------------------------------------------------------------------------ A poll associated with this post was created, to vote and see the results, please visit http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Question: How often do you have hard drive failures of your music server? - 1 or more a year - 2 or more in mutliple years - Never - All the time ------------------------------------------------------------------------
So far I've never had a hard drive fail on my own PC. I have the occassional one fail at work, but we're talking 200+ PC's over an 8 year period. I would never say never :-), but it isn't often. That said, I never rely on the USB drives that come with a hard drive installed. I think that's asking for failures and if they do you you have to send them off to retrieve the data. I prefer the drive enclosures that you can install your own drive in or the multi bay units that you install your own drives in. BTW, so far out of the 6 or so hard drive failures I've had, sticking the drive in the freezer and then running it long enough to get the data off has worked on all but one so far. I did have to go so far as to freeze one in a block of ice, but I did get eveything off of it. One of the coolest devices to date is the BlacX. It come in USB, FireWire and eSATA. It's reasonable, easy to use and you don't need a holder for your drive. Just drop a drive in like a slice of bread and bingo, you can read or write to it. http://www.thermaltakeusa.com/Product.aspx?S=1268&ID=1642 Have a great night, Howard -- Howard Passman Sorry slow to respond. I don't spend that much time online. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Howard Passman's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=16674 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=50299 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
