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Join us in War Thunder for FREE at https://playwt.link/joinltt Get an exclusive bonus using our link - thanks for supporting the channel! Your storage device WILL eventually fail. But what if you knew the signs to look for ahead of time so you could react appropriately and save your data? Beat It on FLOPPOTRON by Paweł Zadrożniak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B522GbH3D8 Sounds of a Failed Hard Drive by MausolfB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORsMQfINMOA Discuss on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1445864-failure-is-not-an-option/ Buy a Seagate Exos 20TB HDD: https://geni.us/Pt3x Buy a Western Digital 4TB Red HDD: https://geni.us/AmBKIkt Buy a Toshiba X300 6TB HDD: https://geni.us/D7A1Cn Purchases made through some store links may provide some compensation to Linus Media Group. ► GET MERCH: https://lttstore.com ► SUPPORT US ON FLOATPLANE: https://www.floatplane.com/ ► AFFILIATES, SPONSORS & REFERRALS: https://lmg.gg/sponsors ► PODCAST GEAR: https://lmg.gg/podcastgear FOLLOW US --------------------------------------------------- Twitter: https://twitter.com/linustech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/LinusTech Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/linustech TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@linustech Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/linustech MUSIC CREDIT --------------------------------------------------- Intro: Laszlo - Supernova Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKfxmFU3lWY iTunes Download Link: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/supernova/id936805712 Artist Link: https://soundcloud.com/laszlomusic Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngsGBSCDwcI Listen on Spotify: http://spoti.fi/UxWkUw Artist Link: http://www.youtube.com/approachingnirvana Intro animation by MBarek Abdelwassaa https://www.instagram.com/mbarek_abdel/ Monitor And Keyboard by vadimmihalkevich / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/PgGWp Mechanical RGB Keyboard by BigBrotherECE / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/mj6pHk4 Mouse Gamer free Model By Oscar Creativo / CC BY 4.0 https://geni.us/Ps3XfE CHAPTERS --------------------------------------------------- 0:00 Intro 0:43 Sound 2:23 SMART 3:33 Software 5:45 Used HDDs 7:26 Backups 7:46 Too late 9:45 Outro
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