CRAP!!! Hard drive failure!
Nov 3, 2005 at 11:50 PM Post #16 of 30
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Originally Posted by Nomad
It is always sad to see somebody with some resources (taking a look at the gear on the profile) using Pedro's. Oh well...


yeah, I spend too much on gear though. i still have LOTS of CD's and a newly growing vinyl collection, which due to both sources being superior to the EMU get a lot more play than my downloaded stuff. In the end there wasn't that much on the drive that I can't stand to lose. The big irreplaceable highlight was a complete Beatles MFSL folder. I still have 64GB's on my SATA storage drive, plenty of music I don't listen to much
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I'll look into those programs. I suspect also that it is a boot sector problem or something, I've gotten up a few folders but can't really access the data.

Sweet, got Windows to run a scandisk on it. Halfway through now, we'll see what happens.

Patchmix still won't load up right. I hate how when one thing goes wrong everything goes. I'll deal with that later.
 
Nov 4, 2005 at 1:44 AM Post #17 of 30
Okay, for us clueless folx out here, what exactly is Pedro's? Something akin to bittorrent/Gnutella and the like?
 
Nov 4, 2005 at 2:24 AM Post #19 of 30
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Originally Posted by NightWoundsTime
Ok all you anti-piracy computer hating folks can laugh at me right now. My 200GB external drive just bit the dust. It was loaded with lossless music from Pedro's. Got what was coming to me I suppose.

I'm hoping it's something like the extrernal enclosure going bad. But that's not likely since it's pretty warm right now, and the computer locks up when I turn it on. I think the drive itself went bad. I've always been very careful when turning it off and all that, never had a problem before. Just went to turn it on today and got "this drive is not formatted". Ugh.


pfft. thats nothing I lost a 300Gb HD and a 250Gb HD loaded with Lossless music (most from Pedros
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) because of a hardware corruption due to a too high OC (overclock) last September

Oh and I fried my motherboard and CPU in the process
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Nov 4, 2005 at 3:17 AM Post #20 of 30
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Originally Posted by Mikey01
What I do is buy two hard drives and a program called "Symantic Ghost" which is on a bootable floppie. One of the hard drives is a working drive and one drive is disconected with a copy (via the "Ghost" program) of the other hard drive. Both are perminently mounted in the case. Once a month I "Ghost" a copy of the working hard drive over to the other one for safe keeping and un hook it. If the working hard drive crashes I hook up the other drive and use that and buy (or fix the old one) another drive that now becomes the back-up drive. When you back up with Symantic's Ghost, it takes about 5 to 8 min. to do. The drive is completely bootable and fully functioning and ready to go without a beat missed. The two hard drives do not have to match in size or brand. Just make sure they are large enough to hold all your other drive has on it. Overly easy to do. Oh and make sure you un-plug the back-up drive in betweem backups so it stays clear of viruses and the like.
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I wanna get that.... Google time!


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Originally Posted by Skipinder
pfft. thats nothing I lost a 300Gb HD and a 250Gb HD loaded with Lossless music (most from Pedros
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) because of a hardware corruption due to a too high OC (overclock) last September

Oh and I fried my motherboard and CPU in the process
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nice one... Thats a pretty big money los, maybe if you'd just spent the money on CDs instead of harddrives you would still have that collection.
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Nov 4, 2005 at 6:00 AM Post #21 of 30
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Originally Posted by Neko
You're a freak =P Why not upgrade to Raid level 6
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Naw, Raid 5 does all I need
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I considered using 400GB drives, for 1.6TB of storage, but that would've cost way more than I wanted to spend. I'm using the majority of the space to hold all the stuff I offloaded from my ReplayTV. I keep recording shows, but I never seem to have the time to watch them
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I've got almost 300 hours on my drive, plus almost 200 hours still on the ReplayTV... I need to win the lottery so I can take a couple of months off and watch it all
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Edit: I originally started thinking about putting this together for my music, but my entire CD collection takes up less than 100GB (Apple Lossless)... I think it's time to buy more CDs.
 
Nov 4, 2005 at 9:58 AM Post #22 of 30
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Originally Posted by skudmunky
nice one... Thats a pretty big money los, maybe if you'd just spent the money on CDs instead of harddrives you would still have that collection.
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but, downloading the music is half the fun
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Nov 7, 2005 at 4:20 AM Post #26 of 30
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loveheadphones wrote:
...just got a 160 gb seagate from bestbuy for $40


Okay I'll bite.. How the heck did you manage that one? Warranty return on an older HDD or something? Employee discount? What?
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Nov 7, 2005 at 9:33 AM Post #28 of 30
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Originally Posted by stevesurf
Great news...your experience scared me to increase the number of backup HDDs from three to four (here's what I am planning on getting):
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80GB 2.5" HDD


Why a 2.5"? Unless you want it to be portable, it would be much cheaper to get a 3.5" harddrive.
 
Nov 7, 2005 at 8:50 PM Post #30 of 30
I use a Linksys NSLU2. You can attach two USB2.0 Harddrives and set them up to raid one when using a hacked firmware :) Without the hacked firmware you can setup backup jobs and the unit simply copies drive a -> b at a specific time.

It is quite useful if you have multiple computers and want to be able to play/watch your music/photos/movies from all of them.
 
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