My Main Drive Failed me! ...A tale of impatience and false hope
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ก.ค. 2024
- The NVME drive with my Windows installation and all the projects I was working on went BANG. It still sort of worked, but BSOD'ed almost immediately after booting. I salvaged my stuff as I waited for the worst next day delivery service evarrrr
0:00 - Bang
1:11 - Why I dealt with it badly
4:41 - Why next time will be better
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I've been using a quite old HDD for years now... I think I'm gonna live in blissful ignorance for now and let future me deal with that
This cracked me up
That future me is present me. I have a really old 3TB drive and a relatively newer 3TB drive. The newer drive is showing worrying signs of slowing down and erroring at times, so I've been saving everything on my older 3TB drive, but space is quickly running out. I'd like to buy a newer HDD but who knows. Money amirite
no risk no fun
My main HDD is from 2012 and almost daily use. I'm just tempting the faith now
Similar situation, I've had I for (7?) years now, crystal disk says its fine, but I swear it wasn't that loud.
I cant believe how fitting Philips fathers music is to all situations Philip is in.
It fits perfectly to silly or mysterious situations at the same time. Or even just informative situations.
This music is like a chameleon, having a camouflage ability to fit to everything philip does.
* chameleon
I have a playlist with my favorite tracks. Been loving his newer music.
camel lion fusion ???? damnn
Power of association perhaps?
Perhaps Philip became the way he is because of being exposed to this music as a child
i started watching 3kliks because i started playing CS. and boy was i in for a treat.
from the corona virus perspectives, to the in depth numbers and map analysis videos, and the how to eat like me videos to journalistic integrity, this man delivers truly unique feeling content. no other channel has this feel.
thank you for the lovely entertainment sir.
Thanks Miko :) the secret is that even I don't know what I'm going to do next :'D
SSDs have some interesting failure modes. Back in 2015 or so I was at a company using them as write caches for HDDs, 120GB SSD to 24TB of HDD. When the SSDs eventually burnt out they didn't go read only, they accepted 3 writes per second. If they'd gone read only we'd have handled it but 3 writes per second on a distributed storage system just slowed everything to a crawl.
Bit more context: It was a Ceph cluster, 40 storage nodes hosting iscsi drives for VMs. Normal write load was single digit thousands of IOPS. Ceph was in replica mode I.e. write 3 copies of the data to different nodes before confirming the write to a VM so write latency was important and that's why SSDs came in. We knew they'd burn out but 10x the write performance was worth it. Ceph is clever, if a node stops accepting writes it'll be marked unhealthy and the data copied to a new node. Ceph didn't consider low write performance unhealthy so would keep writing when the SSD burnt out. Given how the iscsi volumes were distributed any VM would see massive degradation on a small number of its blocks. Can't remember the original brand but we swapped to samsungs which behaved properly at the time. No guarantee newer controllers won't do weird stuff.
@@CampGareth An interesting story, thanks for sharing it :)
I recently re-watched a saved video of yours, from many years back iirc, discussing your computer layout and the many backups/backups of backups you have in your setup. When I watched it last week I remember thinking how great the setup was and I planned to incorporate it into my pc setup soon. It's a strange coincidence to get a bit of an update on a video from 5+ years ago right after I happened to come across it again. All that to say, it's great to hear about your setup again and the the improvements you plan to make
@@kliksphilip reassuring to know the system still stands! definitely understand this problem. when working on any digital projects they always ends up on my desktop as a "plan to finish soon" task too, I think your idea for revisions sound interesting and efficient
Little tip if it ever happens again: if all the other drives in the system are ok, you can use a USB stick with a linux ISO to boot to a live environment and access the data (e.g. passwords) stored on the other drives from there
Provided those drives use a format label supported by Linux and that you can be bothered to update it regularly.
@@plebisMaximus Yeah and also if they are encrypted, but from what I know there is no problem in reading NTFS drives, which are the ones windows uses. Which formats do you know don't work?
@@plebisMaximus You don't need to update a Linux USB regularly for accessing data lol. NTFS is supported in most distros out of the box and you can always image the entire drive if all else fails. Sometimes Linux won't let you mount a dirty NTFS (from a crash or other sudden power-off), but you can get around that by using a command for a read-only mount.
