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pod · 04-24-2006, 01:02 PM

Data recovery is fun.

Apotheosis · 04-24-2006, 01:22 PM

NERD ALERT

pod · 04-24-2006, 01:42 PM

It's expensive. Not for the faint of heart.

Civs · 04-24-2006, 10:54 PM

i agree. back up the data. Lacie makes some nice drives for backing up purposes. 600GB runs for around $450

pod · 04-25-2006, 12:03 AM

Not even.

Hard drives will fail. Realistically you should look into near-line backups, and offsite storage of copies. There's many schools of thought on what to use, from tape streamers, to multiple hard drives, to DVDs, and Internet storage.

The drive that failed on me was a LaCie as a matter of fact. Somehow, the unit physically malfunctioned. Had to send it to Drive Savers, a data recovery firm.

The bill was no fun. Like major medical procedure no fun.

ILLMATIC · 04-25-2006, 12:04 AM

Or you can pick up one of these bad boys!

LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2 Terabyte with Triple Interface

I get to see these kinds of toys at work all day.

pod · 04-25-2006, 12:08 AM

The nice thing about those is they use a cluster of drives to do the 2 TB total, so it's not like you're totally fucked if there's a problem, unless it goes to multiple drives.

I wonder if you could do some sort of RAID internal on that?

trancepriest · 04-25-2006, 12:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pod

The nice thing about those is they use a cluster of drives to do the 2 TB total, so it's not like you're totally fucked if there's a problem, unless it goes to multiple drives.

I wonder if you could do some sort of RAID internal on that?

You can't... and if there is a problem on one drive you are fucked.

pod · 04-25-2006, 12:31 AM

Scratch that then.

Though in theory couldn't you crack the case and pull out the remaining functional ones? This is just a fancy SATA-USB/Firewire adapter casing, right?

Big storage is fun, but redundancy is necessary.

trancepriest · 04-25-2006, 02:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pod

Scratch that then.

Though in theory couldn't you crack the case and pull out the remaining functional ones? This is just a fancy SATA-USB/Firewire adapter casing, right?

Big storage is fun, but redundancy is necessary.

I have the Lacie 500GB... I'm thinking its 2 IDE drives with a RAID 0 controller. SO if one drive dies... you can open the housing and recover the physical drive... but not the data because of the striping.

04-24-2006, 01:02 PM	#1 (permalink)
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pod Non Sufficit Orbis Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 26,147	Re:Back up your data. Not even. Hard drives will fail. Realistically you should look into near-line backups, and offsite storage of copies. There's many schools of thought on what to use, from tape streamers, to multiple hard drives, to DVDs, and Internet storage. The drive that failed on me was a LaCie as a matter of fact. Somehow, the unit physically malfunctioned. Had to send it to Drive Savers, a data recovery firm. The bill was no fun. Like major medical procedure no fun. __________________ cold beer and dirty girls

04-25-2006, 12:04 AM	#6 (permalink)
ILLMATIC CoolJunkie Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Miami, FL Posts: 1,448	Re:Back up your data. Or you can pick up one of these bad boys! LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2 Terabyte with Triple Interface I get to see these kinds of toys at work all day. __________________ One day it will all make sense! MR T

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04-25-2006, 12:31 AM	#9 (permalink)
pod Non Sufficit Orbis Join Date: Feb 2003 Posts: 26,147	Re:Back up your data. Scratch that then. Though in theory couldn't you crack the case and pull out the remaining functional ones? This is just a fancy SATA-USB/Firewire adapter casing, right? Big storage is fun, but redundancy is necessary. __________________ cold beer and dirty girls

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