I came home after a night shift to find that one of my hard drives just went offline. No prior warning, but now it clicks and won't be recognised by the OS. It's a 12TB Western Digital Gold drive. Mainly just had anime and movies on it, and was the backup drive for holding my main drive SSD's images etc. So not a big deal.

While dealing with this, my other 12TB WD Gold drive dies. I'm presuming this is from the same batch since I bought both from the same store at the same time. Now this one hurt a bit more because it had recent anime as well as music, and I like my lossless music collection.

So that's around 24TB gone now. I'll see how much data recovery costs, mainly for the music, but chances are it'll cost between several hundred to several thousand dollars, and I might as well hunt down all the music again - along with all the annoyances of dealing with Chinese file hosting mirrors.

Even if I had them in RAID1, in this scenario things wouldn't have been saved, unless I had the foresight of backing up the music onto a much smaller 4TB HDD - which I didn't.

Anyway, I'm using some spare HDDs now for storage while my SSDs still chug along and my OS remains untouched. Gonna shop for some HDDs in the next few days. Apparently they go up to the low 20s in TBs now. Maybe I'll do 22TB RAID1 or something next.