Hardware monitoring is critical! Unique files will save me!

[ryleybob]

Hard Disk Sentinel always pops up when I start my computer. I usually close it. This time, it was open while I reconnected the USB drive.

SHOCK: One 5TB drive turned the screen red and announced 5% health!

Panic: OMG! I don't have 5TB of free space! What am I going to do?! Will this drive last long enough for me to dedupe 5TB of space?! Hopefully there's a second copy of everything on it because I try to have two backups (and my problem is that I have too many copies). But do I? This is my newest drive, so I could have some unique files on there.

Relief: Oh ya, Duplicate Cleaner has a unique files tab.

Panic: Where's the unique files tab? It's gone in version 5?! (I just upgraded to it.)

Read the manual: Oh, I have to select "Find Remaining" for that drive on the Locations tab. Ok, calm, let's try this.

Rescan disks: I need to connect all 7 disks again and re-scan. This shouldn't take too long because thankfully version 5 remembers the previous scans. (Good to save them too!) Hopefully any unique files fit on my empty 1TB drive.