3-2-1 backups, folks. Personally I really care about my data, a lot of it is irreplaceable, so I invest in redundant backups. I use NAS devices and the cloud. More about that here https://www.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/dehngo/how_to_protect_your_data_raid_is_not_a_backup/ As an artist, losing my data suuuuuuucks! (EDIT: I…
DVDR's do not seem to fail at all, sucks we got "moved/funneled" away from a decent solution as long as you kept them out of sunlight/microwaves or getting scratched they seem fine... i say bring them back.
Polycount! There's a name I haven't heard in a long time... I'm not sure how this thread got necro'd and into my email, but it's nice to see some familiar names. B) Also, cloud storage 4TW. There weren't a lot of options for that back in 2009, but it's all I use now unless I am literally going to sneakernet something…
TRUTH !!!!!!!!! i have at least 1 hard drive die on me every year all my friends for the past 10 years have be going on and on and on about how maxtor is the most reliable manufacturer so about 90% of the the hard drives i owned where maxtor and guess what 90% of the ones that died on me where maxtor too there is no trust…
From what I've learned in reading through this thread, it's safe to say, WD's and Seagates will crap eventually, so the solution to our drives being faulty and losing all our work? Back them up on several hard drives and it's a good thing I've done that thus far throughout these past two years. I have three external HDD's…
hope you guys with the seagates aren't part of that hugeass firmware recall/mandatory flash order.... almost all drives of the 7200.11 500gb+ lines need a new firmware. Else they brick on boot.
It appears I have just lost all of my 3D work I'd done in the past 4 years. Went online, and apparently it is a common problem with Western Digital external Hard Drives, particularly the MyBook. :/ So... uhhhh yeh, don't buy this PoS. I lost my stuff. oh well, at least I have my webpage up. :[
Time-honored system is 3 copies of your important data: 2 copies onsite + 1 copy in the cloud (or at a friend's house). I've lost data, and it's painful. I've also had drives start to fail, and replaced them before any loss. Drives all fail at some point, both HDDs and SSDs. Backblaze shares some nice data on this. If you…