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And if he's anything like me the small drives don't cut it. So wombraider is 12. Also what is a warranty? And speaking of them I'm going to assume your seagate one is out of time if not however once youve done all this go to their website fill out this form print it out and mail your freeagent to them and they will give you a brand new one and extend the warranty for I think another year maybe two. They actually offer a very good service they're just more expensive than i'd like.
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how the fuck do you figure a shitload of data stored on one big drive is safer than spreading it across multiples?
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WombRaider Wrote:how the fuck do you figure a shitload of data stored on one big drive is safer
Still strawman. It's cheaper like buying a 9800 to overclock it. I carry my save games on both drive's and if I lose anything to drive failure its not a big deal because I don't have anything i can't redownload. Also less power usage I would think.
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i've used computers my entire life (12 years apparently) and never had a problem.
my brother thinks like you, and always buys the big drives
his shit breaks all the time.
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And I have never had a big drive break. My portable freeagent was broken once because it was dropped other than that my big desktop drive has yet to break.
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WombRaider Wrote:
i've used computers my entire life (12 years apparently) and never had a problem.
my brother thinks like you, and always buys the big drives
his shit breaks all the time.
Small drives have the exact same failure rate as larger ones and dollar to gigabyte they are a lot cheaper to use as storage.
For a terabyte and a half of storage it is cheaper to buy two 1.5tb drives and raid them together for stability than to buy a bunch of 200 gig drives or whatever you are implying people should do.
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WombRaider Wrote:how the fuck do you figure a shitload of data stored on one big drive is safer than spreading it across multiples?
I use to have a RAID set up on my machine until the array kept breaking and I added more internal hardware...
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R-Studio NTFS works really well. Saved my ass twice and well worth the $50 if you're out of options/desperate.
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calculon Wrote:R-Studio NTFS works really well. Saved my ass twice and well worth the $50 if you're out of options/desperate.
Will this recover a drive that has locked itself into a failsafe mode?
Here's my situation:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news...11-failing
Quote:A new self-bricking feature apparently resides in faulty firmware microcode which will rear its ugly head sometime at boot detection. Essentially the drive will be working as normal for a while, then - out of the blue - it'll brick itself to death. The next time you reboot your computer the drive will simply lock itself up as a failsafe and won't be detected by the BIOS. In other words, there's power, spin-up, but no detection to enable booting.
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Yeesh, that sounds ugly. I'm not entirely sure that R-Studio will work in this case. I've used it in scenarios where the disk was still recognized in BIOS, but the volume wasn't readable in Windows. Disks that showed as Foreign in Disk Management, but couldn't be Imported. (usually with cartridge-mounted IDE drives, and USB enclosures that got hosed)
But it sounds like your hardware may actually be damaged (or irrevocably locked) if the BIOS won't see it. I've never been able to save data from a drive that a BIOS can't see. I would try plugging it into another computer/different Mobo just to be sure.