@@atvacs NTFS drives work in some distributions, not all. I've mostly used Arch and that one won't open an NTFS drive by default. Might be a problem with Arch, but it's a problem I've run into, so deserves to be mentioned.
@@plebisMaximus this shouldn't be the case with the ntfs3 kernel driver since linux 5.15. if it also doesn't use it by default for whatever reason you can just include the arguments '-t ntfs3' when mounting.
Hey Kliksphillip, thanks for uploading this. My day was so rough until I saw this, you always make my day.
Any better today?
any better after 6 months?
I like the fact that instead of trying to hide it some way, you just have a whole drive named Porn
@@kliksphilip sus
@@kliksphilip the what????? xdddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd
Only 200GB, amateur.
@@chilldude30 what did he say lol
As someone who started to have BSODs on his main computer this week, these are much appreciated lessons, thank you. My problem stemmed from a waterpipe bursting beneath my room, so my family had to clean it up while I was away. This required them to move my main PC from and to my room, shaking the case in the process, which resulted in some loose contacts in the case. I hope the BSODs don't repeat, as my backup computer is just... not ready for the bulk of my work. Now, I see the benefits on being prepared. Trouble strikes when we least expect it to.
What you need is a NAS! A network acessed storage. It makes backing up stuff a lot easier AND it's away from your PC. So if something really horrible happens and your PC got fried by your PSU: You got a backup. It can be expensive but it's the best option!
I tool an old Dell Inspiron with a 4th gen Intel dual core, a put more RAM in it (16 gigs, I went overkill), swapped out the optical drive for another HDD bay, and put a 16gb Optane NVMe into the USB port and loaded it with TrueNAS. And it's been amazing! The little CPU handles it like a champ, doesn't even get above idle. Much cheaper than buying a pre-built, which often uses hardware RAID (eww).
@@hedgeearthridge6807 I just did the same thing with an intel 8th gen i3 I had laying around. I had a z370 motherboard that was EATX with like 10 sata ports. So I can pretty much just slap 60 terabytes of hdd's in there and forget about it. Good for recycling parts.
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@@CornRecords972 Or just use a 10 year old 3rd gen Intel board + an 8-port HBA for 14+ SATA ports :P
if he already got a second pc thats essentially a NAS.
Backing up my WIP videos has become a habit for me! I recently started working on 6-10 videos at a time and sometimes they're not done for months! Very scary to think about starting over :(
Fuck it. I love you Philip. I'm so grateful you exist, you are brill and I love your videos, personality and music. Oh god, the MUSIC.
ALSO You manifest some kind of Britishness that gives me some hope for our dingy Island. That is, I respect and empathise with your way of looking at things and it makes me feel some level of hope and love for the people of this place knowing maybe we're actually pretty good. (in particular the southerners, as I'm northern). This ofc not even related to the vid, but just wanted to spread some love, because I've watched a million of your vids and rarely comment. You've really earned it ((the love) (I'm not a hippy)). I've been watching all your videos since 2015 and have many great "memories" watching your vids. 2 am in my last year in law school in 2016 nwatching your sleep video(/s?) whilst still a bit high on ritalin. That is to say, nostalgic - something you certainly understand (ie, the profundacy of everyday life patterns and relatively mundane experiences).
Just letting you know. Keep it rocking because you are a rock to me (a minor one admittadly, you're not my mum or my dad or my wife, but still, you're a minor (but important) character in my life as it passes unbeknownst to you. Definitely above the bossman of my local shop (who I love dearly) but slightly below my best work-friend colleague who I also dearly, but probably rely on slightly more day to day. But you're up there - mid to top table.
I promise I'm not a weirdo. How could I be - I'm a lawyer (now, 7 years later).
Cheerio from manchesta
BTW 2 and '1' have always been my favorite Philip channels.
@@kliksphilip my milkman would be devestated.
Veeam is bloody fantastic, you can create 1 backup job for free that covers Windows itself + any number of disks.
Incremental, scheduled, bootable backups.
Highly recommend.
As someone whose GPU died, I understand what it's like to slice your hands when reaching inside your case. As for mitigating against data loss, I like to search for portable versions of software I use and put them on a separate drive from my OS. So if my OS drive dies, I don't need to reinstall everything including old or long lost software (and because it's portable, you can easily back it up because it doesn't write to the windows registry)
very glad the backup PC came in useful. i loved today's cpu power video.
