I recently commented that one of my 3TB external drives went bad -
apparently it is the housing only, since the drive will run fine for
about 10 minutes and the just disappear from the computer. After it is
unplugged and off for a while, it works fine again (for another 10
minutes or so.) I have two backups of the drive - one is a few months
old and is offsite, the other is a local copy. WHen I realized the my
other 3TB drive had the *only* copy of several hundred images I got
worried and bought another drive. It took almost 2 days via USB 2 but I
now have two local copies again....
OK - the paranoia part: Turns out that the drive that has crapped out is
under warranty still. Yea! So I have to send it into Western Digital. I
can't wipe the drive (it would take a lot longer than 10 minutes to wipe
a 3TB drive) and I am hesitating about sending off a functional drive
(albeit in a bad enclosure) with virtually every photo I have taken in
the last 10 years on it (all 122,000 of them). We have everyting from
35mm film scans, MF scans, and every image form a digital camera since
my first 3.3mp Coolpix. All my snowflakes, all the stuff that is in my
book, full layouts of all the cards I used to make for art fairs (front
and back), all sorts of stuff. There is nothing embarrassing or
compromising on the drive - aside from the fact that 90+% of the photos
absolutely suck - but I balk at just blithely sending off all these
images to who knows where... Am I being unduly paranoid? (As opposed to
duly paranoid...)
Maybe I should just shell out a few bucks for a new enclosure or see if
I can salvage the drive and put in my PC....
Any thoughts?
Mark
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