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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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I use to be a Seagate only guy, until they released the 7200.11. Every 7200.11 drive I have has failed me within months of going into service. Apparently it was an issue in the ROM software, and because of that, they quickly released the 7200.12. Now I only use Western Digital and haven't had one fail me yet.
You name it, i've had it fail on me. I still stick with Seagate as overall I've had better results.

The biggest one I am angry about was when around last year at this time, I was working on a video project and there was this big dog staying at my house(in-laws dog). As I'm reaching to save the drive, the dog things I'm reaching to pet him so he flips around and knocks the drive off the table. LIVE.... dead drive. Mother f....... 500 gigs of data LOST. WEstern Digital. but when you have a spinning drive fall, that is gonna cause failures too.

The rest have been short life, big drive, the Seagate expects me to spend $20 to ship my replacement drive.

I don't think it's just ROMS though, I think we're dealing with overall back workmanship and cheap Chinese production.
You mean over-priced flash drives?

That's what those are, just so you're aware. And they aren't exactly as reliable as regular flash-type drives since they aren't good for high levels of constant access. Best for more of a large storage and frequently read situation rather than read/write. My experiences with them have been less than acceptable.

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