-burger40
In the BIOS at 3:09 :
Wi-Fi 6 Mode for [CountryName]
It is an important setting because different countries use Wi-Fi differently.
Lovely video, by the way.
"How to backup like me" video please! It's something that we all need to do, but nobody does.
I can't get enough of Digadig, it's such a great track.
1:31 that car roll 😂
Thanks for making a vid on this, it's the push I needed to actually get a proper backup setup
I bought a ridiculous looking midi tower years ago, a thermaltake Level 10 GT snow edition. Looks like a space ship, but it has very, very good airflow, as well as hotswap trays for five hard drives. No matter how many times I upgrade my computer, the case stays. It is so immensely convenient. I love it!
Glad you got it sorted, such a pain when main drive fails, still need to sort out the Mrs' PC at some point
Hey Philip, not sure if you are aware but since you mentioned having problems with the amount of m.2 SSDs you can employ, you can buy a few PCIe to m.2 adapters. They are relatively inexpensive and most motherboards have quite a few pcie slots that end up being unused. In my old pc I had 3 of those running for a total of 5 fully functional m.2 ssds in my pc. Might be something that is interesting for you. Especially since the SSDs running through the PCIe slots behave like you would expect.
You might have already considered it, but a password manager that syncs across devices would possibly saved you alot of headache. BitWarden is free and open source and works nice.
Also maybe get a NAS for central storage? Should work nice with your backup PC as well.
03:13 - I was stunned when he mentioned passwords. I've been using keepassxc for a few years now and it's brilliant; hooked up to a file on Google-Drive/OneDrive/Dropbox means I have access to it across any of my systems (phone included) and it syncs automatically. Only have to remember a single master pass-word/phrase!
Bitwarden is also a great free solution that works great and has good ux.
@@kliksphilip It's only a single point of failure if you use it without 2FA, which nobody sensible does.
The truth is there is no eliminating a single point of failure for online accounts. I've tried very hard, but at the end of the day if the company I buy my domain from kicks me out then I would not be able to have my email address. Passwords are rather transient by comparison. I trust domain registrars more than email providers, but at the end of the day there is no getting around the need for trust.
@@kliksphilip Not if you use self hosted Bitwarden. ;)
As someone who organises stuff like this for a living. Projects you should really be using a network share located on a raid array backed up on a separate drive.
I.e. you work on the RAID and back that up, ideally once a day onto a backup drive.
That way you can just access your productive environment from your backup pc instantly and you're protected from both drive failure and accidental deletion.
I wouldn't be surprised if it was the 4090 melting the drive underneath that caused it to fail :D
Build a system which runs Unraid. It's amazing. I have a system running on old hardware (3770 and 8GB of DDR3) and Unraid has all my computers back up to it (which the very important stuff automatically backing up to a cloud storage). Along with loads of other automated stuff like download, media serving, file serving, etc, it's just amazing, and I don't know how or why I didn't get it running sooner. It runs cool, doesn't use much power, I've it connected to a UPS, so if power goes out, it shuts down gracefully, it's has cache drive redundancies, drive redundancies... and on a reasonable budget. EDIT: just saw your sticky, and I see my comment is not very relevant to your situation. Maybe the lack of desktop backup could be implemented tho. Others will maybe see this and find it useful. Good luck with the fresh install etc. I always dred, but also love the thought of a fresh Windows install. So in some ways, I don't envy you, but I'm also a little bit jealous that you'll have a spanking new, uber fresh set up soon, even if you've been horribly forced into it!
I second unraid. The man already has a bunch of spare computers lying around, perfect to do an unraid build. Assuming he was doing at least daily backups of ongoing projects, all of his data would have been accessible by any other PCs on the network, he wouldn't have to worry about prying drives out of builds and swapping disks around, just pull the folder over the network onto the spare PC and keep going.
2Tb black drives never die. I have a caviar black from 2009 that still runs flawlessly and has perfect health. I expect it to last 15 years.
i always love kliksphilip thumbnails because they consistently make me want to not click the video
I love how everyone totes that "SSDs have no moving parts" implying they're somehow not going to fail, when in reality Silicon ages and fails just like hard drives do. I always have two drives in RAID0, a second PC, and regular backups made to my NAS (with 6+2P drives in RAID6).
