OT: Data Recovery

[Keith Smith]

I had no idea what drive farming was so I did a search and found this 
interesting article  :  
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/backblaze_drive_farming/


On 2015-06-02 19:58, Nathan England wrote:
> They state in the article they use the "drive farming" method of
> getting their drives. I use exclusively Seagate because I've never had
> a WD last for very long and the four WD drives I had in operation all
> failed within the last year.
> 
> I have used the "drive farming" method myself and the drives always
> fail quickly. They are not normal drives. They are typically "green"
> drives which mean they aren't meant to spin continuously and be in
> constant use. They are meant to spin up, write data, spin down. Every
> drive I've pulled out of an enclosure and used full time has failed
> with all the dramatic flair of a drag queen on the strip.
> 
> The standard desktop drives I've used have worked great, and in that
> list I count Seagate, Toshiba, and Hitachi before they sold out to the
> horrible beast that is WD.
> 
> On 2015-06-02 15:46, Eric Cope wrote:
> 
>> not at all.
>> The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a
>> firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After
>> the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully,
>> however it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing.
>> There was data that couldn't be recovered without replacing the
>> heads. They offered to take it into their clean room for $750,
>> replace the heads, and recover the rest of the data. I didn't need
>> it (it was my brother's data and he was too cheap to pay for
>> recovery), so I opted not to continue the recovery process.
>> 
>> FYI - if you have data on Seagates, get it off:
>> 
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
>> [2]
>> 
>> Eric
>> 
>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash <michael at butash.net>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing total?
>> Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I never
>> have an answer.
>> 
>> On or off-list is fine. :)
>> 
>> -mb
>> 
>> On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote:
>> 
>> Hi everyone,
>> I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company,
>> Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data.
>> They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free
>> evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly
>> recommend them.
>> 
>> http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ [3]
>> 
>> Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need
>> recovery services, check them out.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Eric
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1]
>> 
>> ---------------------------------------------------
>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1]
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
>  PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>  To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
>  http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss [1]
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
> [2] 
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/
> [3] http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/
> 
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss

-- 
Keith Smith