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i`ve been having nightmares lately about my harddrive getting burntout, which would mean total collapse for me. Since i can`t get enough cd`s to backup 40 Gb, i`ve been thinking about getting a new Hard Drive and coppying all of my files into it, then keep it in a safe place. Should i do this? What are the chances of Hard Drives getting burntout? |
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My fucking 60 gigger just died the other day and now I've only got my ancient 10 gigger left. Fucking HATE IT. I had everything backed up on CD-R (I've got a few hundred of those things), but the pain is real. Backed up or not, 60,000MB of vanishing files is an annoyance. And I don't even know what went wrong or even if I can get it working again. Burn everything to disc, I don't trust ANY fucking harddrive anymore. CD-Rs are cheap. |
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anyone? |
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hmmmm....i dunno ophecks, i`d have to get tons and tons of cd`s |
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I know. My backup project lasted weeks and weeks, I just back EVERYTHING up as I get it. I can understand how much of a pain in the ass it would be to do it all at once, yeah. But I could NOT trust all that data on any harddrive, new or not. |
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anyway, what are the best hard drives out there? |
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i just deleted 10 gb of music i dont listen to :/ |
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just get an external hard drive and back up to that, sorted. |
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get a tapestreamer, you can get 120 gig tapes and a drive for about 400 $ (methinks) |
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oh... i suddenly had a flashback from the early days of my childhood... remember those tapes with Turbo 250 (or whatever it was called) for the old Commodore 64? First you had to load the turbo, then you had to fastforward to the game and watch colourful flickering bars for ten minutes, often to the sound of complete destruction, and finally the game was ready to be played... RUN *SYNTAX ERROR!* |
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oh... to try and be a little helpful: if you have a 60gb drive I can't imagine how all that space is filled with unreplaceable stuff - most of it is probably mp3's (many of which you can get again if catastrophy where to happen) and programs, right? Now... wav-files can be compressed with WinRar so that they shrink to between 3/4:s - 1/2 the size they where, do that if you have a lot of songs that you don't want to mp3. Make folders for everything, for example: Music -> Songfiles -> Cubase SX That way you'll have a good overview when it's time to use the backups. Make detalied notes about what you must backup so that you can get it over with quickly once you start the process... I've forgotten stuff like the ICQ history files (two years of messages lost), Outlook mail database, .ini files for programs like Cool Edit (if you've made your own effect patches) and so on. Make notes, make sure you don't forget anything that you might miss. Many setup files can often be discarded - try finding a newer version of the program instead of backing up a year old version... You'll probably end up with just a few CD's of real importance instead of tons of useless stuff. |
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buy a new motherboard with RAID on it. What RAID does, is allows you to use multiple hard disks, but unlike traditional scsi/ide setups, you can mirror and/or stripe drives. mirroring allows one drive to be the mirror image of the other, ie a 1:1 backup. striping allows for faster data access by spreading data over 2 disks. you can also stripe mirrors and all sorts on upto 5 disks(i think) in one go. with 2 hd drives, mirrored, when (not if) one dies, the other will have a copy of all the data. bin/recycle/dismantle the broken disk, put in a new one, the data is then transferred to it from the mirror disk, and bobs youre fathers brother...two mirrored disks,ready to go but also ready for the next crash! |
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