Stupid! Stupid! STUPID!

[KenC]

DVD storage is easy, even if you're tight for space - just buy a three-ring binder and a package of plastic pages with CD/DVD pouches. Each page holds eight if you use both sides and even a two-inch binder will hold dozens of pages. Just put the binder in a bookcase (teachers have those, right?) and pick an outrageous color so you can find it.

I've been doing this all along (since about 1999) and have added external hard drives since - I now have two - one next to the computer, the other at work, which I bring home every few weeks for an update. I had a drive crash about five years ago when DVD was my only backup and the guy who fixed it for me was relieved that he didn't have to use his recovery software to get most of my photo files off the failed drive because they took a lot longer to recover than document files.

 

[Bend The Light]

I connected with a cable...

It didn't want to know...I tried an old IDE drive which did work, so thought my luck was out...Same noises with the broken drive as it was in the casing. Decided to...erm...give it a little TAP!...And it started spinning! And it works! Ha ha ha! Backing up now before trying it back in the casing...

 

[480sparky40 40]

I was just at Costco last week looking at fireproof safes. This post is making me realise I need to go back and look at my backup process and upgrade it very very soon.

'Fireproof' safes are useless for protecting digital stuff from a fire. Apply enough heat long enough, and your back-ups will be gone. All a fireproof safe will do is keep it from burning. It WILL NOT prevent drives, cards, CDs/DVDs/BluRays from melting.

 

[IByte]

Have made a start...I have 2 x 1TB hard drives, one is the working drive and the other is backed up upon connecting to the computer. Kept separate at other times. Have a cable in the post to try recover the crashed drive (if it's a controller problem).
Have been looking into cloud/remote storage as well, and just pricing up my options.
Also taking back ups to relatives houses for their computers.

So yes...I learned my lesson!

Oooooo you could build your own server throw 5 TB and use two as backup

 

[pgriz]

I connected with a cable...

It didn't want to know...I tried an old IDE drive which did work, so thought my luck was out...Same noises with the broken drive as it was in the casing. Decided to...erm...give it a little TAP!...And it started spinning! And it works! Ha ha ha! Backing up now before trying it back in the casing...

Reminds me of an old joke (and since this is the internet, you can't stop me if you heard it already )

Lady goes to a garage in the village because her car is making some very strange noises. The old mechanic running the garage opens the hood, listens to it for a while, takes out a hammer, and taps the engine. The noise stops instantly.
"That'll be 200 dollars."
"What?!" exclaims the lady. "Any dam fool could have used a hammer to do that!"
"Yes" the old mechanic replies, "Any dam fool could have used the hammer, but it takes fifty years of experience to know WHERE to tap!"




Carry on. Hope your "tap" restored the will for that drive to perform. And you got your stuff back.

 

[12sndsgood]

I was just at Costco last week looking at fireproof safes. This post is making me realise I need to go back and look at my backup process and upgrade it very very soon.

'Fireproof' safes are useless for protecting digital stuff from a fire. Apply enough heat long enough, and your back-ups will be gone. All a fireproof safe will do is keep it from burning. It WILL NOT prevent drives, cards, CDs/DVDs/BluRays from melting.

yeah I realized that when i saw them and read the ratings on them. I thought they would do a little bit better then what they did.

 

[Tony S]

[QUOTE...they have wedding rings?][/QUOTE]


Yep...... and they sell caskets too.:er:

Costco - MUST READ THIS IMPORTANT INFORMATION BEFORE PURCHASING A CASKET

 

[480sparky40 40]

yeah I realized that when i saw them and read the ratings on them. I thought they would do a little bit better then what they did.

True, if the safe is in your closet upstairs, and your attached garage at the other end of the house has a small fire, you'll probably be OK. Even if the FD punches a hole in your roof and starts pumping water in... most fp safes are also waterproof. But if you house ends up as nothing more than a pile of ashes with the chimney sticking up, I doubt you'll be able to use anything in the safe to recover with.

On the plus side, it will keep things safe from the thievin' bastids out there, as well as leaky pipes and even possibly a tornado or hurricane.