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Yesterday was the Worm Moon[^]... they burrowed into your D drive 
Mircea
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My important data is either backed up real-time to Google Drive (free) or MS OneDrive(comes with subscription).
ALL my source code is in Git repos.
I have not used an external drive in years. Thumb-drive, what's that?
Just a thought.
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Yes, I do backup some stuff to MS OneDrive, but I am kind of old fashioned about sensitive data. I prefer to keep that under tight control on my machine and external drives. I just cannot get myself to trust external entities like MS with certain data! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
modified 8-Mar-23 16:55pm.
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Cp-Coder wrote: I just cannot get myself to trust external entities like MS with certain data!
Well I don't keep any political documents in Google or Microsoft cloud drives as they have publicly announced that they scan all upload and stored documents for "hate speech", and I might me labeled a terrorist, cancelled, imprisoned, tortured, dismembered, and scattered to the 4 corners of the earth (I added that for the flat-earthers lol).
Other than that, I should be fine. 
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Cp-Coder wrote: I prefer to keep that under tight control on my machine and external drives.
Makes sense... what do you do for an off-site back-up in case of fire or natural disaster?
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I have a few high capacity flash drives stored at a family member's address.
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You've finally given me a use for my safety deposit box! (Out of sight, out of mind).
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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Quote: You've finally given me a use for my safety deposit box!
You mean apart from the millions you have stashed there? 
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I have a 9TB Raid5 SSD. It is fast and reliable. It is large enough to do mirror images of my Desktop.
I don't do enough "heavy duty" development that makes speed a major requirement.
It was somewhat expensive to implement but has been rock solid since then.
I have been happy with it ever since.
ed
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As I was tightening down the heat spreader plate over my nvmes and then securing 20lbs of aluminum heatsink and one of the cinderblock-sized GPUs of today over the top the idea of something like this crossed my mind like remembering some scene of any random horror movie. Trying to reseat them would be like trying to service the least serviceable auto.
There are disk checkers I think work for SSDs as well as HDs and will flag bits as unusable.
I'm not sure why SSDs would altogether fail after some point of use. That would be fishy if they all did that. Seems more like as the NAND wears thin you'd lose more and more usable capacity over time.
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This might not be bad news for your drive.
It is possible for some fixed drives to be removed in Windows (I guess to support hot swappable drives). They will then not be visible to Windows, even through reboots.
Is it possible you accidentally removed that drive?
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Quote: Is it possible you accidentally removed that drive?
No. The drive is internal to the machine, plugged directly into the PCI bus using an adapter. It has never been removed in 3 years!
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I do a weekly backup of all computers in my home network. The stuff in my development folder is backed up daily. With that setup, I am reasonably certain to lose only less than one day's work.
(Of course, it's always possible that my backup server AND my computer will go south simultaneously...  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Quote: Of course, it's always possible that my backup server AND my computer will go south simultaneously
Which is why I keep more than one backup!
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When I was actively working, I had 3 computers in my office, with all work automatically copied to all 3. Worked like a champ. When 1 computer glitched, I just moved to another and kept working. Everythin was fine until some hoodlums broke into my office and stole all 3 computers. Fortunately I had just made a complete backup of all 3 on a giant external drive, so life went on once I bought new systemssystems.The worst suffering was to my bank account.
modified 9-Mar-23 12:35pm.
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That's OK ... I replaced a breaker (several times) because I missed the ground fault breaker. Or the keyboard came unplugged. Or the cat jiggled the HDMI cable and the monitor went dead ...
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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I am having almost same situation. My system is a little over a year old. Drive C is my NVE SSD drive. Drive D is 2TB HDD sata drive. Your symptoms sound very much like mine and I did the same preventative steps. Even though D is currently working, I ordered a replacement for it (not expensive). I'll swap it out and use the old drive as second backup (I had sata USB connector to allow it become an external drive). My experience is that once a drive starts acting up do something quick.
Hopefully it's just the drive and not some controller issue. BTW I use HDDScan to give me drive temperature readings (not sure how accurate but that drive sometimes runs hot 40+C)
Anyway, good luck.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Thanks! But it is a Samsung drive and I ran Samsung Magician software to check it out. It found nothing wrong, but still I don't trust it! 
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Mine is Seagate. I have had good luck with this brand, but I still don't trust this drive either.
Just got my replacement 5 mins ago.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Get something that can read the smart data like CrystalDiskInfo and check the health of the SSD. SSDs have a limited number of write cycles and are often rated in TBW - Terabytes Written.
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Good point! It was 3 years old and had been used extensively on a daily basis. It may be suffering from old age! 
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cp-Coder wrote: As a last resort I restored the system drive to a Macrium image taken just yesterday, with little hope that that will recover access to the D drive. But it worked! Now my D drive is visible again!
So, something changed on the system drive that lead the OS to think there was no D: drive, and restoring the backup of the system drive brought that back...?
Maybe the dying drive is NOT your D: drive at all...
I can't help but wonder whether--while your system was in that state--the BIOS was seeing your secondary drive at all. Probably can't determine that now...
Either way...yeah, back up religiously. Someone mentioned a RAID configuration...I never miss an opportunity to point out that RAID isn't a backup solution. I've had a RAID controller give up - no fun (all drives individually were fine). Given the extra hassle of setting up RAIDs - while I liked the idea (at first) I stopped playing with the technology, have gone single-drive and never looked back.
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