Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive, sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other brands. Laptop users remember! TURN ON THE COMPUTER BEFORE CONNECTING THE DRIVE TURN ON THE DRIVE (if that's an option) BEFORE CONNECTING CONNECT AND WAIT FOR MOUNTING before launching FCP or whatever. EJECT/DISMOUNT the drive before disconnecting the most important one DISCONNECT before shutting down, sleeping. And remember FW400 connectors are super super fragile despite their appearance. Plug and unplug carefully. Pull straight out/push straight in. This goes for the little camera ports too. Most drive failures come from repeated live disconnects and shutdowns. The next culprit in line is bent/tweaked firewire ports, then burned out firewire ports. (of course there are variations other will swear by, but the dismount before disconnect or shutdown/sleep is absolutely crucial to getting any longevity out of the drive at all). Brook p.s. the best advice: switch to eSATA as soon as you can. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
Thanks Brook and I must say, I rarely did any of the precautions you posted. --- Brook Hinton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is no such thing as a truly reliable external firewire drive, sadly. Though I've had better luck with LaCies then with some other brands. Laptop users remember! TURN ON THE COMPUTER BEFORE CONNECTING THE DRIVE TURN ON THE DRIVE (if that's an option) BEFORE CONNECTING CONNECT AND WAIT FOR MOUNTING before launching FCP or whatever. EJECT/DISMOUNT the drive before disconnecting the most important one DISCONNECT before shutting down, sleeping. And remember FW400 connectors are super super fragile despite their appearance. Plug and unplug carefully. Pull straight out/push straight in. This goes for the little camera ports too. Most drive failures come from repeated live disconnects and shutdowns. The next culprit in line is bent/tweaked firewire ports, then burned out firewire ports. (of course there are variations other will swear by, but the dismount before disconnect or shutdown/sleep is absolutely crucial to getting any longevity out of the drive at all). Brook p.s. the best advice: switch to eSATA as soon as you can. ___ Brook Hinton film/video/audio art www.brookhinton.com studio vlog/blog: www.brookhinton.com/temporalab Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, John Coffey wrote: Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/ sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links * To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ * Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional * To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/join (Yahoo! ID required) * To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
i've had bad luck with western digital, consistently, personally. we also had trouble with them at widehive records a few years ago (like 3 times in a row) and stopped using anything but LaCie. Haven't seen g-raid before...will consider...but i've had good luck with lacies i guess (knock on metal) lisa I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, John Coffey wrote: Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How Tos by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/ sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Lisa Rein http://onlisareinsradar.com http://www.lisarein.com
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
You do have to keep in mind that hard drives, at least ones most people can afford at the moment, have lots of moving parts. Those moving parts are all... well.. moving whenever you access data off those drives. No matter what manufacturer you get your drives from it isn't a matter of if the drive will fail, but when. Anyone that tells you differently is flat out lying. Solid state memory is changing all of that, but it is still very very expensive and doesn't come in capacities that DV require. That being said I've been very happy with my WD drives. On Nov 13, 2007 12:28 PM, Lisa Rein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i've had bad luck with western digital, consistently, personally. we also had trouble with them at widehive records a few years ago (like 3 times in a row) and stopped using anything but LaCie. Haven't seen g-raid before...will consider...but i've had good luck with lacies i guess (knock on metal) lisa I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How To's by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, John Coffey wrote: Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How To's by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv.com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/ sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Lisa Rein http://onlisareinsradar.com http://www.lisarein.com Yahoo! Groups Links -- Scott McNulty I blog: http://blog.blankbaby.com http://www.forkyou.tv http://www.tuaw.com
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If you had bought Seagate drives I could have gotten you help. Sorry. Robert Scoble _ From: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lisa Rein Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:28 AM To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives? i've had bad luck with western digital, consistently, personally. we also had trouble with them at widehive records a few years ago (like 3 times in a row) and stopped using anything but LaCie. Haven't seen g-raid before...will consider...but i've had good luck with lacies i guess (knock on metal) lisa I've made DVD and HDV Tape back ups as well cause that VP of Marketing's words keep ringing in my head. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How To's by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv http://frenchmaidtv.com .com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchma http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes idtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet. http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 9:16 AM, John Coffey wrote: Thanks Tim, time to back up many hours of HD Eye TV content off my Lacie ASAP --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:tim%40frenchmaidtv.com com [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:tim%40frenchmaidtv.com com wrote: I've lost MANY Lacie drives and when I walked up to the VP of Marketing for Lacie at Macworld and told him his answer was, It's only a matter of time until one of our drives fails. I then walked over to the G-Tech booth and I have been very happy with the G-Raid products ever since. I have 25 G-Tech drives. The other day I thought one of them had gone down on me but then I noticed it wasn't plugged in to the AC outlet. Tim Tim Street Creator/Executive Producer French Maid TV The Viral Video of How To's by French Maids http://frenchmaidtv http://frenchmaidtv.com .com Subscribe for FREE at: http://www.frenchma http://www.frenchmaidtv.com/itunes idtv.com/itunes MY BLOG: http://1timstreet. http://1timstreet.blogspot.com/ blogspot.com/ On Nov 13, 2007, at 7:22 AM, John Coffey wrote: I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs com/r/hs [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links mailto:videoblogging- mailto:videoblogging-fullfeatured%40yahoogroups.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com __ Be a better sports nut! Let your teams follow you with Yahoo Mobile. Try it now.http://mobile. now.http://mobile.yahoo.com/ yahoo.com/ sports;_ylt=At9_qDKvtAbMuh1G1SQtBI7ntAcJ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] Yahoo! Groups Links Lisa Rein http://onlisareinsr http://onlisareinsradar.com adar.com http://www.lisarein http://www.lisarein.com .com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
Re: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives?
As you have seen in the replies, it's pretty much a crap shoot regarding hard drives. At work we handle hundreds, if not thousands, of hard drives regularly. The ones that fail most of the time are LaCie and Seagate even though we buy primarily Western Digital internal and Maxtor externals. We have relatively few problems with Western Digital and Maxtor. Hard drives have moving parts that are bound to fail. The best choice for storing large amounts of data is some sort of RAID configuration where if one or two disks go, the data can be reconstructed. Even then you still have to back the data up if it's valuable. The funny thing about media is that pretty much everything out there WILL fail. CDs and DVDs have shelf lives (not sure what it is though). And hard drives crash. Companies still use tapes for backup and they are problematic as well. All that to say: Use a RAID and backup often. . . . Kenya Allmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kenya.allmond.us http://kenya.allmond.us/vlog VM/F 202-478-0490 To thine own self be true. - Original Message From: John Coffey [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: videoblogging@yahoogroups.com Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 10:22:56 AM Subject: [videoblogging] bad Western Digital Hardrives? I think I read either here or on Twitter that Bill Streeter had 3 harddrives go bad last week. I'm starting to find that my Western Digital WD HD's don't show up on the desktop. And one of them had smoke coming out like a toaster. Any other thoughts on these always on sale at Best Buy clunkers. I'm gonna spend the $ on reliable LaCie. John Jimmy CraicHead TVVideo Podcast about Sailing, Travel, Craic and Cocktails www.jchtv.com Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs Yahoo! Groups Links Be a better pen pal. Text or chat with friends inside Yahoo! Mail. See how. http://overview.mail.yahoo.com/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
