Whats the point?....

[Rands]

.... of having a 1TB external hard drive for back-ups, if the thing breaks, and u lose all your info!!!!

Had a WD 1TB for about a year now. Did regular backups. Eventually had to move stuff off my computers HD to the external co I was running out of space. that's MOVE stuff....
So today the external drive refuses to switch on. Take it to the shop where I bought it. The techie opens it, SMELLS inside & tells me it cooked!. tests the drive, and sure as nuts, it gone, along with all my 'stuff' : series(Supernatural-ALL seasons!, Fringe, Sparticus the list is endless), movies, music, work pictures taken on sites ( about four years worth!), all those little programmes that u d'load to make your life easier, all gone 750 odd Gb

I don't really have any questions about recovery, cos I know it will cost approx R1500, & u invalidate the warrantee.

Just my rant

edit :
actually , it will be interesting to know what stuff other poeple have lost in this way.

 

[ponder]

Did you remove the drive from the housing and connect it directly to your motherboard?

What is fried? The USB-SATA logic board or the HD logic board?

Backup means just that. If you only have one copy then it's not a backup!

 

[ChilliGirl]

there are companies that can do the recovery without voiding your warrantee... What they do is contact the supplier. Get approval to open drive. They give supplier a report.
They get your data back

on you go.

This is only possible if the disks inside are not shattered.

But yes try attach direct to mobo before going that route...

 

[Chevron]

Did you remove the drive from the housing and connect it directly to your motherboard?

What is fried? The USB-SATA logic board or the HD logic board?

Backup means just that. If you only have one copy then it's not a backup!

Was about to say this. If it's just a backup it's not so bad. Just get a new drive and watch from your pc for now.

 

[LazyLion]

I dunno... but I'm pretty sure that thread title field has more of a point than simply "Whats the point?...."

btw... you are the second guy to lose his external drive this week

Yes... and hard drives do fail... externals fail at a higher rate than internals. Buy another internal drive for backups.

 

[DerpiesFreud]

time to get raid 1
all my data exists in atleast 2 pcs
thus if 1 fails the other overlap
but if backup fails i got the origonal

 

[killadoob]

Back up is good because it if fails generally you should have stuff on another drive? So if you are backing up and deleting from source your back up failing is going to cause pain and it's not really a back up but the source .

 

[reedOsama]

I dunno... but I'm pretty sure that thread title field has more of a point than simply "Whats the point?...."

btw... you are the second guy to lose his external drive this week

Yes... and hard drives do fail... externals fail at a higher rate than internals. Buy another internal drive for backups.

why is that exactly?

 

[HavocXphere]

Go buy a new drive & go to a LAN. Problem solved.

I've recently started duplicating stuff too. Its a bit tedious though since I've got enough space to backup everything...just not in one continuous block on 1 device & spreading it out manually is a bit meh.

why is that exactly?

Because you give the drive to a knuckle head friend and he drops it. /jk

Real answer is likely that the external has less ventilation than in a PC case.

 

[CorneN]

Why keep backups of seasons and movies anyway? It's probably in your best interest to just delete once you have watched it.

 

[Sting]

Why keep backups of seasons and movies anyway? It's probably in your best interest to just delete once you have watched it.

QFT, or burn it to disk and delete it.

 

[PostmanPot]

Backup means just that. If you only have one copy then it's not a backup!

+1

Sorry for the loss regardless. Pity there was personal stuff with your series.

I backup personal pics to DVD.