1TB USB HDD hard drive crashed

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My 2TB started clicking as well. Had to buy a new one and start copying stuff :(
 
Take it to CSSI in Midrand, I've used them to recover a few drives in the past, very good. Depending on how much data they need to retrieve will determine how much it will cost. Send it in and they will give you a no obligation quote.
 
isie said:
A moment of silence please :cry:

So my 1 TB HDD crashed yesterday - Clicking like crazy, windows picks up the drive but cant acess it, so goodbye about 500Gb worth of Tv series :cry:

any ideas how i can salvage the stuff on it?
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Ask someone else to donate the series? Cheaper and possibly cheaper then going through a data retrieval specialist.
 
Had a 2TB external "fail" on me. It is now a 2TB internal :D
 
If the data on there is worth the cost of recovery then perhaps that's something you want to investigate. We have a fixed pricing structure based on the drive capacity, so you know upfront what to expect in terms of price.

However, if it was mainly TV series etc I would imagine that it you'd rather just get a new drive and start sourcing your collection again.
 
I had a 2TB die on me. Fortunately was only "stuff that can be sourced again". Those buggers at CSSI wouldn't cover it under warranty because I'd used it as an internal drive (in my microserver) instead of in the casing I bought it in....
 
Pho3nix said:
Ask someone else to donate the series? Cheaper and possibly cheaper then going through a data retrieval specialist.
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Not worth spending any cash on recovery
yep already on that most of the people who get stuff from me already poped their HDD's on my desk so i can start geting it all back.

just was hoping i could some how to at least view the files so i know what i need to get.

Heard about stiking it in the freezer figured its fuped might as well try that.
 
isie said:
Not worth spending any cash on recovery
yep already on that most of the people who get stuff from me already poped their HDD's on my desk so i can start geting it all back.

just was hoping i could some how to at least view the files so i know what i need to get.

Heard about stiking it in the freezer figured its fuped might as well try that.
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Freezer thing is a bit of a hit and miss. Worked on 1 HDD but didn't work on 2 others. Try it since your going to scrap the drive anyway.
 
I feel your pain, I had a 2TB drive fail on me, and half my series collection went poof... Very hard to get it back as no one I know had most of those series, especially every episode or almost every episode. (There was at least 60 series just on that drive)
 
I sympathise. And I hope everyone learns the lesson for the 89677384th time.

I didn't think there was anyone with more than a year's experience of computers who doesn't have at least three copies of everything.

Here are a few things I've learned and pass on freely:
* HDDs fail.
* Backup HDDs fail.
* Storage is cheap.
 
I had a drive that fell just 3 feet.....on a soft carpet
EOL
 
New failsafe RAID system : where all your buddies have a copy of the same show(s)...

If somebody (in the buddy circle) have a failed HDD, he/she can copy it back off from any of the buddies in the circle :D

No need for expensive data recovery etc. (Unless you're doff enough to put your wedding pictures on the failed HDD... :o :D)

I call it CircleRAID :D:D
 
The_Librarian said:
New failsafe RAID system : where all your buddies have a copy of the same show(s)...

If somebody (in the buddy circle) have a failed HDD, he/she can copy it back off from any of the buddies in the circle :D

No need for expensive data recovery etc. (Unless you're doff enough to put your wedding pictures on the failed HDD... :o :D)

I call it CircleRAID :D:D
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Can we have form on which they first have to indicate their taste in movies and series?
If i have to watch friends again.....
 
Well that's pretty much why I've never bothered backing up series/movies which are replaceable (granted with some effort). My 2tb was my movies drive and I could have replaced that and more from just one source. Unfortunately I just can't bring myself to pay more for a drive of the same capacity I bought years ago so it hasn't been replaced yet and I'm getting by with my other drives, yet still itching to expand storage in my "hub" being my hp ms.
As for backup/redundancy I have all my pictures since 2004ish, and my music collection stored in 2 places but it would be nice to have an offsite backup of sorts (both for adding a 3rd backup, which means you have it in 2 places when one of them fails and in case my house burns down or something). Wedding pictures are on the photographers hard drive/dvd, 3 copies of the dvd's he gave us, my phone, my wifes pc, my work pc, facebook, etc :D

Anything more important than that is in dropbox so it's somewhere on their infrastructure but if they suddenly cease to exist I have it synced on home pc, laptop and work pc so that's 4 places (counting whatever they has as 1).

Storage may be cheap but whoever you are you have to evaluate the cost and risk and at the end of the day choose between paying double (or triple) or have double (or triple) the amount of storage, whether it's 1tb or 20tb.
 
Arthur said:
I sympathise. And I hope everyone learns the lesson for the 89677384th time.

I didn't think there was anyone with more than a year's experience of computers who doesn't have at least three copies of everything.

Here are a few things I've learned and pass on freely:
* HDDs fail.
* Backup HDDs fail.
* Storage is cheap.
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I had no more free SATA ports for backups :D
 
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