What I do (at work, and now at home) is to have two identical external hard drives, and copy all my backup stuff to each of them (essentially a poor mans mirror). That covers any mechanical problems, but not software or surge type events. When I fill them up, I keep one as an active copy, and store the extra drive as the backup. Gg -----Original Message----- From: gel-sol@gel-sol.com [mailto:gel-sol@gel-sol.com] Sent: Monday, November 22, 2004 12:06 PM To: Ronald Sansone; What were the skies like when you were young? Subject: Re: [Orb] ot hard drive death Mac...but its a lacie 200 G external. And its a mechanical failure. "Click, click, click." The fucking thing broke less than a day after i bought it. Yer Pal, Gel-Sol
mac or pc? there are lots of diy data recovery apps around .. or was it a mechanical failure?
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:08:06 -0500 (EST), gel-sol@gel-sol.com <gel-sol@gel-sol.com> wrote:
I checked out some data recovery places, and they told me it would be
anywhere from $600-$2900. Fuck that. I just busted open the lacie this weekend and inspected everything. I'm just gonna hold on to it now until I can find a cheap way to recover my stuff. $200 down the drain.
A dvd burner might be the way to go, Alan. I back up most of my stuff to DVD, but i have projects that are over 4.7Gigs...now I'm so paranoid I'm prolly gonna copy my DVDs 2 or 3 times.
Yer Pal, Gel-Sol www.gel-sol.com
Just curious but can't you get that hard drive repaired and recover
at least most of what was on it? That causes me some panicky feelings as I use two external hard drives extensively, and one of them holds all my works in progress. I copy songs back to my fast HD to work on them. I've gotten sloppy about backing up to cd-r as some of these new individual pieces are growing to upwards of a gig each.
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