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zodierocket(at)hsfx.ca
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 Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2007 8:22 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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Just to let a few of you know, recently I have suffered a hard drive
failure in my server, this is causing me a lot of hardship in posting some
replies and retrieving information. I hope to be fully recovered by next
week. So if your waiting for a letter from me please be patient, if you do
not hear from me by weeks end then please re-send your letter. Presently I
am bound to my workshops laptop and blackberry for E-Mails.
Mark Townsend
Can-Zac Aviation
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naumuk(at)alltel.net
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 6:43 am Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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Mark-
Again?! From experience, my sympaties.
do not archive
Bill Naumuk
HDS Fuse/Corvair
Townville, Pa
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zodierocket(at)hsfx.ca
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 7:48 am Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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I have 7 computers hooked up to my server, I have burnt through a Seagate,
W.D. and Maxtor. Last time I swore I would install a RAID system but the
cost was too much. SO my pooched Hard drive is sitting in the freezer now
and I hope to be able to transfer over most if not all the information
before it dies for good.
Mark
Do not archive
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naumuk(at)alltel.net
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:37 am Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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Mark-
There are companies that can recover all your information. Don't know
about Canadian tax law, but it'll probably make for a sizeable deduction.
I've been through all three of the brands you mention, too. I don't
think it's so much a matter of the quality of the hard drive, but the
potency of the virus you picked up. I had a Maxtor primary with a WD backup
and both got totalled a couple of years back by the Microsoft Virus. It
attacked the lowest levels of your OS.
FWIW, I'm particular to Maxtor, not so much for the hardware but the Max
Blast software.
do not archive
Bill Naumuk
HDS Fuse/Corvair
Townville, Pa
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cndmovn(at)gmail.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:24 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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I have had experience on both fronts:
1) I had a catastrophic crash of a hard disk that had 5 years of digital photos on it that were not backed up.....Stupid me had backed a laptop's data on the removable backup drive overtop of the main system backup to play with Linux when the crash on the main system occurred. I took my drive to a data-forensic company here in Toronto. After 2 week, a complete drive rebuild in a clean room and hours of data recovery tries, I got nothing! Fortunately, I also got a bill of $0 since they don't charge if they cant get any data.
2) Since then I have been a religious backer-upper. On our household network I started with an Xmeta NAS drive that everyone in the house backed up to. I recently upgraded to a DROBO system ( www.drobo.com) and have been extremely happy. In a nutshell, the system can hold up to 2 TB of data in mirror. If a drive fails, the system lets you know, and you can hotswap the failed drive without turning anything off and the system will automatically re-mirror itself. Very nice!
With 500 GB drives running under $200 there is not excuse not to run a full time backup system.
I know the frustration Mark. Been there, done that!
On 10/21/07, Bill Naumuk <naumuk(at)alltel.net (naumuk(at)alltel.net)> wrote:[quote] --> Zenith-List message posted by: "Bill Naumuk" <naumuk(at)alltel.net (naumuk(at)alltel.net)>
Mark-
There are companies that can recover all your information. Don't know
about Canadian tax law, but it'll probably make for a sizeable deduction.
I've been through all three of the brands you mention, too. I don't
think it's so much a matter of the quality of the hard drive, but the
potency of the virus you picked up. I had a Maxtor primary with a WD backup
and both got totalled a couple of years back by the Microsoft Virus. It
attacked the lowest levels of your OS.
FWIW, I'm particular to Maxtor, not so much for the hardware but the Max
Blast software.
do not archive
Bill Naumuk
HDS Fuse/Corvair
Townville, Pa
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d.goddard(at)ns.sympatico
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 12:56 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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Backing up disks the size of the ones now used in PC's is a rather large project. It might be easier to obtain one of the readily available cheap RAID controllers and a second hard drive of the same capacity. You can have full and real time redundancy. Better than backups with less effort.
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craig(at)craigandjean.com
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2007 1:36 pm Post subject: Hard Drive Failure |
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Also Microsoft Home Server is now out. Although dedicated servers running MHS like HPs are not out yet you can buy just the software and install it on a regular PC. Like the Drobo it does pseudo-RAID and ensures that your data is redundantly spread across multiple drives. The advantage of MHS over the Drobo or an external NAS box is that it runs on generic hardware. If your proprietary hardware dies you loose access to all your redundant drives (this happened to at least one Buffalo customer I know of).
do not archive
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