After a very good experience with a 500GB hard drive from the same company, I decided to buy a 1TB one.
Everything was fine until now, almost a month since I got the hard drive. I transferred all the data from my other devices and hard drives and now I use them for other tasks and deleted some files so I don't have them duplicated.
I have stored my whole life and work on this disk! Thank God, I didn't delete all the data from the other hard drives/devices.
Suddenly today, 15/05/24, I connect the hard drive AND IT DOESN'T READ IT!!! I have tried everything, disconnected, connected again, tried, changed the socket, restarted the laptop, turned it off, waited for a few minutes, tried again and again. At some point, it read it! But it showed my files as corrupted!!! It couldn't open them!!!
I have had consecutive mental breakdowns and I can't digest the fact that I spent almost 3 days organizing all my data on this hard drive, deleting some data from my old devices!!!!
For almost half a day, the hard drive was useless! It made noises and mysterious sounds and I thought it was on its deathbed.... At some point, after HOURS! I stopped. I was sure that I lost everything.
I gathered my pieces, said a Thank God and wished for good health, but until the evening it was my only thought. What did I lose and from which devices...
In the evening, without any hope, and just for the heck of it, I connected it again... On the same laptop, in the same port, with the same socket...
EVERYTHING IS FINE!!! I started opening files one by one... Everything is perfect! I took the old 500GB Toshiba, formatted it, and transferred all the data.
The 1TB is functioning normally now. But my trust is lost forever...
Maybe it was a hardware glitch... which eventually worked out?
Honestly, I don't know what happened.
However, three stars because I went through all this trouble.
