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A week ago I posted that my backup network drive was failing. I have now bought and installed a replacement NAS (network attached storage) drive.

Now it is working I have done my usual backup procedure to copy all my pictures and other important stuff to the new drive. half way through the backup fails and I notice an odd whining noise from the computer. My E: drive (my PC's second hard drive) has disappeared along with all my photos that were stored on the relatively new Seagate 500 GB drive inside my computer.

After a reboot the drive reappears and I can carry on the backup but the bios at boot time and later windows tell me that the SMART status of the drive is 'BAD'. The restarted backup is at about 75% now. I do have a second backup on USB HDD so I'm not too concerned but 2 disk failures within a week is still worrying.

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Bad things seem to happen in threes so I'm wondering what is still to come.

Just thought I'd post this a reminder to backup sooner rather than later!
 
I had 2 drives in my NAS die within a week - 1.2TB of data lost as it was running RAID 5. Pretty gutting really. Luckily everything important was backed up elsewhere as well.

I know a lot of people that have lost a lot of stuff (especially irreplaceable photos) due to lack of backup so would agree with you 100% - get it backed up folks!!
 
Since losing a HDD at work containing 250Gb of vital information with no back up and having to pay £500 +VAT to get it recovered I can't advocate backing up enough! I now back up my home Mac to two external drives once a week and store one of them "off site". Belt and braces :thumbs:
 
Seagate 'seatools' confirm it has problems so I'll have to warranty return it. As I want to keep a drive for photos in my PC I've had to order yet another hard drive. I've never had a Seagate drive fail on me before. The only other brand that I've never had a failure with is Samsung - so I've just ordered a 1TB Samsung drive to go in when I pull the 500Gb Seagate for return. Grrr!
 
I have an external hard drive to store all my photos on and I backup those photos to DVD's.

I have had 2 maxtor 500gb drives and both have failed in the first few weeks - no data could be recovered. Luckily, I could access the data on the backup DVD's and load it back on to a new hard drive. I have had no problem with my newest drive (Packard Bell).

......and one of the maxtor's had a trojan on (this was bought from new from a well known computer store) - it wasn't a false positive either :bang:
 
Grendel said:
Since losing a HDD at work containing 250Gb of vital information with no back up and having to pay £500 +VAT to get it recovered I can't advocate backing up enough! I now back up my home Mac to two external drives once a week and store one of them "off site". Belt and braces :thumbs:
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Off-site backup is usually overlooked by most folks. It's all nice that the data is backed up onto multiple drives, but if they're within the same premises and the worst happens... :'(
 
I've got a 500 GB external HD but burn everything that goes on there onto DVD also so that I have two different types of backup. It's worth the time and effort.
 
mmm - just brought 2 x 1TB drives for backup - one will be a copy of the data in my house the other a copy of all my work but kept at work (updated every few weeks), all in addition to cd/dvd's of each set of photos - not a foolproof backup solution but a step in the right direction
 
Couldn't agree more about backing up. I stupidly had a play around in BIOS and changed the SATA setting of the additional (apparently non used) drives to see if I could speed things up. Turns out my external drive with 7 years of data became corrupted at a file system level which is often classed as being pretty much unrecoverable.

It was partitioned previously and data recovery software couldn't even read the drive! After repartitioning and formatting so that data recovery software could actually read the drive nothing could be recovered - I was gutted as the data was still there as the readings showed the GB's of data still being used but just couldn't get to it.

Fortunately, I found only one piece of backup software which actually managed to not only recovery it, but recreated the entire folder structure and all original file names which is unsual as you normally only get some sort of numbered reference as file names when recovering. My new back up system makes Cape Canaveral's control centre look like a children's toy! hehe
 
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