On 11/10/2011 10:06 PM, Mark C wrote:
I recently commented that one of my 3TB external drives went bad -
apparently it is the housing only, since the drive will run fine for
about 10 minutes and the just disappear from the computer. After it is
unplugged and off for a while, it works fine again (for another 10
minutes or so.) I have two backups of the drive - one is a few months
old and is offsite, the other is a local copy. WHen I realized the my
other 3TB drive had the *only* copy of several hundred images I got
worried and bought another drive. It took almost 2 days via USB 2 but
I now have two local copies again....
OK - the paranoia part: Turns out that the drive that has crapped out
is under warranty still. Yea! So I have to send it into Western
Digital. I can't wipe the drive (it would take a lot longer than 10
minutes to wipe a 3TB drive) and I am hesitating about sending off a
functional drive (albeit in a bad enclosure) with virtually every
photo I have taken in the last 10 years on it (all 122,000 of them).
We have everyting from 35mm film scans, MF scans, and every image form
a digital camera since my first 3.3mp Coolpix. All my snowflakes, all
the stuff that is in my book, full layouts of all the cards I used to
make for art fairs (front and back), all sorts of stuff. There is
nothing embarrassing or compromising on the drive - aside from the
fact that 90+% of the photos absolutely suck - but I balk at just
blithely sending off all these images to who knows where... Am I being
unduly paranoid? (As opposed to duly paranoid...)
Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks for a new enclosure or see
if I can salvage the drive and put in my PC....
Any thoughts?
Mark
I'd shell out a few bucks for the new enclosure. But then I've never
had a drive fail in any way that wasn't catastrophic, though I'm still
waiting for one to actually explode...
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Don't lose heart! They might want to cut it out, and they'll want to avoid a
lengthily search.
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