This is a sore spot for me. I've been buying expensive hard drives, large capacity drives, and I'm geting LOTS of failures of drives, usually less than 9 months after purchase.
Let's define large drives: 500Gigs and higher.
Doesn't seem to matter whta brand or technology or whether they are in an external enclosure or sold as a bare drive, I'm just having tons of hard drive failures. I just lost Tuesday dealing with a SATA Seagate 500 gig drive in failure. The good thing was the night before i bought a 1.5 Terrabye drive external but I had a different application planned for that. Right now it's my fail-over drive.
Look, we rely on our equipment. Thinsg ae going to fail. Give it time, it will. We're not immune, nothing is. We need to plan for the unfortunate eventuality that we're going to have to deal with catastrophic failure.
My suggestion: USB memory sticks are getting cheaper and larger. Depending on the exact nature of your shows, you should be able to store your entire showsonto a thumb drive. Backup your entire MyDMX directory since it my also have any custom profiles. Back up your shows and your stages. ALso have a back-up of MyDMX and any patches you need for it. Should soething crap out, you have a better chance of getting through it or not having such a bad disaster.
I've had 6 reputable brand name drives fail in the past year. It's really starting to suck and I'm sick of waiting for replacements(some have never come in...)
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