Thanks, Paul - I don't know how long it would take to reformat a 3 TB
drive, but I think it would exceed the time for which the drive is
active. I was thinking of using Darik's Boot N Nuke on it, but it would
not be on line long enough to be wiped. I guess the quesiton becomes -
if the data isn't obvious is it OK to send off...
Mark
On 11/10/2011 10:34 PM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
I wouldn't send the drive off. I'd copy it off to a new one. Then I'd just
reformat the bad drive and send it off. I think drives larger than 1 TB are
prone to problems. But I'm not an IT guy. Others here can answer more
knowledgeably.
Best,
Paul
On Nov 10, 2011, at 10:06 PM, Mark C wrote:
I recently commented that one of my 3TB external drives went bad - apparently
it is the housing only, since the drive will run fine for about 10 minutes and
the just disappear from the computer. After it is unplugged and off for a
while, it works fine again (for another 10 minutes or so.) I have two backups
of the drive - one is a few months old and is offsite, the other is a local
copy. WHen I realized the my other 3TB drive had the *only* copy of several
hundred images I got worried and bought another drive. It took almost 2 days
via USB 2 but I now have two local copies again....
OK - the paranoia part: Turns out that the drive that has crapped out is under
warranty still. Yea! So I have to send it into Western Digital. I can't wipe
the drive (it would take a lot longer than 10 minutes to wipe a 3TB drive) and
I am hesitating about sending off a functional drive (albeit in a bad
enclosure) with virtually every photo I have taken in the last 10 years on it
(all 122,000 of them). We have everyting from 35mm film scans, MF scans, and
every image form a digital camera since my first 3.3mp Coolpix. All my
snowflakes, all the stuff that is in my book, full layouts of all the cards I
used to make for art fairs (front and back), all sorts of stuff. There is
nothing embarrassing or compromising on the drive - aside from the fact that
90+% of the photos absolutely suck - but I balk at just blithely sending off
all these images to who knows where... Am I being unduly paranoid? (As opposed
to duly paranoid...)
Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks for a new enclosure or see if I can
salvage the drive and put in my PC....
Any thoughts?
Mark
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