Suffice to say this is NOT what they are supposed to look like. This serves as a warning for everyone in the Universe: back up your data! You do not want to know how many cat-heads are on that thing.
Suffice to say this is NOT what they are supposed to look like. This serves as a warning for everyone in the Universe: back up your data! You do not want to know how many cat-heads are on that thing.
Yikes!
Hope you didn’t lose too much.
what happened to it??
It was old and stopped working. Apparently the little arms that swing in and out, reading from the platters, wore out. As a result, no data was accessible. The good thing is that the platters were completely fine, and I got a 100% recovery of all data. But I had to pay dearly for that, as men in white suits and a clean room had to do it for me.
Now I have a RAID system.
The actual drive in the photo is not the real failure drive, but another doorstop I had lying around (also too old and wore out, but never a crisis – I replaced it well in good time) and thought I would maul for a good picture.
Happy to hear you didn’t lose any data. So howz the raid system working out for you?
The RAID works great. It cost about half to set up as I paid in fees getting the old drive back! I bought a four-bay box and loaded it with 1.5Tb drives, so I think I’m set for the forseeable future…
I recommend it to EVERYONE if you work with this much data. The only step up from here is a dedicated server (like an X-Serve), which I’m sure would be necessary if you were editing features or television. Who knows what the PC equivalent is, but there’s something out there for those.