Hi Philip, if I were you I'd dabble into either setting up a NAS or modifying the back-up you currently already have into one, you don't even need any special software as a shared drive will do. With windows backup you can sync all your files and setting to it automatically so it's an easy restore and reachable from the back-up PC or a laptop. If you do want to do it properly with raid or parity I'd recommend going with a dedicated system like Unraid (use an old PC) or Synology which also offer self hosted password managers without subscriptions and other neet stuff.
I also had some issues with a postal service recently, but maybe not as frustrating. This is reminding me to keep my skyrim mod folder backup up to date, time to do that!
Thanks for the video Philip, you've just made me to perform a backup drill.
(Or if I'm too lazy at least I'll do it in theory. So I'll find at least some of the weaknesses.)
*starts backing up PC while watching this*
Always nice to see I’m not the only PhiLip (1 L) have to deal with ridiculous impatience with tech issues that are just spaghetti mess
This happened to me three weeks ago funnily enough. It was surprising to say the least, seeing as several older mechanical hard drives of mine nearly 10 years old have outlasted my three year old nvme! Didn't lose too much, apart from a several old save games including my first Skyrim character which hurt a little. Life continues though, and now I plan to introduce proper storage redundancy measures going forward.
I don't back up my projects until I've finished them either. Except right now, because I've succumbed to the fear of spontaneous drive failure.
Sounds like one of those 4 bay NAS's would be a good option for long term storage. You could run Resilio sync to sync folders between your Main PC/Backup PC and a nas if you got one.
I've decided to go M.2 only on my main rig and have a home server for media/long term storage and backups. Not to mention a 1tb of google drive to put encrypted backups on as failsafe incase of housefire/theft/flooding.
Guess you have TB's of raw videos so maybe a few portable hard drvies (with encryption) could be stored at a family members house.
Was thinking about this literally last night. The universe is warning me, time to do a full backup.
This happened to me the other day as well, but without the backups lol. After a fresh install and the loss of all my files, I can say that I will never go without backing my stuff up again
Now that you've made a proper plan in case your drive fails again, your drive will NEVER fail again :D
im sorry for your loss philippe...
glad to hear dead SSDs are recoverable somewhat
Phil needs a backblaze sponsorship...
And to setup bit warden.
I still have my 12 year old hard drive as my main storage since im a cheap skate, as long as it works i dont care enough to upgrade
Now that's a coincidence... I also had my PC die on me a few days ago. I got lucky just a couple of hours ago and it is now running again with a fresh Windows install. There are uni-files being copied over right at this moment. The worrying thing is that I still do not know what the cause of the problem was. The BIOS had to be restored a couple of times and I seriously thought that I had to bin the MoBo. At least my SSD seems to be fine. 😅
This and previous thumbnails are fucking bananas ridiculous and I love it
Would reccomend getting a NVME enclosure. You can use it for important external files and drop it in as a backup.
I've been worried about something like this happening for a while, so luckily I have a pretty comprehensive backup system. Still, it's super frustrating when it happens.
I had a problem back in June with my MOBO breaking/dying.
At first I thought the CMOS battery was on its way out so I replaced it but had to remove my GPU multiple times till eventually it booted up properly but the problem persisted the next day which is when I realised it could be the MOBO after testing the boot sequence multiple times on spares I have lying around.
So, decided to order a whole new PC as my CPU was an old i7 from 2014.
When the parts came, the glass on the PC case was shattered into a million pieces while in transit which was great fun cleaning up :^)
Was a great start to my summer holiday from Uni
Those banana images are f@cking horrifying.
3:25 AHH!! sweetheart!! she is doing so well!!!!
That sucks. I haven't had a SSD fail since the ocz days. Lucky me I guess.
Also speaking of royal mail, the last item I sent with them was using Special Delivery by 1pm next day. It somehow disappeared from the post office and was delivered 3 Months later!
R.İ.P. Phil's main drive. Your efforts shall not be forgotten... Probably.
Hey Phil, I use a brilliant piece of software called resilio sync, it has a free version which I use (and paid options) it syncs all my data between my 3 computers, using a torrent client. It’s really is great and just works in the background without you having to do anything. Also has options to sync to encrypted offsite backups, I highly recommend you take a look and see if it helps with your workflow across two machines! Love the channels dude long time fan, hope this helps!
