Couldn't be more gutted - lost entire MP3 collection

[boskysquelch]

Standard hard drives are the most cost effective storage solution at the moment it seems.

4deff....my process of backup has resorted to HDs tbh... still have a carboot of dvds/cds AND a blackbox of 8 drives/partitions in a working LAN equalling 10 years worth of my life on puters... I tend to work on a 20gig partion now...fine edit to another 15gig partition..then back up to a pair of externals & the blackbox....from which I'll have a spools worth of disc burnage...when I get tooo nervous.

all that being said...when I get dragged out in the bodybag I reckons the Council will prolly trash the lot before my flesh gets disposed of.

 

[Teepee]

Incredible drive-related bad luck I'm having. Had a internal 500gb go down about 3 months ago, which had all my mp3s (plus about 6 months of torrenting, but that's by the by), but luckily had a backup on an external USB 1TB drive.

Just plugged that back in and it won't work, computer can't even see it, tried another mac and another lead but nothing. Disk Utility won't see it at all. Lost everything: 70gb of music (about 10,700 tunes). I've just found 6 tunes on another drive and have managed to download the 15gb in my iPhone (good old Senuti - didn't even need to jailbreak it) but that's it.

Fucking gutted, I had old ska and reggae singles that are almost irreplaceable (though I'm sure I can find a lot on what.cd they'll throw me off pretty quick for grabbing loads of shit), I'll have to print out my missing library and try and get some of it again. Fuck.

(and I dropped my replacement internal causing permanent damage, this year of my 37th year has been well unlucky).

Anyone got any ideas as to what might have happened to the drive (it was stored in a cupboard for about 3 months), I'm going to boot into windows and see if that can see it, but I doubt it, especially as it was HFS+ formatted.

I once had an external drive break. I took it to bits, removed the sata controller/usb converter bit from it, leaving me with just the drive. I then bought a sata to usb lead online and plugged it all in and it worked. Was just the controller that was borked. Might be worth trying this.

EDIT: oh, you did it! Nice

 

[mauvais]

I've never had a drive die such that I couldn't get a significant amount of data off it. It's always worth a mess around

 

[Cloud]

The only thing I really care about is my music collection and family Photo and video. I have the whole lot on my main PC, a copy on a external drive which is connected to the PC, another copy on an old PC full of IDE drives plus another copy on an external which was brand new, filled with the media and then put back in the box and stored in the wardrobe so that makes four copies, two isolated from the internet.

Call me paranoid but I have lost data in the past. I also have all the pictures and video backed up onto DVD and about 25% of the music but have found this unreliable in the past. Several DVD's don't work after a few years stored under the bed. You can't be too safe really, I once bought an 250 GB IDE drive and filled it with a load of my older tracks, stored it in protective anti static packaging and packed it safetly away for two years only to dig it out one day and find it had somehow broken...

It all gets a bit much keeping track of the backups sometimes.

 

[Chz]

The real key is to have mirrored volumes and back *those* up. Not sure how easy that is on a Mac though.

 

[Quartz]

I have a 3 stage backup:

1- mirrored local drives.
2- Backed up every night to a server with RAID 5 (Windows Home Server rocks!)
3- Backed up monthly to a USB drive which is stored away from the house.