Its actually not, because it didn't include the month of stress worrying about whether it would recover, finding a recovery source, anger because I wanted to run Crashplan on the computer with the drive, but the my brother, the owner, insisting his backup plan was good. Add that to it, and backups become a necessity of life: water, food, shelter, backups! Eric On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 10:48 AM, Steve Litt wrote: > On Tue, 2 Jun 2015 15:46:53 -0700 > 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. > > This is the greatest advertisement, for backups, that I've ever seen. > Even with backups, I've been knocked back a whole week once or twice. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > June 2015 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence > http://www.troubleshooters.com/key > --------------------------------------------------- > 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 >