There is, it’s called a spare external disk drive...
I have a couple of 2TB portable drives, I used them to back up my old laptop and kept everything I didn’t want to lose on there....
Monitor the drive, as it fills up, get another and keep going....
Bottom line, monitor your storage, don’t install applications on a whim, actually need the app before installing and got thru from time to time and remove apps you haven’t used in a while....
Assuming this is a real issue, pay attention to your devices and you want have a problem..
Costco had 1T external SSDs for $139 when I was there in the last few days. It wasn’t that long ago that rotating drives cost that much.
It is a real issue (despite the dramatic original post) and it's been known for decades. Anyone who's ever watched a drive repair or disk optimization program run "back in the day" saw when a spot on a hdd got marked as bad and relocated to a spare.
I still remember when it happened on 20Mb MFM drives in my old 80286. Consumers just don't see it happening because it's automatically handled by the hardware itself now.
There's also Smart H.D.D. which quickly and easily shows all the stats on a HDD/SDD/nVME drive you'd ever want to know.
I'm pretty sure ifinnegan was being sarcastic. :-)
I lost one of those. In all fairness, I didn't drop it more than a couple of times.