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The original was posted on /r/talesfromtechsupport by /u/theoldgaming on 2025-01-21 09:48:38+00:00.

So… My mom was always the person to cheap out on items. Any items. But especially on tech for some reason. Whenever we got something like a phone or tablet it was the lowest end lowest spec device. This is also the reason i never played any games more demanding than Minecraft, until i got myself a Laptop for my own money.

Notably though: she cheaped and still cheaps out on storage devices. First microSD card she ever bought was for me, it failed after 2 weeks and my data got lost. Obviously i was the one who had to try and fix it as she didn’t have a clue how. As a 6 year old at the time, i failed to do so.

Now its been many years since then, she stores all her data on cheap pendrives, microSD cards and 15 year old hard drives. (For comparision) I on the other hand bought a Seagate harddrive and some good quality microSD cards. Now all these old microSD cards and pendrives of hers started corrupting (i went through them a while ago) When i did that i made backups of both her and mine data, which though, she doesn’t know about.

This is not a tech support story yet, but im pretty sure it will be as soon as she realises that all these drives aren’t as good as she thought. Over everything she values memories and photos, though buying a good quality device to store them on is obviously not worth it. I hope she will take a lesson out of it through and stops cheaping out on storage that much, even though i don’t care that much anymore as these are her files not mine. (Why the heck am i ranting about this? You have no idea how much data, photos and progress in games I’ve lost over the years cause of this, plus im passionate about tech so she expects that i “will be able to fix it if it breaks”. Well yeah i can fix a broken PC but data recovery is a different story)

Whether i should tell her about the backup im still debating on, but i think it will be best to wait untill she will want to look at the photos and learns her lesson.