anyone else ever lost a lot of data off a hard drive

a couple of years ago my external hard drive malfunctioned, it had thousands of pictures and music on it and other precious data, i took it to the local computer shop in 2020, they managed to do data recovery and copy the recovered data to another external drive....but ive just procrastinated since then and not collected the hard drive....so bottom line is; ive lost all that data....because the shop won't do data recovery for me again....so i feel upset and gutted.

has anyone else here ever lost a lot of data, pictures music etc?

SW-User

Not yet ... that's why I have one external drive mirroring the other

I think there is a saying that goes something like "if your data is not in three places, it doesn't exist"