster? (like, 600000 files, with average size of 500kb, with some random larger ones not counted in the average) Sorry if I said atuff that's wrong; I'm very new to this stuff.
Thankfully, apparently my brother had an extra one that was actually supposed to be mine, and I had a 1TB hdd lying around, so I can start backing stuff up after I've redownloaded things. The dead ssd and the current one are identical, from a chinese(?) brand called kingspec, I bought one because it was cheap enough for my broke ass, and my brother bought another for an eventually dead laptop for my parents (from which I inherited the ssd).
What would be a good TBW value for someone like me? (obviously accounting for ssd size)