When my 2TB 980 Pro died it went read only and it took a while to figure out that it did but once I did I scoured around for a windows flash drive (I have a few laying around and somehow got one of the non server ones) and installed it in a partition on a 1TB Sata SSD that then became my boot drive. Once that happened I grabbed a 2TB SSHD (2.5" drive aka worse than a normal hard drive that I didn't use before I hated it) and backed up my entire 980 Pro to that. Was actually happy about it because my windows install was about 6 years old and was seriously botched after that time plus upgrading to win 11 (Currently still on win 10 and it will stay that way. Too many issue with 11 currently.) But for anything I need from my old install I can just access that 2TB SSHD and fire up any program or file I need from it. Messy but my workflow has always been messy.
I've started backing everything important up to an unraid server in a spare room, with 2 disks worth of parity. If I'm working on a video project on my main editing/rendering PC the data is saved there, but there is also a copy saved to unraid that can be accessed by any other PC on the network (assuming they have the correct credentials).
couldn't help laughing at all the AI generated banana people
Its a shame there isnt something like GIT for video editing. I switch between a bunch of computers for software development. Ive never really had to think of backups since its all easily accesible through the cloud.
Dvinci Resolve can save to a database to distribute working on one project
There isn't anything stopping you from using git for video editing. GIT LFS for large media files, normal git for the project files. Not ideal, but it works.
@@kliksphilip FreeFileSync would work well for you.
Create a shared drive on your back PC and map it to your main PC.
Then just push your changes 1-way over the network, keeping your backup PC 100% ready to use.
Obviously a NAS would help too, but this way requires zero extra hardware.
Haha yeah, I've had the same problem recently with my phone just dying on me completely out of the blue, and since it was encrypted, I lost everything, and I didn't even have a proper backup! I just never had the spare space for a real backup, and apart from images and a couple of different things, everything was gone, including all my 2-Factor Authenticators which were just... Terrible to set up again.
Now I'm still thinking of a proper way to preserve such things
I don't know if someone mentioned this, but if you have enough free space (and money) to spare, you can create a RAID (probably version 1/5 depending on the count).
This will ensure that one drive can fail without any data loss (at the cost of more CPU usage and less storage space than all drives combined)
You should use a backup software like Macrium Reflect. Not just to backup important files but also to make image backups of your system drive so you can migrate/restore your OS installation to new drives.
Macrium is super convenient for this. Just make your OS partition small (like 256GB) and keep daily backups on an external drive or NAS, and have bootable media ready to restore.
Yep, my MP600 2TB failed on me earlier this year as well. It was also very confusing because looking at dmesg, it looked like the Mp600 was literally resetting itself during usage? Not sure, but it resulted in similar super-strange pc death until you eventually lock up.
Lucky for me I have a scheduled task to send a snapshot of my computer’s zfs root and home zfs datasets to my nas behind be at every boot or otherwise every 12 hours if left online.
The nas runs a scrub on the data monthly so I know it’s ok. That nas also forwards those snapshots to a remote storage server in case my house literally burns down.
It was a bummer but man, backups are good.
I had an mp600 as well and it failed a couple months ago!
Getting an rma as it is under warranty and yours probably is too
I too currently have an MP600 as my main drive. It's at 93% health with some reallocated sectors. Hope I don't have to go through the same ordeal any time soon
In short, redundancy and backups are different things folks
The cursed P drive
You could also make your backup pc a home server. I used unraid and my desktop gets backed up daily along with some other folders at different time intervals. So if my main drive does go down I just still access the files from my laptop and just redownload once i put in a new drive.
When I worked in theatre I noticed that all of the computers running the show would be synced to a second computer, doing the exact same actions with the exact same files at the same time. Meaning that if one PC failed during a show, you could flip a switch and go to the backup PC which was identical to the other one.
I'm not telling Phillip what to do but I use rsync and two NAS with OMV. Ones off site and both use different media types, ensuring near daily backups. Plex is now a freak of nature.
I also had a 2TB MP600 fail on me a few months ago. The drive gave me sporadeous blue screens from the beginning but I thought the problem wasnt my SSD. Until it completely failed and I lost some data which was not backed up to my raid 1. Now I basically bought the aorus version of the same drive, hoping for the best lol
lifehack for next time you need to take out your GPU a bunch of times: Put some chopsticks in your toolbox. Ideally some longer than the height of those oversized coolers. If you're crafty enough to can even use them to install the CPU power plugs in the top left corner of the motherboard.
