:( silent corruption is the worst ;-; HDDs have a very high capacity but unfortunately have also high failure rates, because well, it's spinning rust ;)
Bit rot is a bit overblown. Most "bit rot" instances are just bit flips in RAM, not defects in the medium. In this scenario the corruption was as non-silent as possible: drive relocated sectors, then refused to mount upon corrupting the XFS log. I have no one to blame but myself.
just wonderin, are you mgtow?
Nah. Too many misogynists and nazis in that community for my taste. That's why I'm surprised. But I also think romance and traditional male roles are BS, which some people call MGTOW. I align more with herbivore men cause hating all women and minorities is dumb and regressive.