<p dir="ltr">1 to of online storage can be had for cheap. USB backup drives. Or even a simple raid 1. Look at your Data stored if the cost of any of those is worth less than the data you store there do something about it. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Advice I give to EVERYONE. Heck look at the disk recovery costs listed. A 2nd drive and external backup is a savings. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 2, 2015 4:51 PM, "Keith Smith" <<a href="mailto:techlists@phpcoderusa.com">techlists@phpcoderusa.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Sorry for your lose!<br>
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Interestingly enough the article says "The surprising (and bad) news is that Seagate 3.0TB drives are failing a lot more, with their failure rate jumping from 9% to 15%. The Western Digital 3TB drives have also failed more, with their rate going up from 4% to 7%."<br>
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According to the article all others are performing within expected failure range... or would that be acceptable range for them?<br>
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I buy Dell and I think they come with Seagate. I hope I never lose a drive. I lost one at work about 18 years ago. My manager lost a drive a month earlier. I've had a very uneventful life when it comes to computer failures and i hope it stays that way.<br>
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On 2015-06-02 15:46, Eric Cope wrote:<br>
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not at all.<br>
The failure ended up being two-tiered. The first problem was a<br>
firmware failure. The fee to recover the first pass was $395. After<br>
the first pass, they recovered my critical data successfully, however<br>
it was discovered there were 2 heads that were failing. There was data<br>
that couldn't be recovered without replacing the heads. They offered<br>
to take it into their clean room for $750, replace the heads, and<br>
recover the rest of the data. I didn't need it (it was my brother's<br>
data and he was too cheap to pay for recovery), so I opted not to<br>
continue the recovery process.<br>
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FYI - if you have data on Seagates, get it<br>
off: <a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/" target="_blank">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/</a><br>
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Eric<br>
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On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash <<a href="mailto:michael@butash.net" target="_blank">michael@butash.net</a>><br>
wrote:<br>
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Ouch, if you don't mind my asking, what did it end up costing<br>
total? Luckily never needed to myself, but people have asked and I<br>
never have an answer.<br>
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On or off-list is fine. :)<br>
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-mb<br>
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On 06/02/2015 11:22 AM, Eric Cope wrote:<br>
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Hi everyone,<br>
I recently had a Seagate 3TB drive fail on me. The local company,<br>
Desert Data Recovery, was able to recover all of my critical data.<br>
They were very responsive and really inexpensive. They did a free<br>
evaluation and offered a "No Data, No Fee" policy. I'd highly<br>
recommend them.<br>
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<a href="http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/" target="_blank">http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/</a> [2]<br>
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Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need<br>
recovery services, check them out.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
Eric<br>
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