Comments on: My External Backup Drive Crashed! http://brianwong.com/blog/my-external-backup-drive-crashed/ Brian is a professional Internet marketer and social media marketing expert. Brian blogs about social media, online marketing, technology & personal development topics. Wed, 23 May 2012 13:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chun http://brianwong.com/blog/my-external-backup-drive-crashed/comment-page-1/#comment-2542 Chun Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:04:17 +0000 http://brianwong.com/blog/?p=413#comment-2542 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/ 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/

]]> By: Brian Wong http://brianwong.com/blog/my-external-backup-drive-crashed/comment-page-1/#comment-2541 Brian Wong Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:53:19 +0000 http://brianwong.com/blog/?p=413#comment-2541 Sold! I want one! Do you sell it at your stores? :) Sold! I want one! Do you sell it at your stores? :)

]]> By: Chun http://brianwong.com/blog/my-external-backup-drive-crashed/comment-page-1/#comment-2540 Chun Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:11:54 +0000 http://brianwong.com/blog/?p=413#comment-2540 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. 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.

]]> By: Sean Grimes http://brianwong.com/blog/my-external-backup-drive-crashed/comment-page-1/#comment-2510 Sean Grimes Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:53:18 +0000 http://brianwong.com/blog/?p=413#comment-2510 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 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

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