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My Hard Drive Crashed
Campsalot:
Really I would suggest a hard drive in a aluminum enclosure with the fan. The reason I did not suggest this to Gombo was because of the cost. Then mount and unmount the drive when you wanted to back up.
I have never had an issue with a Western Digital drive. However, I never had an external drive like I suggested to Gombo. The ones I use are as I described above which I back up over a network to a Linux box. Probally a lot more than Gomboman needs.
I would not go the DVD route becasue of the number of DVD's it would take. Also, that makes backing data up a real pain. :(
svspa:
Agreed campsalot, DVDs are somewhat of a pain but relatively cheap and safe. At least the dual layer DVD's will give you about 9gb of storage per disk. I think gomboman said he has an 80gb primary drive so that's not too much data.
I have used more than 10 western digital drives in various systems I have built over the years and also never had a failure.
But if anyone out there is really looking for the solution you may want to look at a mirrored raid array. A mirrored raid array is constantly keeping two sets of disk drives in sync, so if any one drive fails the backup disks take over while you swap out the bad drive. Buffalo technology makes a pretty popular version in their Terastation products (www.buffalotech.com).
I just saw that western digital has also come out with a dual drive 1 terabyte mybook, that supports either mirrored raid or striped raid.
I have been looking at options for my media center pc. I need upwards of a terabyte of storage for my home videos, music and photos. Not sure yet whether I want to go with something like the terastation or just a couple of big external drives.
Good luck gomboman, hope you find the solution that works for you.
Steve
badval:
You can "roll your own" external hard drive for less money than buying one off the shelf. In addition to saving money, you can get some very useful backup software & have the size & specs you truly want - not just what's available at the moment.
For a solid backup dirve on a budget:
This enclosure + This drive = 250GB external drive for ~ $115 with some good software.
Compare to this one from BestBuy that costs $25 more, has no fan, and no good backup software.
I have a fanless, mostly plastic external enclosure on my other drive. It does what it should, but its very hot. I'd recommend going with aluminum and a small fan in the enclosure. You'll pay a little more, but you could also extend the drive's useful life a few years.
svspa:
good point badval, but the 250gb mybook is selling for $83 at Dell's site and for $80 at my local office depot (with $70 rebate).
Steve
Gomboman:
--- Quote ---You can "roll your own" external hard drive for less money than buying one off the shelf. In addition to saving money, you can get some very useful backup software & have the size & specs you truly want - not just what's available at the moment.
For a solid backup dirve on a budget:
This enclosure + This drive = 250GB external drive for ~ $115 with some good software.
Compare to this one from BestBuy that costs $25 more, has no fan, and no good backup software.
I have a fanless, mostly plastic external enclosure on my other drive. It does what it should, but its very hot. I'd recommend going with aluminum and a small fan in the enclosure. You'll pay a little more, but you could also extend the drive's useful life a few years.
--- End quote ---
OK, I never thought about rolling my own. You're saying you can buy an internal drive and install it in an external case? Is there an advantage to having an external drive versus having a slave drive installed within the case for backups?
The drive that failed was a Western Digital Caviar 80GB IEDE drive. My six year old daughter was playing an old Windows 95 game and turned the power off without shutting down properly. When I went to reboot the drive was toast.
Would a mac have crashed like this? I can't believe my wife still wants to spend 1K to restore the data. She never once looked at the digital photos that we lost......
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