Lost It All

UPDATE: I got one HDD to post and am backing up to backblaze now. Trying to get second HDD to post but no luck and this is the one making some noises.

Lost my entire Plex Library.

DAS with two HDDs fell off the shelf maybe 2ft to impact. Neither of them show in File Explorer, Disk Management or CrystalDisk. Pretty sure they are both dead.

Trying to recover the data professionally is not really feasible given the cost and reliability even if it were to be recovered. I'm thinking I can gather about 75% of the media over a couple months.

Has anyone else had this happen to you? How did you recover, just feeling pretty bummed out. The time and effort that goes into this over the years makes you think if it was really worth it or if you should even rebuild.

I only had a handful of friends and family using it and they have no understanding of what goes into gathering the actual media and effort into the custom artwork and title cards along with the time to organize and streamline the process.

Very upsetting to say the least. Luckily MiniPC is still okay and PMS is intact just the library was affected, but not sure with the current HDD pricing if I can continue.