There's a good chance they can be recovered
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The CDs/DVDs aren’t really too much issue as all the good stuff got released anyway. The current projects SSD failed at the end of the day though, I can’t even see/mount on my Linux machine.
SSDs are designed to counteract sector failure, it's possible to recover it but may be costly.
Just ordered 2 new drives… there’s a back up on Somebody Else’s Computer I can restore from. Just very frustrating as I’d rather be doing other stuff. Also had 2 SSDs just fail now without warning. Trying to figure out why. There’s many many hours of people’s work on this system.
Sorry to hear that, if you’re using Linux then I suggest using a file system called BTRFS. It keeps Snapshots and it’s extremely robust. If you set it up to use RAID 10 then you’re very unlikely to lose data.
I suggest running “journalctl -f” to see any failures or looking through logs. If there’s something causing drives to become corrupt then you want to pick that up as soon as possible!!