I've always used Samsung NVME ssd's. They're not the quickest but they are really reliable
This song is my favourite
Duplicati is a cool software that allows for continuous (like, every hour) incremental (only the bytes that changed) backups that get thinned out over time.
It even does deduplication on a block-by-block basis. So, if you have two video files that are 99% the same, it only copies the 1% that changed.
From my research it is the best free thing out there. If anyone disagrees, please tell me! I want to know!
I have one suggestion: Create a disk image with all the necessary stuff already installed/set up, so whenever you run into this issue again or if you want to format your PC, you can just clone the disk image to your main SSD
Was wondering midway if this was gonna be a full on ad for a password manager/protector lmao
Maybe you should consider getting a NAS for backups and general mass storage
3:28 so cute face on that Kitty :D
those nanner pics gave me anxiety
craziest story ive done about storage was on my phone i somehow managed to sleep factory reset it, i was mad but i think it was a turning point and now im not that mad cause the files i had wasnt really important
Personally I recommend everybody carry 3 backup PCs at all time but that may be excessive for some use cases.
I have a "once a month" schedule in outlook where i fire up acronis and make a backup of my Workstation OS to my NAS. Once a year i have a schedule in outlook where i test that backup on my old laptop. hasnt failed me since. Hopefully that stays like that.
Woah, I would've expected you to be the guy with a RAID. By the way, have you considered getting a PCIe to SATA card?
Hey can you show a decent backup system for normal people? I'd be interested in setting up a backup but never bothered.
If you have many HDDs in your main PC and might also access them from another PC, you should really get a NAS. It will make your life a lot easier. Also I really feel your hassle with getting to the mainboard with a huge GPU and CPU cooler.
I had the same problem but with a samsung 860 evo. Brand new 2nd drive, 3 days later it died mid game in cyberpunk (Go figure). I ordered a new one and now it works, but now my inland prime ssd (Been 2 months since i've had it) suddenly corrupted my nvidia gpu drivers. I'm gonna keep using it and hope it was another problem. Overall people give way too much credit for SSD's being this reliable form of storage, more so than HDD. Which it isn't and never can be. They're certainly "reliable", just not reliable enough for me to ever use it as a backup drive.
BRUVA please make a video how you implement your back-up-pc (software, set up ect etc) thanks :)
Macrium Reflect is great backup software.
earlier this year I had a similar issue where my SSD just failed and marked my work drive as formatted deleting (2TB) 5 years' worth of work. I had no backups (Stupid), but I managed to recover many things. Long story short I now use Cloud backups
1:11 Nice headshots.
WHAT THE HELL? PHILIP ACTUALLY FINISHING A GTA GAME?? Never thought i'd see the day lol
Niko! All you had to do was get on the damn bike, Niko.
(1:40)
If you don't mind about the electricity cost, what about keeping the backup PC on all the time? You can kinda make it as your main data dump that you don't need immediate access to, and make your main computer just some editing/short-term data storage/gaming computer? The local LAN speeds are above gigabits with how the things look like, and you can make it for a relatively cheap price.
One of the benefits of having a local backup PC/data dump and sorts is you can install plex to watch stuff, or use it to run some benchmarks of games while you use your main PC? I see infinite possibilities with this, and that's what my father is currently doing with his kinda server-y build. Though he also uses it for his profession
And you can kinda write a small script that backs up some set files everyday to that backup PC. Tons of companies are using auto-backup apps, as it's just a hassle to do bear up with the off time backups make.
Holy shit, I went through this exact thing last weekend.
I had one more nice thing, my USB-drive just failed on me, mid re-install 🙃
What game at 0:25?
Also I use backblaze personally. Just a random anecdote. It's a continuous backup which is nice. I'm still waiting on a drive failure...
Wouldn't be better for your needs to have an external backup system. I mean, a case with the hard disks you need and a power supply, connected to the main pc with just a cable. Something similar to a NAS, but without the network. Your mechanical disks have a limited write and read speed anyway, so there's no need to keep them attached to the sata ports of the motherboard.
Why is no-one talking about the terrifying banana people.
Did you use the drives warranty or pay for a new one?