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" <techlists@phpcoderusa.com> 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 <michael@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/ [2]

Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need
recovery services, check them out.

Thanks,
Eric

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