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So thanks to Eskom power failures, my secondary drive now says the data is corruptable or unreadable. Who can I take this 80gig Maxtor to in order to recover the data?

Thanks
 
A word of advice, once you have recovered the information bin the Maxtor for Seagate. I've seen ALOT of Maxtors give up the ghost, no Eskom spikes required.
 
I hope that everyone will learn the backup lesson. If your data is important, if your data will take a longer than acceptable time or cost to reconstitute, then make a backup.

You can use a CD, DVD, USB flash drive or USB disk drive which all over good solutions at various costs and convenience.

There is NO reason not to back up.
 
Hmmm... You wanna backup my 2TB of data??? Trust me, it's not always as easy as that, especially with 500GB to 1TB Hard drives coming onto the market...
 
Yep it is difficult to maintain a backup routine, because it is time consuming. But at least try to make a backup of your most important data and certain things don't need to be backup all the time because it is static data like images etc.
 
marine1 said:
10 gigs of photos that I have taken over the last year. I am gonna cry.
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I can relate - every few months I make it a point archive mine (as well as regular backups) and store them away from home. Hope you get them back. :o
 
I used Magic Recovery last time and got most of my files back
 
savage said:
Hmmm... You wanna backup my 2TB of data??? Trust me, it's not always as easy as that, especially with 500GB to 1TB Hard drives coming onto the market...
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Agreed. But how much of that is classed as important? If it's critical data then the (horrendous) cost of a tape unit or additional disk would be justified.

If not that critical, then the use of RAID, correctly set up, would help in the light of a single disk failure.

In any case it's probably worthwhile investing in a good quality UPS, not so much for power standby, but rather to act as an isolation to mains noise.
 
bekdik how much is a tape drive?

seriously though

TAPE DRIVE OR BLU RAY

i think i would opt for blu ray man, 25 gig disks is plenty

i cannot believe you have 1 tb of absolutly critical data

would not be so bad to loose all your porno :)
 
killadoob said:
bekdik how much is a tape drive?

seriously though

TAPE DRIVE OR BLU RAY

i think i would opt for blu ray man, 25 gig disks is plenty

i cannot believe you have 1 tb of absolutly critical data

would not be so bad to loose all your porno :)
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Tape drive? From about R4000 up, not cheap.

Blue Ray? I would be careful if I need to retain the backup for any length of time. Even CD's are not archive quality and can become unreadable after a while. An unreliable backup is worse than none at all.

Also, backing up is not only a matter of storage size of the backup medium. speed is equally important. Backing up 2TB to a slow device will take a whole lot longer than you anticipated!

Also one must make sure that you can still read the medium. One corporate I know of backed up to 4mm DAT's upgraded to the the latest DLT's and then found that they no longer had any way of reading the DAT's!
 
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