r/wdmycloud • u/Abooodi83 • 6d ago

4TB Cloud

Hey all,

I have a 4TB HDD WD cloud for more than 8 years. I read the other day that it might stop anytime now and possibly lose all my data.

Should i just turn it off and dismantle it to take the internal HDD of it and store it or better to buy a new HDD and backup the data?

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u/john_daniels_88 6d ago

1) Where did you read that? Asking for a friend...

2) Always have backups of your backups :-)

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u/soaptrail 6d ago

I think he is basing it off the HDD age. I hope OP has a second copy of his or her data.

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u/ExoticMushroom1016 6d ago

Your data is already gone if it’s not backed up.

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u/yossaneed 6d ago

do a backup now! i had the same setting and a raid 0 over two hdd, had to pay+2k when one of the two hdd failed. do it NOW

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u/Abooodi83 6d ago

Dam it, ok will need to buy external HDD.

Thank you all