OT: Data Recovery

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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 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/ [2]
>>>>
>>>> Just thought I would share. Backups are cheaper, but if you need
>>>> recovery services, check them out.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Eric
>>>>
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>> Links:
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>> [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/
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