Q Bert

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Got home from work today and my wife informed me that she decided to clean my office, and in the process of doing this she knocked a black box off my desk and asked what it was. It turns out it was my music drive a WD 1 Tera-byte drive that was half full, about 12 years of collecting music. Well over half full 4000+ full Albums of music destroyed everything from the Beatles to E-40. took everything I had not to cry. The drive is toast it just clicks and beeps. Not looking for solutions just needed to vent a little, maybe hear some similar horror stories.

Whining-devil

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thats really sucks, my music collection wasnt half of what you had but it all got deleted because of a virus, 2 years later my music library still isnt what it used to be.

Phyrric

Super shitty, You should try to take it to a place and have a professional try to get the files off of it

Q Bert

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Defiantly something I have thought about thats for sure. Some of the stuff on that drive was very rare. Entire discography's of the Beatles, Jimmy Hendrix, Al Green, Temptations, E-40, The Jacksons, Eminem and many many more.

Drowning my sorrows in a bottle of Jagermeister. LOL

NCC-2000

I've had to use a data recovery service before when one of my hard drives bit the dust. It can get expensive but you basically have to put a value on the data on that drive and decide if it's worth it to you to recover it. When I had mine done, they recovered every single file on the drive, which was a 250GB, and sent it back on a brand new 500GB external drive that I kept and now use for storage of other stuff.

cmatthewb101

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If it's not smashed in pieces, there's still a good chance to get the files off of it.

c4w18

to be honest, the arms that the read plates are probably the only thing fucked up. take it to a professional and you'll be alright as long as the plates weren't magnetized by something on the outside they'll still have the data.

Q Bert

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What did it cost you out of curiosity?

outtamymind

i work for a computer repair shop and had a lady come in asking to get her pictures recovered from when they spent a month in new orleans for mardi gras. well her drive was toast and we couldn't do anything about it.

another one was buddy forgot to backup the pictures of his child being born and basically the first year of his life. he spent $2000 getting those pictures back from a clean room recovery.

i got a million more if you want to hear them, those are just the 2 worst one recently

EmperorJJ1

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damn man sorry bert

Q Bert

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Well the HD is on its way to be examined. I talked to some computer guys I know and got some other estimates and I felt like my collection was worth trying to save. I might not get to do much work to the cobalt this year which kind of sucks but hey sometimes we have to evaluate our prioritys lol. And I will be adding a RAID back up so this never happens again

outtamymind

we quote around $2000 on average for clean rooms. and agree, sometimes we got to think of whats important and sometimes its not the item that's important but the time and effort that is.

Q Bert

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Yep. I had quotes from 1500 to 3000 but went with a company out of Denver that came highly recommended but they want to get the drive before giving me a final total. I am willing to spend 2500. Even if I don't count the 250 to 300 CD's I own I couldn't buy that collection again for that price. And allot of the stuff is what my customers for the last 10 years listen to (always with permission). So we shall see.

outtamymind

ya thats about average, and any reputable shop will want to properly assess the drive before giving a final quote.

what we do at my shop is take a deposit for the assessment and shipping and ship it to ontario and get a quote from the company and let the client know.

c4w18

don't you mean your WIFE is willing to spend up to 2500?

Hockeyman

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stick the hard drive in the freezer for 2-3 hours and plug it back in right away, sometimes that will make it work for a bit.

EmperorJJ1

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if u get it back id make a few copys. makes me think that whole "raid" bullshit is worth it

outtamymind

that is a 1 time shot and is rare to work correctly.

raid is good and bad if its a hardware raid, software raid is pretty much useless. its easier to just do regular backups.

EmperorJJ1

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what is software raid? idk much about it but i thought the only 2 options were with 2 identical HDD that mirror each other or 2 hdd together for performance

outtamymind

basically software raid is everything that comes hooked up to your motherboard, hardware raid is a seperate PCI or SCSI card that you plug your drives into. and technically there are 5 differen't forms of raid, mirroring is the more common form used.

Q Bert

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LOL well her money is my money and vise versa, it is how much WE are willing to spend. She does feel very bad about it. Not to mention when her and my daughters decide to link up there mp3 players to sync they will be feeling the pain also.

As for preventative measures, basically if I can get the music back. There will be 3 one terabyte drives. 2 will be in a hardware RAID 1 (mirroring) and the 3rd will be a drive that I will keep in my safe and back up to every 6 months.

EmperorJJ1

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nice

Q Bert

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Ya but it really screws up my plans for the summer. I have been iching for about a year to start a new project and the Cobalt was going to be it. Dont think there will be any glass layed anytime soon.

EmperorJJ1

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ya well thats easily 3k worth of bullshit right there if u get the drives and restore

c4w18

ask outtamymind about what i think is called bit pairing if you're going to be using three drives...kind of rusty on raid but that would be a pretty good solution if i recall correctly.