taffernicus

anyway thank you for the suggestions. i feel like i have to swallow a bitter truth that SSD sometimes doesn't give you a hint in advance when it's on the way out as opposed to HDD. I've seen the worst with HDD : click of death, rough scratching sound and etc. My anecdote is that even though I didn't see anything suspicious about the s.ma.r.t status through the crystaldiskinfo and hdtune software, the end result is that I still get severe errors suddenly.

I think i have neglected SSD maintenance guide. Yep this is purely my own fault. First, I should reevaluate running multiple hyper-v VMs on SSD. I guess the heavy I/O of the VMs could put a strain to SSD wear leveling. Second, i should closely monitor SSD operating temperature , the third is i should do due dilligence when it comes to buying a good SSD and the last is the importance of having UPS(not because my area often has power outages & power brownout but because the electronics in my house often experience short circuits and tripping the circuit breaker)

@The Black Arrow woah i remember the time when SSD was in its infancy. This took me back to late 2011 to 2013 when the capacity of ssd was extremely small (with the smallest one ranging from 40 to 60Gb) and utterly expensive. It costed an arm and a leg to buy SSD with the capacity of 120GB and above. You would often see big brands like Intel (intel 3xx and 5xx), OCZ and corsair fighting SSD market dominance. On that day, most people on tech forums advised you to put the OS on SSD and leave the HDD as the second storage because there was a notion that ssd is not good for long term data storage. Despite a series of ads showing that ssd makes your system faster, at that time I wasn't interested in upgrading to ssd because win7, 8.1 and early version of windows 10 could run fine on spinning disk. It was not until windows 10 1809/1903 that i felt it had become unusable on spinning disk.

i wanna try my luck with ddrescue, Unfortunately my external 3.5" hdd/ssd docking hasn't arrived yet. 

as a former sysadmin, the funny thing is that I used to remind my coworkers about migration and backup, but now i am careless about my own personal data.

it's time to reiterate 321 backup rule

i am not sure if robocopy and clonezilla is reliable in this situation, hope the disk doesn't die quickly

I bet the aljazeera people visiting this website have a user agent string containing the word "press",as in the word "press" imprinted on journalist safety vest. /s /jk

i keep thinking about load balance, i/o process spike and process daemons go crazy while the server down , just my imagination i suppose

nope this is my only account here

btw i like the apparition model used in the dark mod , it looks so menacing 

Found and interesting video that shows apparition(Ghost Giles) from the first person perspective,idk whether or not is it attainable to make such FM. Imagine if the player could fire up to 3 simultaneous ghost skulls   :