Question External SSD loses data after removing it from the computer ?

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msbento

msbento

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Hi everyone,

I just bought an external 8Tb SSD and I was starting to copy-paste some stuff into it - movies and TV shows basically. However, after removing it from the computer, it always loses the data.
In the pictures below, you'll see:
  • a Dragon Ball Z folder of 251Gb with all the content inside and working fine.
  • a Breaking Bad folder and a Dragon Ball Super folder which together should - theoretically - amount to a bit more than 300Gb.
For some reason, the Dragon Ball Z folder never loses the data. But every time I try to move the Breaking Bad and Dragon Ball Super content, it does so successfully, but when I eventually remove the SSD, only the folders remain while all video files disappear. And I mean, disappear as in they're invisible since when I check the size of the SSD, it says close to 600Gb are being used. So, the content must still be somewhere... no?

I don't know what to do. Is the SSD damaged? Is the cable damaged? Can I do something about it?

Thanks in advance.

Images:
https://ibb.co/8KjvWf2

https://ibb.co/BPrgCH2

https://ibb.co/f1QW591

https://ibb.co/mcxXMb0
 
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msbento said:
Hi everyone,

I just bought an external 8Tb SSD and I was starting to copy-paste some stuff into it - movies and TV shows basically. However, after removing it from the computer, it always loses the data.
In the pictures below, you'll see:
  • a Dragon Ball Z folder of 251Gb with all the content inside and working fine.
  • a Breaking Bad folder and a Dragon Ball Super folder which together should - theoretically - amount to a bit more than 300Gb.
For some reason, the Dragon Ball Z folder never loses the data. But every time I try to move the Breaking Bad and Dragon Ball Super content, it does so successfully, but when I eventually remove the SSD, only the folders remain while all video files disappear. And I mean, disappear as in they're invisible since when I check the size of the SSD, it says close to 600Gb are being used. So, the content must still be somewhere... no?

I don't know what to do. Is the SSD damaged? Is the cable damaged? Can I do something about it?

Thanks in advance.

Images:
https://ibb.co/8KjvWf2

https://ibb.co/BPrgCH2

https://ibb.co/f1QW591

https://ibb.co/mcxXMb0
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Perhaps a little more information: make and model of the ssd; what do you see on the screen as the copy and paste is taking place; how much time has elapsed from when the paste operation is supposedly completed and you disconnect the drive. Also tell us a little more about precisely how you are copy/pasting these files. Are you using Windows Explorer for this and what version of windows are you using? Do you drag them from one point in explorer to another point, or are you using a clipboard copy command and then pasting them to the ssd location?
 
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dwd999 said:
Perhaps a little more information: make and model of the ssd; what do you see on the screen as the copy and paste is taking place; how much time has elapsed from when the paste operation is supposedly completed and you disconnect the drive. Also tell us a little more about precisely how you are copy/pasting these files. Are you using Windows Explorer for this and what version of windows are you using? Do you drag them from one point in explorer to another point, or are you using a clipboard copy command and then pasting them to the ssd location?
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Make and model: https://www.amazon.se/dp/B0BKWFTGX5?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
When copying-pasting, I see the usual copy-paste window with the progress bar, nothing out of the ordinary.
Depends, I've tried disconnecting it right after it finished copying as well as let it stay for hours and hours connected until I disconnect. Always lose the data, except for that Dragon Ball Z folder, for some reason this one never loses data.
Windows 10, just literally copying-pasting with explorer. CTRL+C - CTRL+V from a directory in my second partition of the main HDD (D: basically) into the SSD.
 
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msbento said:
Make and model: https://www.amazon.se/dp/B0BKWFTGX5?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
When copying-pasting, I see the usual copy-paste window with the progress bar, nothing out of the ordinary.
Depends, I've tried disconnecting it right after it finished copying as well as let it stay for hours and hours connected until I disconnect. Always lose the data, except for that Dragon Ball Z folder, for some reason this one never loses data.
Windows 10, just literally copying-pasting with explorer. CTRL+C - CTRL+V from a directory in my second partition of the main HDD (D: basically) into the SSD.
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8TB external SSD for $61 (USD equivalent)

You, my friend, have a bogus device.
There is not 8TB actual space in there.

The firmware has been altered to show 8TB, but it is not.


A real 8TB SSD starts around $600.
Like this one:
https://www.amazon.com/SAMSUNG-870-QVO-SATA-MZ-77Q8T0B/dp/B089C3TZL9
 
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