Thanks for the offer. My work is already saved in cloud storage thanks to private Git hosting, 3x dedicated servers at Hetzner and Google Drive. I’m not concerned about redownloading software, as my 50Mbps fibre line gets the job done quick enough. It might be worthwhile if you start a thread on it so others can benefit from your experience.
The problem is the stuff I was working on on my local machine for 2 long days. I had to migrate 6GB worth of data from a sharded Mongo environment to MySQL via Node.js. I toiled for hours to get an efficient algorithm working so it can be run in a production environment. Due to the high disk IO of this process, I guess the HDD just decided to call it quits.
I didn’t have time to push the work to Git yet, never mind make a dump of the newly created MySQL database so I won’t have to subject my next poor HDD to the same torture.





