Drive Reurrection

[The Dong]

Niall Munnelly wrote:
> I'm finally retrieving nearly 120GB of MP3s I encoded a few

-Message forwarded to RIAA-  (fear them now!!!)

I've had two hard drives fail, one last week and one two weeks ago.
The one in my computer (320Gb Seagate made in Thailand) was only 3 
months old, already have a replacement in. The other was a rather old 
32Gb thing in my sons machine.

Both exhibited very obvious slowing down of reads and writes over a 
course of days (and months in my sons one). Eventually, large chunks of 
the new (seagate) drive became unreadable with masses of bad sectors. I 
managed to rescue most of the important things before it got really bad, 
but lost about 100Gb of this and that. It's like trying to recover data 
from a badly scratched CD covered with chocolate sauce. On my sons 
computer, it was fortunately a disk used solely as the OS partition that 
failed. He has three disks with different data on each. Better than my 
set up in this case...

You know how often you tell your friends, colleagues or kids to do 
things and they gawp at you like a fool? (like back up vital data) well 
my son still doesn't do it, even after that lucky escape (he has lots of 
music, no not pirated music, his own bands recent scribblings) All 
that's needed is to compile the songs into CWB (cakewalk bundle files) 
and fire them off onto his little used CD burner, but no..

Must we really buy two hard drives these days to assure our data on 
cheaply manufactured drives? I can only recall one other make of drive 
failing on me so badly before (old IBMs) so bad in fact, that I gave up 
sending the broken ones back because it was too much of a hassle.

Fingers crossed..