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Chris's advice : BACK UP YOUR ****ING TRANCE
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| THE_Chris |
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Bought a CD new 52x writer the other day, decided to back up all my Trance. Took 3 days solid - 65 CD's, 36Gb. Mostly livesets. I had been meaning to do this for two years and finally decided to do it. I put some old '99 CD into the hifi and got burning. :)
All done, I was relieved. Turned off the computer and went to bed.
The very next day my 43Gb HDD, the one with all my Trance on, crashed and cant be recovered. I'd have lost the lot if I hadnt backed it up the other day. And I couldnt download it again. Got most of it at college before they locked down all the labs, and I couldnt download 36gb on a 56k modem.
This little episode had taught me one thing. Back up ALL your Trance. :D I missed disaster by 24 hours. :) |
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| JayD |
Should've bought a dvdr writer. Could've backed it up on 9 cd's man.
JaY |
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| Electronicapo1 |
| yup 65 cds sounds like a big waste of space.. but at least you got everything backed up... I still remember my crash... Black Sunday... 35 + GB all gone. :( let us take a moment to remember.:( :( :( |
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| starglider |
| quote: | Originally posted by JayD
Should've bought a dvdr writer. Could've backed it up on 9 cd's man.
JaY |
Yep, my backup is mostly complete and I've only gone through 15 DVDs. I'd never have the patience to burn 65 CDs... |
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| KilldaDJ |
u probably killed ur hard drive by the CDRW requesting data at 52x!
and 65 times of it, the cache must of ing been hot. |
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| diego |
| quote: | Originally posted by JayD
Should've bought a dvdr writer. Could've backed it up on 9 cd's man.
JaY |
that's what i'm doing
but i've read that cd rs and dvd rs will fail after a year or so is that true? |
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| JayD |
| quote: | Originally posted by diego
but i've read that cd rs and dvd rs will fail after a year or so is that true? |
Nope.
JaY |
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| diego |
| and what temperature do they need to be stored within to be fine? |
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| bobba lou |
| I'm with everyone else on the DVD burner, they have become pretty inexpensive as of late... |
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| JayD |
| quote: | Originally posted by diego
and what temperature do they need to be stored within to be fine? |
Uhh. Just don't keep them next to lava and they should be fine.
JaY |
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| itsTrueSonic |
| quote: | Originally posted by THE_Chris
:eyes:
Bought a CD new 52x writer the other day, decided to back up all my Trance. Took 3 days solid - 65 CD's, 36Gb. Mostly livesets. I had been meaning to do this for two years and finally decided to do it. I put some old '99 CD into the hifi and got burning. :)
All done, I was relieved. Turned off the computer and went to bed.
The very next day my 43Gb HDD, the one with all my Trance on, crashed and cant be recovered. I'd have lost the lot if I hadnt backed it up the other day. And I couldnt download it again. Got most of it at college before they locked down all the labs, and I couldnt download 36gb on a 56k modem.
This little episode had taught me one thing. Back up ALL your Trance. :D I missed disaster by 24 hours. :) |
what diego said was true .. you probably overheated your HD .. but how messed up was your HD ? I learned that about 95% of all HDs can be recovered very easily by using it as a secondary drive and getting a new primary HD. Unless you are getting data cyclic errors or the power would not response when you plug in the power adapter, i guess that's when you can declare the HD fried.
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| Mr.Mystery |
| Gee, I better start backing up my vinyls then... |
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