AAARRRGGHHH lost my hard drive and my Ipod

[jamie2112]

WD is fine. Users who don't back up I find are very common and problematic.

yeah I won't be making that mistake again..........

 

[Rickster71]

I feel your pain Jamie. It happens to all of us sooner or later.

FWIW: I've made a switch to solid state drives, in hopes their MTBF is longer.
Even with MP3 players; I didn't pick any that have disks.
Sorry...I know this doesn't help you now.

 

[strube]

I feel your pain Jamie. It happens to all of us sooner or later.

FWIW: I've made a switch to solid state drives, in hopes their MTBF is longer.
Even with MP3 players; I didn't pick any that have disks.
Sorry...I know this doesn't help you now.

Soudns delicious, but still spendy. I will be doing similar when prices go down a bit. You still can't beat a hard drive for cheap capacity.

The better SSDs claim 1.2-1.5 million hours MTBF, which is about the same as the higher-end hard drives, but I tend to think that if you have it set up properly and don't write to it frequently (such as just using it as an OS drive with no paging file), the lack of mechanics to fail should mean it will last longer...

 

[MidnightSensi]

If your not into messing with RAID but want it, get a Drobo: http://www.drobo.com/

Firewire and USB2. Toss some drives in there and your good to go.

 

[pzaur]

As my Dad, who works for a large data company in customer support, always says, "There are 2 types of drives. Those that have failed and those that are going to fail."

Don't forget that Western Digital and Seagate are the same company. Whether or not the drives come from the same factory is for someone who knows to tell. I don't know.

-pat

 

[j_garcia]

As my Dad, who works for a large data company in customer support, always says, "There are 2 types of drives. Those that have failed and those that are going to fail."

Don't forget that Western Digital and Seagate are the same company. Whether or not the drives come from the same factory is for someone who knows to tell. I don't know.

-pat

Just like Marantz, Denon and McIntosh are the same company; they don't share manufacturing AFAIK. WD and Seagate are both here in my area and they aren't in shared locations, though I don't know if they still do manufacturing here; probably not.

 

[jamie2112]

I am having a 500gig drive installed in my Macbook Friday so I can have 2 places my music is stored and maybe even another hd...............

 

[Warpdrv]

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.

I have been keeping my eye on the Drobo products, I was turned off that they didn't just have an eithernet connection built in from the get go...

I see now they have the Drobo share for an added $199.

That unit is serisouly sweet...

I have a D-Link 323, and it works great, but not enough storage.

That DROBO Pro looks sweet !!!! Am I reading that right, it has ethernet built in....? guess not... its iSCSI, not a NAS device... That is what I need..

 

[Nemo128]

WD and Seagate are not at all the same company. Did someone mean Seagate and Maxtor? Cuz that's true, Seagate bought Maxtor years ago.

Also, another option is unRAID. Google it.