Today was supposed to be a good day, a day of a simple fix I had been meaning to apply, a day to relax afterward. Today though, has turned into the "day of hell" for me.
Many of you here know that I often expound on the need for backing up a system. Many of you know that employ an automated backup solution for the workstations in my home, all of which backup to a fileserver on-site.
I am about to tell you a tale of woe and bad luck.
oh boy :-?
Today brought hell.
Long story short, I ended up losing about 250 gig of data on my "media" drive
! that blows
I can't afford a tape backup solution for 1TB - who can? Why is it that the backup systems for the size of drives we have in our machines cost far more than what the machine and drives cost? What is a real solution?
bluray offers a solution, its coming down in price, ie here is a lg br burner for less than 150$, this Christmas I bet you they will be 79$ maybe lower
that nets you 50 GB per disk in dual layer (expensive as crap media) or 25 with a WORM disk (write once read many), those go for around 50 bucks for 15, which gets you ~375GB
its not cost effective yet, but this is its year for computer storage IMO
Also - what do ordinary people do? Do they just lose all of their memories and data and such and "oh well"?
if my father in law is any proof, then yes
Something else I wonder about - are these drives supposed to be running as hot as they are?
NO!
drives are traditionally free air, the idea behind the enclosures is that the enclosure acts a a heatsink, but fails
the darn things run hot in your pc with a fan blowing on them, putting them in a air isolated pocket of metal is one of my pet peeves, the best success I had with a enclosure was when I filled it with thermal epoxy, to bad that's a 40 gigger (be mindful of the breather hole lol)
So frustrated, so angry, so upset, so much time lost that I could use doing other things...
It will get better 