Guest pod Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 Data recovery is fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ryan2772 Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 NERD ALERT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted April 24 Report Share Posted April 24 It's expensive. Not for the faint of heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Civs Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 i agree. back up the data. Lacie makes some nice drives for backing up purposes. 600GB runs for around $450 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Not even. Hard drives will fail. Realistically you should look into near-line backups, and offsite storage of copies. There's many schools of thought on what to use, from tape streamers, to multiple hard drives, to DVDs, and Internet storage. The drive that failed on me was a LaCie as a matter of fact. Somehow, the unit physically malfunctioned. Had to send it to Drive Savers, a data recovery firm. The bill was no fun. Like major medical procedure no fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ILLMATIC Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Or you can pick up one of these bad boys! LaCie Bigger Disk Extreme 2 Terabyte with Triple Interface I get to see these kinds of toys at work all day. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 The nice thing about those is they use a cluster of drives to do the 2 TB total, so it's not like you're totally fucked if there's a problem, unless it goes to multiple drives. I wonder if you could do some sort of RAID internal on that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trancepriest Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 The nice thing about those is they use a cluster of drives to do the 2 TB total, so it's not like you're totally fucked if there's a problem, unless it goes to multiple drives. I wonder if you could do some sort of RAID internal on that? You can't... and if there is a problem on one drive you are fucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Scratch that then. Though in theory couldn't you crack the case and pull out the remaining functional ones? This is just a fancy SATA-USB/Firewire adapter casing, right? Big storage is fun, but redundancy is necessary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trancepriest Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Scratch that then. Though in theory couldn't you crack the case and pull out the remaining functional ones? This is just a fancy SATA-USB/Firewire adapter casing, right? Big storage is fun, but redundancy is necessary. I have the Lacie 500GB... I'm thinking its 2 IDE drives with a RAID 0 controller. SO if one drive dies... you can open the housing and recover the physical drive... but not the data because of the striping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Civs Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 Not even. Hard drives will fail. Realistically you should look into near-line backups, and offsite storage of copies. There's many schools of thought on what to use, from tape streamers, to multiple hard drives, to DVDs, and Internet storage. The drive that failed on me was a LaCie as a matter of fact. Somehow, the unit physically malfunctioned. Had to send it to Drive Savers, a data recovery firm. The bill was no fun. Like major medical procedure no fun. i agree that hdds will fail, however if you use the LAcie for backing your PC drives, would this not be enough?? are you saying that both your PC drives and the Lacie will fail at the same time thus not enough and have to do additioanl back up?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest pod Posted April 25 Report Share Posted April 25 The chance is there, yes. Also, external factors come into play. Fires, the weather, civil unrest. Offsite storage on resilient media is really the only way to go for mission-critical data. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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