I had no idea what drive farming was so I did a search and found this
interesting article :
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/
On 2015-06-02 19:58, Nathan England wrote:
They state in the article they use the "drive farming" method of
getting their drives. I use exclusively Seagate because I've never had
a WD last for very long and the four WD drives I had in operation all
failed within the last year.
I have used the "drive farming" method myself and the drives always
fail quickly. They are not normal drives. They are typically "green"
drives which mean they aren't meant to spin continuously and be in
constant use. They are meant to spin up, write data, spin down. Every
drive I've pulled out of an enclosure and used full time has failed
with all the dramatic flair of a drag queen on the strip.
The standard desktop drives I've used have worked great, and in that
list I count Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi before they sold out to the
horrible beast that is WD.
On 2015-06-02 15:46, Eric Cope wrote:
not at all.
The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a
firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After
the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully,
however it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing.
There was data that couldn't be recovered without replacing the
heads. They offered to take it into their clean room for $750,
replace the heads, and recover the rest of the data. I didn't need
it (it was my brother's data and he was too cheap to pay for
recovery), so I opted not to continue the recovery process.
FYI - if you have data on Seagates, get it off:
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
[2]
Eric
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash <[email protected]>
wrote:
Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing total?
Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I never
have an answer.
On or off-list is fine. :)
-mb
On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote:
Hi everyone,
I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company,
Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data.
They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free
evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly
recommend them.
http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ [3]
Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need
recovery services, check them out.
Thanks,
Eric
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