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i've lost my life... hard drive crash stupid piece of $#()*)*#)
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| Zombie0729 |
do yourself a favor and go back up now... i neglected to do so for about 2 mos :( i've lost some absolutly priceless projects on my computer, not to mention software as well...
the going quote on hard drive recovery is about $2000 and i'd love to know if anyone knows of a good place to do this.
however with times like this, i start to re-evaluate what my system is and maybe its time to ditch this computer and just buy a new one(god this pains me)
i currently have a dual core 4400, 2 gigs of RAM... and now a busted hard drive haha.
any opinions welcome, but let me tell you there is no worse feeling then knowing that some of your projects MIGHT NEVER see the light of day again :(
also can anyone tell me why these two computers differ by $300???
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16883103085
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...N82E16883103134 |
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| Project-K |
| Good point there. A blank CD costs what, 1.50$ at most? It's a good habit to have. |
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| Eric J |
Man, that sucks. I'm really sorry.
This was the exact reason why I bought a Dell PowerEdge 830 server with a 4 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. It may be overkill for a simple back up situation, but the peace of mind is worth the $1500 and I don;t have to remember to make backups periodically. |
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| Tinto |
Can you still have the drive visible on your computer? If so, you can use programs like Restorer Pro to recover your files...
I had a crash of my computer a few years ago due to a bad power source and my HD got f*cked... I lost a few files (most mp3s), but this proggie helped me alot to recover 80% of my "must-have" files |
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| palm |
| tell me more about raid |
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| Eldritch |
Sorry to hear about that. :(
I'll back up my stuff tonight.
You should go with the Intel machine. It's much better. |
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| Ghost Raver |
Damn :nervous:
I've lost all of my projects, samples and all a couple of times already. I'm being a lot smarter this time though :p |
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| echosystm |
| quote: | Originally posted by Eric J
This was the exact reason why I bought a Dell PowerEdge 830 server with a 4 160GB SATA drives in a RAID 5 configuration. It may be overkill for a simple back up situation, but the peace of mind is worth the $1500 and I don;t have to remember to make backups periodically. |
this goes for palm too...
raid is NOT an alternative to backing up. raid will only protect you from drive failure caused by the drive itself. this might include platter or read head malfunctions, etc. and is very rare in this day and age.
raid will not protect from viruses, power surges (as it will usually hit every drive in the array) or user/program errors. these are the most common causes of data loss. hence, raid gives you basically no protection.
sorry to say this eric j, but i strongly suggest you rethink your backup system. you would be best off splitting your array into two, using the second as a backup. working in IT, i have seen too many people get raped from thinking that raid solves anything.
that said, raid does have benefits for increasing performance.
anthony, how did the problem occur? like the guy above said, if your computer can still see the hard drive, there are tools you can use to get some data back. if your computer can't see it and you can't spend that $2,000, there is a very small chance you might be able to do a platter swap. i once did this @ work for a bit of lulz and actually managed to retrieve some data. you will obviously need a drive of the exact same model and revision as the damaged drive. i think you'll only have about half an hour before the platter is oxidised and useless. |
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| Eric J |
Yes that is true, I wasn't saying that RAID was the answer to everything, but it is good for protecting against physical hard drive failure, which is what Zombie0729 had experienced. If there is a major power surge, then there is a good chance that all your machines could be affected, to which the only answer is disconnected or off-site backups.
Unfortunately, CD's & DVD's are a cumbersome solution to backing up large amounts of data. The only real solution there is to that is tape-backup, which can be cumbersome and slow as well, not to mention expensive.
My main concern when buying a server with a hardware RAID array was protecting against physical drive failure, which I have experienced on more than one occasion. My surge protection comes in the form of a UPS, and of course I have anti-virus software.
I really don't want to split the array, because then I only get the 320 GB, instead of (n-1) 480GB. The only additional protection I was considering is possibly an external drive and doing a block-level copy to the disk at specified intervals. However, since I have ~400GB of data, I'm still investigating the fastest external solution, which at this point seems to be eSATA. This should help protect against the other causes of failure you mentioned. |
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| djsphere |
| just burn on a cd your projects and samples....no need for expensive backup solutions |
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| music2dance2 |
Dude that sucks man. To be honest i have backed up for a while, I will do now though. The intel is better, the spec if slightly better which reflects in price and cos its intel.
What state is the drive in? I have to do recovery on drives at work but depends whats actually happened.
As for backup solutions. You can get 500 GB USB HDD for cheap as now. |
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| Reno |
If you can't see you disk in the bios then you're in trouble. RAID1 (mirroring) or RAID5 (stripping) probably would have saved your disk as RAID is redundancy (except RAID0). It won't stop data from corrupting though.
If your disk is still spinning up and can be seen in the bios, I'd get a 2nd drive and build XP or whatever your os is on that. Configure your trashed drive to slave and see if you can see it in Windows.
As for your pc, I wouldn't blame the pc for hard disk crash and if its dual core it must be quite new so why get another one?
Also don't listen to what people say about the brand. Most branded pc's have a different brand hard disk anyway. ...and IBMS's are crap (over priced).
For backup purposes I'd buy a usb hard disk or NAS. USB hard is simple backup. Plug in, copy files. CD's or DVD's are a pain to backup to. |
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