I think I'm going to be sick

[Viper GTS]

My roommate just told me that a 200 GB drive in one of our servers died, taking with it 85% of our media collection (movies & music).

That's about 1,000 full CD's worth of MP3/AAC audio (all ripped and encoded by us), hundreds of TV show episodes (again, done by us), and tons of web stuff (The Parlor, etc.).

I'm going to go cry now.



Viper GTS

 

[minendo]

Ouch that sucks.

 

[Heisenberg]

So I take you don't have any backups?

 

[SP33Demon]

This is karma's way of saying, go out and buy them now.

 

[Savij]

Yeah, I had that happen to the 40gig on my file server a few years back. I've still got the drive around here somewhere, but the scratching and clicking sound leaves me little hope...

 

[bootymac]

You have the backups, of course

 

[Jzero]

Originally posted by: Savij
Yeah, I had that happen to the 40gig on my file server a few years back. I've still got the drive around here somewhere, but the scratching and clicking sound leaves me little hope...

Stick it in the freezer, mount it, recover the data before it thaws.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This is karma's way of saying, go out and buy them now.

We do own an extremely large portion of it, the loss is the time ripping/encoding/organizing it.

Note that I said it was all done by us, not downloaded.

Dumbass.

Viper GTS

 

[Booster]

My roommate just told me that a 200 GB drive in one of our servers died, taking with it 85% of our media collection (movies & music).

How do you people always have HDs fail on you? I've never seen a single hard drive fail anywhere and never even heard about it (well, except this forum, of course).

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: bootymac
You have the backups, of course

Some of it is backed up, not all. We were actually looking at ways to back it up in fear that this might happen, but backing up ~`250+ GB of data (on a spanned disk, so the entire span is likely gone) is hard when it won't compress.

Viper GTS

 

On track has a good data recovery program, if the drive spins that is. Get data back is good too.

 

[SP33Demon]

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This is karma's way of saying, go out and buy them now.

We do own an extremely large portion of it, the loss is the time ripping/encoding/organizing it.

Note that I said it was all done by us, not downloaded.

Dumbass.

Viper GTS

Riiiiight. You just contradicted yourself there: you claim that nothing was downloaded, yet say "we own an extremely large portion of it". Hence the other small "portion", you do not own. So where did the other part of the "portion" come from if you don't own it?

Edit: "Dumbass."

 

[PowerMacG5]

This is why I love setups like RAID 5.

 

[gistech1978]

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Savij
Yeah, I had that happen to the 40gig on my file server a few years back. I've still got the drive around here somewhere, but the scratching and clicking sound leaves me little hope...

Stick it in the freezer, mount it, recover the data before it thaws.

ive heard of doing that.
ive also heard if you slam it flat on the ground it can help too.

but neither worked for the last dead hdd.

 

[PowerMacG5]

Originally posted by: gistech1978

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Savij
Yeah, I had that happen to the 40gig on my file server a few years back. I've still got the drive around here somewhere, but the scratching and clicking sound leaves me little hope...

Stick it in the freezer, mount it, recover the data before it thaws.

ive heard of doing that.
ive also heard if you slam it flat on the ground it can help too.

but neither worked for the last dead hdd.

If you seriously took a HDD, and slammed it onto the ground in the hopes of recovering data, you should be slammed across the head.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: SP33Demon

Originally posted by: Viper GTS

Originally posted by: SP33Demon
This is karma's way of saying, go out and buy them now.

We do own an extremely large portion of it, the loss is the time ripping/encoding/organizing it.

Note that I said it was all done by us, not downloaded.

Dumbass.

Viper GTS

Riiiiight. You just contradicted yourself there: you claim that nothing was downloaded, yet say "we own an extremely large portion of it". Hence the other small "portion", you do not own. So where did the other part of the "portion" come from if you don't own it?

None of it was downloaded.

We ripped/encoded all of it ourself straight from the original media.

Viper GTS

 

[gistech1978]

Originally posted by: Marauder911

Originally posted by: gistech1978

Originally posted by: Jzero

Originally posted by: Savij
Yeah, I had that happen to the 40gig on my file server a few years back. I've still got the drive around here somewhere, but the scratching and clicking sound leaves me little hope...

Stick it in the freezer, mount it, recover the data before it thaws.

ive heard of doing that.
ive also heard if you slam it flat on the ground it can help too.

but neither worked for the last dead hdd.

If you seriously took a HDD, and slammed it onto the ground in the hopes of recovering data, you should be slammed across the head.

well, i was willing to try anything. it obviously wasnt working to begin with.
i read it on a page somewhere.
and chill out, hardass, its my hard drive and if i wanted to slam it on the ground, i can.

 

[mugs]

The drive is still under warranty, right? Maybe they can fix it.

 

[apac]

1 word: Raid.

 

[Bootprint]

Originally posted by: mugs
The drive is still under warranty, right? Maybe they can fix it.

Warranties don't cover the data.

 

[Booster]

I think I'm going to be sick

IMO what may first seem like a crappy incident might in fact turn out to be beneficial. It wasn't that much long ago that I got rid of my old music and video recordings. While many people prefer to keep their old stuff, I'm a different kind - I like to get rid of old things so they don't remind me of the past. I can't describe what a relief it was when I, so to speak, flushed all that crap down the drain. Just think, is it a quality material? It's that popular pop culture, stuff for not very demanding people that appeals to simplest emotions and mechanisms. It may be actually more progressive to get rid of that useless media (just IMHO).

 

[Doggiedog]

Was it a Maxtor?

I had my 120Gb archive drive fail on me completely. Took all my files with it.

 

[kranky]

Originally posted by: Booster

My roommate just told me that a 200 GB drive in one of our servers died, taking with it 85% of our media collection (movies & music).

How do you people always have HDs fail on you? I've never seen a single hard drive fail anywhere and never even heard about it (well, except this forum, of course).

Are you kidding? EVERY HD will fail. Some do it sooner than others.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Bootprint

Originally posted by: mugs
The drive is still under warranty, right? Maybe they can fix it.

Warranties don't cover the data.

He didn't say the data was corrupted, it could be a mechanical problem. I don't know how they handle stuff like this, but if they repair it instead of replacing it, his data could still be there.

 

[Xionide]

My condolences