My External Backup Drive Crashed!
Posted on 26. Aug, 2009 by Brian Wong in Personal Stuff
So my Maxtor OneTouch III died today. 300 GB of data down the drain. Although I use it for archiving non-critical data, I still feel a deep lost for the information stored on that device!
After some research, I realize that hard-drives are really disasters waiting to happen.
Watch this informative video to see what I mean:
They are freakin’ sensitive devices waiting to break down!
The moral of the story? Backup, backup, backup!
Now my main critical data is on my computer and I use Apple’s Time Machine to backup everything to my 500 GB Apple Time Capsule. Now, I’m wondering whether that is sufficient and if my backup disk needs a backup disk??? *sigh*.
If you’re reading this, I’m actually interested to know know what is your backup plan?
If you don’t have one….BACKUP NOW! This post might be the reminder you need to backup!
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Brian Wong is a serial entrepreneur, Internet marketer and social media marketing expert. Brian helps individuals to succeed online through social media marketing, blogging and online marketing.
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Brian Wong is a serial entrepreneur, life explorer and father of two. Over the last ten years, he has founded successful businesses in several areas including the health and wellness industry, in property investment and in online information marketing.
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4 Comments
Sean Grimes
26. Aug, 2009
Hey Brian. I just had a 750 GB Seagate drive crash last week. Luckily, I’m using the Ready NAS +NV backup device originally created by Infrant Technologies now taken over by Netgear. It’s an X-Raid setup which is similar to Raid 5, but I can expand my backup volume. My backup volume consist of 4 750 Seagate SATA drives. The drive failed on S.M.A.R.T. errors which my device let me know via email!! I’ve been getting warnings for the past 3 months or so. I simply removed the drive, contacted Seagate and had them send me another one because it was still under warranty. Got the new drive, popped in it and let my backup device rebuild my backup volume. All is good now.
To all who don’t have a backup device, GET ONE or you’ll lose precious information in the future. It happened to me once, I’m now doing whatever it takes to prevent that from happening ever again.
Sean Grimes
Chun
23. Sep, 2009
I use something called Drobo. It is an external four bay hard drive enclosure. What’s different about it is that it intelligently backs up your data. Say you put in two drives into Drobo, whatever data you put in there will instantly be spread across both drives. What’s really cool is that if you start running out of space on the two drives, you can insert another drive and voilà, more space and Drobo actually starts replicating data across all three drives. If one drive fails it will alert you and you then replace the failed drive on the fly! Once you insert the new drive Drobo will start replicating. Great thing is that you can use it in conjnction with Time Machine seamlessly.
Brian Wong
23. Sep, 2009
Sold! I want one! Do you sell it at your stores? :)
Chun
24. Sep, 2009
I don’t operate the Mac stores any longer as I’m doing my film stuff full time now :-) But anyway, I bought mine online from Provantage in the US since they don’t sell them here. You can order them through Amazon too. There is also a photo dealer selling them in Singapore:
http://www.cathayphoto.com.sg/
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