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. Advice I give to EVERYONE. Heck look at the disk recovery costs listed. A 2nd drive and external backup is a savings. On Jun 2, 2015 4:51 PM, "Keith Smith" wrote: > > Sorry for your lose! > > 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%." > > According to the article all others are performing within expected failure > range... or would that be acceptable range for them? > > 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. > > > > > 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/ >> [3] >> >> Eric >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:16 PM, Michael Butash >> 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/ [2] >>>> >>>> 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@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@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] http://www.desertdatarecovery.com/ >> [3] >> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-reliability-update-september-2014/ >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > -- > Keith Smith > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss