AAARRRGGHHH lost my hard drive and my Ipod

[jamie2112]

I am trippin.I just got back my HD from a HD recovery specialist.Turns out my Western Digital piece o carp died and ALL my syuff was on it.I called WD and they can't help me.Dont buy A western digital product.I am now freaking lost here...........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

 

[j_garcia]

WTH? Your PC drive or an external?

 

[Wafflesomd]

Man that sucks. I had both my WD fry (literally) not to long ago. I'll never buy another thing from them.

I'm currently in love with my Seagate drives. They run much cooler as well.

 

[j_garcia]

Seagates are my choice as well.

 

[jamie2112]

Yes I am in agreement NO ONE should buy from wd at all......it was an external John.ALL my music in Lossless format ....gone.....I am gutted

 

[j_garcia]

Didn't you just get another Seagate 1TB? Should have backed it up to there!! Yeah, I have my Seagate with no backup of it, so if it dies, I will be screwed too, though I have some of it on my desktop system at home. I need to get another one to back both of those up....

 

[MidnightSensi]

I had a SeaGate terabyte drive go out on my recently, so, none of them are perfect. Really all you can do is have redundant backups of music. Drives all eventually fail, especially portable ones. I have a Drobo, which is basically just a RAID setup for people who don't want to mess with RAID. If a drive fails in it, I can toss in another one and it will propigate. Then I also backup to plugin USB drives labled by genre. I have nearly 3 terabytes of music now...granted a lot of the stuff is in both lossless and mp3, so you can divide some of that out, but it totals up big.

Basically, get a system of storing your tunes. If you don't, they'll will get lost!

 

[lsiberian]

That stinks? Are we sure it's the drive and not the enclosure?

 

[WmAx]

I don't know why people continue to not have redundant drives to keep all important data mirrored. I have kept mirrored backup systems since my first computer. I don't consider mirrored drives to be optional. It is a requirement.

-Chris

 

[itschris]

Jamie, there's a service (I looked but can't find the name of the place, but I'm sure others exist) where you can send your trashed hard drive and they can literally pull the info off the platters. I'm not sure of the cost, but it may be worth looking into. Often times, unless the drive actually plowed into the platters, the data is still there.

I'd do some research on data recovery or something like that. It's probably be worth it to you coinsidering your catalog.

 

[jamie2112]

Jamie, there's a service (I looked but can't find the name of the place, but I'm sure others exist) where you can send your trashed hard drive and they can literally pull the info off the platters. I'm not sure of the cost, but it may be worth looking into. Often times, unless the drive actually plowed into the platters, the data is still there.

I'd do some research on data recovery or something like that. It's probably be worth it to you coinsidering your catalog.

Thanks Chris, its like $1000 bucks to have my stuff back...........oh well

 

[jeffsg4mac]

I don't know why people continue to not have redundant drives to keep all important data mirrored. I have kept mirrored backup systems since my first computer. I don't consider mirrored drives to be optional. It is a requirement.

-Chris

Amen brother. I got burnt once and lost a lot of good photo's. Never again! I back up with time machine on a regular basis.

 

[lsiberian]

I don't know why people continue to not have redundant drives to keep all important data mirrored. I have kept mirrored backup systems since my first computer. I don't consider mirrored drives to be optional. It is a requirement.

-Chris

If you mean every drive mirrored. I think it's a highly unecessary cost plus inefficient in multiple drive arrays.

If you mean mirrored using a parity bit then I'd be all for it.
You can go to several levels using a parity bit setup depending on the security you want. I see it as a much better way to backup data.

For example say you have 4 hard drives. You can back them up with a single drive.

Still for a portable drive this isn't a simple thing to implement. Remember a portable drive is simply a laptop drive put in an enclosure. So treat it as such.

 

[CraigV]

Wow, I’ve never had any trouble with any WD products. Seagates always failed me, that’s why I stick with WD

 

[j_garcia]

Wow, I’ve never had any trouble with any WD products. Seagates always failed me, that’s why I stick with WD

As with everything else YMMV That is not to say that Seagate is perfect either; everyone has their lemons.

 

[strube]

I am trippin.I just got back my HD from a HD recovery specialist.Turns out my Western Digital piece o carp died and ALL my syuff was on it.I called WD and they can't help me.Dont buy A western digital product.I am now freaking lost here...........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Man, that sucks Jamie. I do know someone who lost a drive, bought another one on the fleabay, and frankensteined them together to get his data back, which was honestly an amazing feat, but it is possible.

If you mean every drive mirrored. I think it's a highly unecessary cost plus inefficient in multiple drive arrays.

If you mean mirrored using a parity bit then I'd be all for it.
You can go to several levels using a parity bit setup depending on the security you want. I see it as a much better way to backup data.

I have to say, RAID0 mirroring is really easy (even a caveman could do it ), most motherboards have the features nowadays, and at the price of hard drives now, I think it is a fool-proof and not terribly expensive way to keep your data in tact because it is a real-time 1:1 redundancy. That said, you are correct about external hard drives not having that option (unless they are ESATA, of course).

Wow, I’ve never had any trouble with any WD products. Seagates always failed me, that’s why I stick with WD

I'm right there with you, Craig. I have had 4 Segates fail, 2 Hitachis, and 0 WDs. That is why there is a YMMV acronym on the internet I guess.

Of course, I always stick with internal enterprise-grade drives because they are worth the extra money and they are far more robust than the weak-sauce-grade drives they put in external devices...

 

[strube]

I have to say, RAID0 mirroring is really easy...

...oops, I definitely meant RAID1.

 

[GlocksRock]

I've had both Seagates and WD's fail on me, so far my Samsung spinpoint has been good, and I just got a 2TB Hitachi deskstar 7200 RPM drive, so I'll see how that holds up. Every drive is prone to fail at some point, this just reitterates the need to backup all your important data on a regular basis.

 

[jamie2112]

I just sent a new 160g ipod to my studio partner to load up for me.I am also getting a 360g hard drvie installed in my Mac so I can have all my stuff there and on my Seagate.......

 

[jinjuku]

I am trippin.I just got back my HD from a HD recovery specialist.Turns out my Western Digital piece o carp died and ALL my syuff was on it.I called WD and they can't help me.Dont buy A western digital product.I am now freaking lost here...........AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

WD is fine. Users who don't back up I find are very common and problematic. Been doing this for 22 years now. I have seen every make and manufacturer die on me:

Conor, Miniscribe, Micropolous, Quantum, Maxtor, Seagate, Samsung, WD, IBM/Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujistu