crappyjones123 Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 last night i restarted my computer and windows said something happened and started to run chkdsk on a drive. i let it run and left the office. this morning when i can back and logged into windows, i was welcomed with a lovely sight showing 3 of my drives had been wiped by chkdsk...good going xp. ive googled this issue and it seems to be quite common with external drives. have tried 3 recovery softwares with no results. yall have any suggestions or did i just lose 3tb of media Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grawk Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 just rerip the cds... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 That's a lot of porn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 just rerip the cds... they werent cds. 750gb of movies from high school etc. little over a tb of video from boston. rest music. music i dont care for...i cant get it all back again in a week. the other stuff has me bummed. might end up paying for some professional recovery service to get back the videos. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted December 5, 2009 Report Share Posted December 5, 2009 you need to get a online backup service Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grahame Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 CJ discovers meaning of Single Point of Failure - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia And the statement "There are two types of drives; Those that have failed, and this that have yet to fail" Your hard disk is more likely to fail than you think. How to Tell When Your Hard Drive is Going to Fail - Stepcase Lifehack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 you need to get a online backup service i dont even what to know how much online backup would cost for 20+ tb... will start buying back up drives and throwing them in the closet sad that the drives filled with expendable stuff didnt die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guzziguy Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Sad, but predictable. I'm a big believer in Murphy's Law. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nebby Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 I personally use a WHS setup to mirror my data. Works quite well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 with that much data it's stupid to be spreading it over multiple single drives, at least setup a server w/ a raid 5 or 6 array. it's no replacement for real backups but will protect against drive failures. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 todd, multiple servers would require at least a two fold increase in hardware (non hard drive hardware). thats space i dont have but at this point i might as well just do that and have giant raid arrays sitting here. lame ass newegg pumped the prices of the 2tb drives back to 200 will deal with all this after the 9th. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TC_Shadow Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 professional data recovery - expensive but if the data is worth the money Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dusty Chalk Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 i dont even what to know how much online backup would cost for 20+ tb... will start buying back up drives and throwing them in the closet sad that the drives filled with expendable stuff didnt die.20+ Tb? Jesus Christ, man, you ought to invest in tape backup, or at least a blu-ray burner. The thing about hard drive backups is, you need to spin them up every once in a while. Otherwise they may not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Duggeh Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 20tb? Madness. What the christ are you storing? Every TV series download on PirateBay? The entire BBC archive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 most if not all hollywood movies from 1995 onwards. 38 complete tv series. roughly 7tb (now 6tb) of music. 1 tb is taken up by math "research" that i have long abandoned. ive heard maybe 800gb of all the music i have. if i had to venture a guess id say that roughly 30% of all video is 720p. 10% is 1080p or higher. vc1s of pirates of the caribbean trilogy and lotr trilogy alone are like 310gb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 20tb? Madness. What the christ are you storing? Every TV series download on PirateBay? The entire BBC archive? piratebay is bad. private trackers are how its supposed to be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aardvark baguette Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 redundant offsite backup for that amount of shit. If you want to sleep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
n_maher Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 Someone who is not willing to pay for anything is not willing to pay for anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deepak Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 most if not all hollywood movies from 1995 onwards. 38 complete tv series. roughly 7tb (now 6tb) of music. 1 tb is taken up by math "research" that i have long abandoned. ive heard maybe 800gb of all the music i have. if i had to venture a guess id say that roughly 30% of all video is 720p. 10% is 1080p or higher. vc1s of pirates of the caribbean trilogy and lotr trilogy alone are like 310gb. Jesus, that is an addiction. PA meetings? (piracy anonymous) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jinp6301 Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 why do you need that many movies? you can always buy (or download) them again at a later time Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 in the "piracy circles" there are seeders (people who host/share what they download) and then there are leechers (they just download and dont share with their peers). ive been seeding every since i got involved with the scene. it obviously will not make it ok with the people who have a problem with it but thats my side of the story. either way i will not change the minds of people whose moral compasses point due north (which is fine by me) so this is all i will say on this matter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shaizada Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 I would get a DROBO and load it up with some 2tb drives for the future. Automatic headache free backups. I use one exclusively for my iTunes lossless library. At 3 terabytes of lossless music right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crappyjones123 Posted December 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 dusty/todd/other hardware people - assuming i do raid 5, for purely storage purposes (speed has absolutely no bearing on what i am trying to do...the output will be bottlenecked by usb anyways) would i be better off with a desktop mobo or a server mobo. part of me wants to just build the simplest desktop possible in a big ass chassis and get raid cards which would increase the price of the total project by quite a bit. 1. regular desktop mobo with craploads of sata ports. 2. server mobo with craploads of sata ports. 3. el cheapo rig with some raid controller. thoughts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penger Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 All I remember is the price quote for disk recovery on my 500gb WD harddrive 2 years ago was in the 1 grand range... Oh and FWIW some desktop mobos come with raid controllers so you don't have to buy another pci based one, which can be expensive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tkam Posted December 6, 2009 Report Share Posted December 6, 2009 a desktop board is fine, you could use the on-board sata and software raid and/or additional raid cards. really depends on how many drives you have. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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