Thanks for the replies. I do have removable cages on most my computers. I even have a Linux box for back-ups and I back-up to a portable most nights. Call me paranoid but just before going away for a few days recently I spent literally five minutes trawling 17meg of code, gfx and 3d models in my ongoing project determining what I would class as "essential". Believe or not out of this 17meg I picked x files, zipped them up and the archive fit on a floppy
This floppy went in my sock draw (no kidding!). It has saved the day. While waiting to hear the fate of the drive I've worked on aspects of my project that I had been putting-off, so as not to duplicate effort. In the process though I have had to solve many of the same problems so all told I'm maybe a week behind from where I expected to be today. I've still (possibly, read on) lost shed loads of various tinkerings but at least I'm not suicidal over it
So now your wondering what with all these comp's, networked and all, why or why had I not backed-up more of the drive? The drive bay's are useless if all your drives are filled with various versions of Linux. The drive that failed was my biggest drive and there never is enough space to do a full back-up elsewhere. But partly it comes down to laziness and timing. Mostly it comes down to noise. Yeah, I code in (almost) complete silence. Sometimes I will listen to music but mostly it's wasted on me because when I code I simply don't hear it. But noisy computers are another thing, they drive me up the wall. So after returning from Amsterdam in a nice relaxed mood, for nearly 3 weeks I only backed-up to the same drive (duh and double duh :roll: ). I keep planning to get an mini-itx board to build a silent sever, maybe now I will. So let this be a lesson to others, don't go to Amsterdam 8O
I can't divulge what's happening with the drive at the moment because it's about to turn very ugly. But I will tell you that the company I'm dealing with now claim to have recovered all of my data (ie, the whole drive). I'll leave you to guess why I am not exactly thrilled about this.
But I digress, back to the point: yep, any and all drives can fail. It's just that so many of these drives have failed and IBM have never publicly admitted any problem, let alone making sure that anyone using one *knows* that there could be a problem. The fact that they sold-off the drives division may just be a hint at how bad the problems are. But I could be wrong, decide for yourself, at least read the many many posting on the link above.
didnt lose any data tho', i swapped drives just before it went completely. 8O
