It's A Digital Disease!

The original post: /r/datahoarder by /u/Nerdy_Metalhead on 2025-07-31 07:18:29+00:00.

Hello everyone. I used to put all my college files and open files on an external HDD. one day it just stopped working, when I connect it my computer didn't recognize it (I switched computer, changed the cable still nothing) i went to a tech store and asked them to fix it. They said it's over there's no fixing it..... there's a hardware issue with it, and if I want to retrieve files they will retrieve items 1 magebyte at a time and it will cost me a lot. So I lose all those files 😢 question is: I want to achieve my current work and SSDs are expensive and im sacred to gamble with HDDs in case I lose my work AGAIN. What can I do???