had a SCSI hard drive in a server fail completely. so completely, in
fact, that the data recovery place I sent it to said that you could
*see through* the drive platters, as the drive heads crashed so badly
they scraped the surface of the platters right off.
fortunately, they pitied my plight and only charged me $100.
ever since then, I'm all about RAID-1 and higher. I have a
Firewire RAID-1 box sitting on my desk, which gives me peace of mind
for $425 (not including the drives contained within).
http://www.miglia.com/products/storage/mediabank_hsr/index.html
RAID is expensive, but worth it, in my opinion.
cheers,
- Jared
--
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On Aug 11, 2005, at 11:24 AM, Frank Carver wrote:
>
> Yesterday afternoon, the 250GB Maxtor external hard drive that I have
> been using for all my video work stopped responding to requests from
> the PC. The best I can prompt it to give me is "this drive is not
> formatted - format it now?"
>
> This was pretty unexpected - the drive is relatively new and had been
> working well for months. Unfortunately, I had become lazy about
> backups. My original plan was to use this drive solely as temporary
> working storage for material loaded from tape while editing - if
> anything went wrong I'd still have the master tapes.
>
> The I got a little flash camera, which made it so tempting to just
> upload to the hard drive and move on to grabbing more footage.
> Somehow, this hard drive _became_ the master version.
>
> So now, I've lost several months of irreplaceable raw footage, all
> because I neglected to back up my stuff to multiple, more permanent,
> places.
>
> If you use a non-tape camera, don't get caught like me. Back up
> everything NOW, and back up all your raw footage to multiple,
> permanent, locations WHILE ITS STILL IN THE CAMERA. Remember. Hard
> drives fail when you least want them to.
>
> As an aside, I was also using this drive for downloaded videoblogs and
> podcasts, so I will probably be re-fetching a whole bunch of
> everyone's stuff in the near future. Apologies in advance for eating
> your bandwidth twice.
>
> PS. Anyone know any cheap and effective data recovery services?
>
> Sigh.
>
> --
> Frank Carver http://www.makevideo.org.uk
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