![]() ![]() The next day I logged in to my account only to notice a good 4TB of my data had vanished from my store. The day before the 30-day limit came due, I was starting to think maybe I should contact BB and ensure everything was still safe -but I received an email message stating that it was close to the 30-day limit (as I was aware) but since I was upgraded to the 1-year versioning package, I was not at risk of anything being deleted. ![]() ![]() ![]() Made sense to me and I took their word for it. This would afford me a full year to be able to save up enough funds to buy new drives to offload my data. What was offered to me was to upgrade my service to their 1-year file versioning system as a solution to this situation. This made sense to me -and with the fact that BB claims to only retain a 30-day file versioning feature on their basic backup package, I could be at risk of losing this data at 30 days from the moment of disconnection. Considering BB has no way of telling the difference between a drive disconnection / failure and a simple deletion that could have been performed by the user. I started getting notifications from BB telling me they were seeing a "disconnection" of a number of drives and this could be an issue. A few weeks after that, a second drive failed also with close to 95% of the data uploaded. I saw it coming, and did the best I could to protect things with the money I had available. I had managed to upload around 95% off the drive before then so I was pretty happy with the situation. Sure enough, about a month later, my first drive died. I started the service back in November of 2022 and began uploading from a 200MB/s cable internet connection. So, I chose BB to backup my data in hopes it cold store my files until I was able to upgrade my system with newer drives. I started seeing a pending failure coming from a couple of them on my workstation but am simply not able to purchase new drives to offload the data before the inevitable. I am very closely tied to my data and I keep close tabs on the health of the many hard drives in my fold. I have fallen under very hard financial times in the recent years, and simply don't have the means to do some of the many things I took for granted in the past. I am digital artist, technician, CAD draftsman, among many other hats. ![]()
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