Hard drives are CHEAP now days!
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Brett
Meat-Hippy
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- Salt Lake City Utah
perpendicular!
timpanogos
Push to the Peak
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I've heard that Prichett is a fairly hard drive
Seth
These go to 11
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My Lacie 250 just took a sh*t last night. Only 6 months old and dead already. Now I gotta pay $400 to recover the info. Lame.
Who has a recommendation on a good fw 800 drive to replace the lame ass lacie one.
Who has a recommendation on a good fw 800 drive to replace the lame ass lacie one.
Do you know is it the carrier that crapped or the drive? I don't know if it'd do you any good but I can get you a copy of Data Rescue for the Mac that can recover files. If it is the drive that crapped why not just replace the drive with a new one (I know, any excuse to get new toys is a good one 
) Lacie actually gets excellent reviews, the only other carrier that I know of that gets as high of reviews is the carriers from OWC. It's always said, if you are willing to pay the money get a Lacie
) Lacie actually gets excellent reviews, the only other carrier that I know of that gets as high of reviews is the carriers from OWC. It's always said, if you are willing to pay the money get a Lacie
Brett
Meat-Hippy
- Location
- Salt Lake City Utah
I've always used Western Digital......but what is this Lacie you speak about?
It's a really smart Golden Retriever that had his own TV show back in the day. He could speak by barking in morse-code or something like that...
CR
It's a really smart Golden Retriever that had his own TV show back in the day. He could speak by barking in morse-code or something like that...
CR
I think you mean a Collie
Lacie is the brand of enclosure...not the drive itself.
www.lacie.com
and FWIW, Seagate is one of my favorite brands because they offer a five year warranty. WD is not what it used to be, any of the others in SATA and PATA are all gonna be very similar with similar end results.
Unless you go Raptor.
true, but then you're limited to 150GB per drive...too small for me and I don't need 10K RPM
true, but then you're limited to 150GB per drive...too small for me and I don't need 10K RPM
Yup, I only use them for OS and game installs. Other than that I'm with Seagate perps now....
scoutabout
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That sucks. Good time to mention the importance of backups in our digital world. I won't go too deep into my backup strategy...I have a sickness. 300 GB of RAID 5 drives, daily DAT tape backups, daily change backups to twin 200 GB IDE drives, and weekly DVD backups of changed data in triplicate (2 at home, one in the vault at the bank).
Good luck with the recovery.
Seth
These go to 11
- Location
- 2 weeks from everywhere
Do you know is it the carrier that crapped or the drive? I don't know if it'd do you any good but I can get you a copy of Data Rescue for the Mac that can recover files. If it is the drive that crapped why not just replace the drive with a new one (I know, any excuse to get new toys is a good one
All I know is it won't mount to the desktop. (and yes I know the "mount me" jokes are gunna come) Doesn't show up in the system profiler or the disk utility. The light turns on, but it doesn't make the typical noises, Its just quite.
It was working fine. I shut everything down because my one of my webie drives was not mounting and it was bullet hot. Let everything cool, then hooked everything up and the two webie's showed up and the lacie disappeared.
And yes Steve you have a sickness.
Yeah, your right, collie.
Steve did you lose data as a child?
Is there a easy way to switch to a new c: drive without (re)installing windows (and everything else)? Got a new drive a couple weeks ago and would love to make it my primary, but don't want go though all that if I don't have too.
CR
Steve did you lose data as a child?
Is there a easy way to switch to a new c: drive without (re)installing windows (and everything else)? Got a new drive a couple weeks ago and would love to make it my primary, but don't want go though all that if I don't have too.
CR
it depends on what you want to ultimately do. Just added storage or do you want it to be the primary drive with the OS and everything on it or??? If you just want it as storage then just put it in, partition it and assign it a drive letter then start using it. If you want the OS and all your current info on it then the easiest way is to use a ghosting program to create an image, Norton Ghost is a popular one and I've heard good things about Ghost4Linux (free
)Sounds like it got terminal park.... take the drive out and toss it in the freezer, then hook it up as fast as you can and copy off data like a fool if it starts working.