hard drives went down sigh

[andy25]

bad day for me today, was going to look in some of my old hard drives today and out of the Ten old ones three was not working.

one of them had some of my fav of vid on it :angry:

got most off the vids and pics of off them. But the 3 one was just all gone.

it had all my RB vids from the around 2000-2010 so mad at myself

i lost all my xandor scott and blake rilys vids

so now its time to join that site and get my vids back oh what a long night it will be, wish me luck

 

[bigsal]

I understand and share your disappointment. Also to me have happened a similar thing recently.

 

[tonka]

I've lost a few. For me, it's a momentary loss. It's the new porn that draws my attention.
Some day, the solid state drives will be cheap and these whirling drives will be behind us.

 

[ihno]

I have six externals btw.

As for crash and loss: That's why I always make security copies. At least for the important stuff. I use a little very helpful tool: filesync, which compares two folders and updates the new stuff.
http://anonym.to/http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/

Once a month, quickly done.

As for external harddrives: if you don't have them attached all the time you should connect them from time to time. That makes them live longer.

 

[andy25]

thanks for the free file sync link, lost around 550 gigs witch is some but that's only about 20% of what i have or less

 

[slimjim]

It could have been worse.... :duh::duh::duh:

http://refhide.com/?http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-25134289

 

[explrrrs]

Does anyone have any suggestions what hard drive might be of better investment?

 

[name_1]

I'm using Buffalo Extreme Mini Station. Perhaps the additional layers will prevent the drive from crashing? I'm not too sure. Consider those using drive bays though, it seems wayy more convenient to swap between drives. especially if you have 6

 

[gb2000ie]

Does anyone have any suggestions what hard drive might be of better investment?

Assuming you stick to a major brand (Seagate, Western Digital or Maxator), there is no real difference.

For every person like me who has had TERRIBLE luck with Seagate and fantastic experiences with Western Digital, you'll find someone who's been badly let down WD and who swears by Seagate.

I go to a site like http://refhide.com/?http://www.dabs.ie, filter by the specs I need, then sort by price ascending and buy the first hit.

B.

 

[topdog]

I agree with gb. Your best investment would be to buy two drives. I have an external "toaster" style enclosure. Very easy to pop drives in and out. This lets me use old drives I have laying around, and also when I buy a new drive I just get the bare hard disk so it's less expensive.

 

[gb2000ie]

I agree with gb. Your best investment would be to buy two drives. I have an external "toaster" style enclosure. Very easy to pop drives in and out. This lets me use old drives I have laying around, and also when I buy a new drive I just get the bare hard disk so it's less expensive.

I do this too.

I buy real enclosures for my primary drives, and use bare disks for all my backup drives, which I connect using a Toaster dock like Topdog's pic shows. It's a very efficient model IMO, and financially efficient.

B.