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OT- Please remember to make backups..My Experience........

OT- Please remember to make backups..My Experience........

28 Mar 2006, 17:49
Hello friends...

I know this is off topic, but please remember to make backups of your songs on your PC hard drives.

I almost lost two years worth of work, and over 2000 family pictures and videos this weekend. My son's Hard drive crashed this weekend after getting the dreaded "CLIK OF DEATH".

So that triggered me to make a backup of my stuff. Well, I made over 5 complete DVD backups of all my stuff. Just when I had finished, I decided to do a full defragment of my hard disk. Well, to make the story short, my hard disk died in the middle of the defrag. It was a Western Digital 120 gig hard disk.
I could not beleive it! But I was very thankful to God that I had done the Backup just before my HD died. Amazing thing, is that both disks that died that day were Western Digitals.
Fortunately, I still had my main disk, a 120 gig Maxtor still working.

Its weird cause I trusted the WD more than the Maxtor, thats why I had it as the Storage disk, and Music DISK. Oh boy, I am so happy that I was able to save all those precious memories.

So please, if you haven't done so, do a backup today of all your precious stuff. Pictures, songs, what ever is dear to you. Once the disk dies, its all over.

Warmest regards,

Musikman

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6
Warmest regards,

Musikman

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6

Re: OT- Please remember to make backups..My Experience......

28 Mar 2006, 17:59
M4C,

I moved this one to the 'Free Zone', but this is a very good point that everyone can benefit from. There is a saying in the IT business about backing up your stuff:

"There are two types of data. . . . . . the data you've lost and the data you haven't lost YET"

Bassman
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29 Mar 2006, 07:21
At the moment I just trust Maxtor Harddisks to keep my stuff safe (but I still do Backups on DVD).
I have a Secondary internal Maxtor for my Desktop PC and an External USB/FW BOX (with Maxtor) for my Laptop.
I had bad experiences with other ones...

Yam TX816, SY77, TG77; Kurz PC88; Rol Jv2080, VS1680, Fantom X6; Event 20/20; and my old MPC2000XL returned as midi MASTER
Yam TX816, SY77, TG77; Kurz PC88; Rol Jv2080, VS1680, Fantom X6; Event 20/20; and my old MPC2000XL returned as midi MASTER

Re: OT- Please remember to make backups..My Experience......

29 Mar 2006, 09:38
Although i back up religiously
i feel these days with hdd capacity getting larger all the time
im starting to look at setting up a Raid with mirroring
this requires 2 hdds in stead of one and is at least 100%
unless your unlucky that both drives fail at the same time.


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Re: OT- Please remember to make backups..My Experience......

30 Mar 2006, 11:50
Thats the thing though, with Hard Drives I no longer feel so confident unless I have everything solidly burned to a disk or dvd. I no longer trust them man. I dont know if I have become traumatized by the whole ordeal, but I guess it has to do with all the moving parts on the drive.

I really wish someday the solid state drives get big enough.. Imagine that, no moving parts,. now that would be cool.

Warmest regards,

Musikman

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6
Warmest regards,

Musikman

"Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near." Isaiah 55:6

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