Amazon ship to Scotland. Can't you buy online?

Some saves where on cloud, and some others in a backup. So yeah, I know backups hehe, the problem most of the "heavy stuff" is:
This, and this one that I lost is actually my third HD, I was already planning to buy another and backup this data, unfortunately I got unlucky before I could do it. :|

I've had lost one with important stuff like photos once. Luckily enough I still had some of them uploaded to social media, but I lost some very good photos of some great moments (birthdays, trips, marriages). It pains me to this day. :( Oh you tinyE you, I see the forums haven't changed xD.
Thanks for your heart, I'm going to eat it to ease the pain.

You sir, underestimate how connections are bad around here, downloading off peak and during work is standard procedure xD

O,O, what do you think the mortality rate is like in Brazil?

Ouch!! Sorry to hear about the failed HD. I hate when things like that happen, especially when you have so much stuff on them that will take forever to recover. If mine were to fail on me it would take me months to recover because of my limited access (Only allowed 200GB/month). If I go over it cost extra money per GB. Yeah an extra HD can be bought fairly cheap these days, it's the time to recover lost data that hurts the most, especially game saves. With that in mind, I keep 2 HD for back up.

PS- This is also why I like that GOG allows unlimited downloads of our games.

LOL!

Cheap hard drives to back stuff does not sound like a good idea to me.

That's one of those lessons that really hurts to learn the hard way. Hopefully you can work to get it all back. I lost several years of writing from my youth in a HD failure back in 2000, I still haven't recovered. It is all lost forever and it feels like I lost part of my soul.

You didn't print off a back up? Thats brutal. My band mates did the same sort of thing but intentional. When we broke up the stupid cunts deleted everything in a huff. Ten years later Im the only one left with any proof of us as a band. Such a waste.

Just to be nosie, what were you writing?

It hurts to try to recall, really, but I feel it was my own neglect and stupity that lost me the writings. It was probably just some really bad poetry and short stories I had written in 7th-12th grade, as well as some stream-of-consciousness stuff. I never like to share my writing, and only ever would print things out to share them (for school), so I had probably a dozen different little creative projects that were just on the computer, I should have printed them. DUMBDUMBDUMB!

I've always bought the cheapest HDDs I've been able to find, and very rarely they die on me (I think I've had a hard drive start malfunctioning for me three times or so, and at least one of those cases was my own stupidity). I have usually already moved on to the next generation (even bigger hard drives) before they show any signs of dying, like moving my old backups that I had on a 300GB HDD to a newer 2TB HDD years later. It is not like I have to keep the files only on one old hard drive from here to eternity.

Also take into account that hard drives last even longer if you are really using them for backups (ie. not using them daily), and not active use. SSDs might be different, they are better for daily use than long-time storage. I found a PATA hard drive which must be well over 15 years old, and all the data I tried on it seemed fine. I just copied any interesting stuff to a newer hard drive from there.

Yes i have all the data that I definitely don't want to lose on two or more hard drives, including my family photos, videos etc. At this point I keep GOG game installers only on one hard drive as those I afford to lose, at this point keeping them on a hard drive is more of a convenience thing (easier to try new games if I don't need to download them first). If I sometime became pessimistic of GOG's survival or thought GOG would change the installers somehow that I don't want (like making them require the Galaxy client), then I'd keep extra copies of them.

In addition to what timppu wrote above, if you are very concerned don't buy the cheapest one. Spend extra 20-30$ and buy a better one. Either way if you can afford 1 TB of data (games, movies photos and whatnot), then you should be able to pay the little bit extra for a backup medium to store an extra copy of them. Whether you go with the cheapest or not it's going to be a small fraction compared to what the data is worth, and it's something that you pay one time only every several years.

RAID 1 and external HDD-s are a must if you collect/hoard stuff. And if you're going to say it's expensive, then please, don't you think your time is worth something?

That is easy to say when you don't have to pay for 3 kids and are not working. haha

But I am assuming that you can afford the 1 TB of data. Even if it's only 300GB games (bought on sales), their cost alone is a lot bigger times that of a back-up medium. I *can* believe that some people might not afford 50$ (if you don't want to go with cheapest HD) every 5 years (that's 10$/year), but those people don't need to anyway.

Either way it is really impossible to argue with the "can't afford it argument" so there is no point in me dragging this discussion further. You remind me of this fellow with his "gaming is only a hobby for the rich".