> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 08:45:44 +0100 "Aley Keprt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > You shouldn't rely on "disk error = all data lost". > > I had a disk error, and I lost only one sector in one logical drive. > > It depends on what kind of disk error you encounter. > > Disk error != disk crash. > > > As I wrote, if whole disk goes away at once, it can be repaired without data > > loss, since it's only in electronics. > > Please, Aley! > > How many enterprise disk systems have you encountered? How many hard drives > have you handled from SOL to EOL? > > A disk crash does not always depend on electronics. You may have a failure in > one arm which tears the entire disk apart, oil spills from the spindle, failure > of the spindle and even failure of the file system (at least two times > this has happened with NT). > > And even if you send it away for a data extraction - do you have any idea > what this costs?
Depends on who does it... > > -Frode >
