OCIPMS to the rescue, AGAIN! Damn fine group of folks. I miss them. Paul M.
----- Original Message ----- From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 11:31 PM Subject: [Papermodels II 36563] Re: Dang ... In a message dated 5/14/09 12:39:57 PM, [email protected] writes: You will be a LOT safer with optical storage than trusting HDs because when (not if) those HDs fail you can smile and know you have lost very little. cat Hi Folks, Remember last year I informed the group that my LaCie external hard drive had failed? With this discussion involving saving to discs and external Hard Drives, I figured you would be interested in “The Rest Of The Story.” I was under the impression that paying hundreds of dollars for a “storage unit” hard drive was a smart move. When my LaCie failed and I e-mailed this international group of paper modelers; much was said about external hard drives piled up as door stops; the following days I was more than surprised to read about all the external drive failures experienced by our members. The MAC store people never mentioned such failures. The MAC Service Department charged $60.00 bucks and did not even open the case. All they did was plug it in and tell me the data was unrecoverable. At one of the IPMS meetings, Master Modeler Jim Nunn offered to take a look at my useless LaCie. December 18th 2008 Jim E-mailed the following: ”Without spending an amount equal to the cost of a complete new drive I could not find a case that would work with your drives interface (PATA) and have a firewire capability. So I went with a high speed USB interface. The USB interface is some what slower then firewire but you could still use it in a RAID configuration for backup and it will work quite well for a typical backup drive. I know it is working but I want to check it out on a MAC and I should be able to do that tomorrow.” He did and it worked. All the data is recoverable. Jim purchased parts at our local Fry’s Electronics store, total cost $32.46 Gosh I love this group. Bob Penikas ************** An Excellent Credit Score is 750. See Yours in Just 2 Easy Steps! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1222377005x1201454319/aol?redir=http://www.freecreditreport.com/pm/default.aspx?sc=668072&hmpgID=62&bcd=MayExcfooter51609NO62) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
