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Adventures in Data Recovery

August 22, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

A couple of years ago, an associate of the Ur-Guru’s in Europe bought a 1 Tb Buffalo DriveStation Duo to back up his business data. Last week it stopped working. “I've been using it in a RAID 1 array for the past two years, and it's just failed,” he wrote. “Three different Windows PCs here see it as unallocated space.” Bad news. And while Buffalo offered to replace the hardware, since the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, External Drives, RAID Tagged With: Active@ UnDelete, Buffalo, Maxtor, reminder

Fireproof Backups

June 14, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Making your hard drives more secure seems to be the trendy thing to do these days. Within the past couple of months, I've been contacted about two similar products for protecting your external hard drives from fire and water—not to mention spilled coffee. I haven’t had the chance to test either product myself, so I can’t give you a firsthand account, but it seemed worth mentioning them in case … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Drives, Guest Bloggers Tagged With: Brett Callow, Chuck Fetta, disaster recovery, fireproof, Genie, ioSafe, ioSafe Solo, LinkedIn, MediaVault, Office Furniture Warehouse, onsite, Seagate, Ur-Guru

Hopped-Up Rebit Increases Cuteness Quotient

May 9, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

Rebit sells itself on ease of use, but the most inescapable characteristic of this “ridiculously simple” backup device for Windows is cuteness. How can even the most technophobic Windows user feel threatened by that cute little frog? And look at the announcements you get if you’re a backup blogger or tech columnist: “Rebit to Donate to SavetheFrogs.com. […] Rebit will celebrate international “Save … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Backup Devices, External Drives Tagged With: neverfull, Rebit, reminder, SavetheFrogs.com, Seagate

We Can Rebuild It (RTFM)

April 23, 2009 by Sallie Goetsch Leave a Comment

About a month ago, a friend called to tell me her computer had died and to ask whether it would be possible to save the data. (No, she didn’t have any backups.) I said it would depend on whether her hard drive had failed, and asked her to describe just what had happened. Reassured that there were no awful clicking, clanking, or grinding noises coming from the machine, I said it might be possible … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Data Recovery, External Drives, Hardware Failure Tagged With: drive enclosures, reminder, SATA, Western Digital Caviar

Quadruple the Backup from Buffalo

December 23, 2008 by Sallie Goetsch 3 Comments

Back in 2007, my BFF Jay Pechek sent me a bunch of Maxtor drives. Maxtor’s external hard drives are supposed to have a 5-year warranty, but there’s a little trick with this Free Stuff I get from PR people. When you don’t actually buy something, and don’t have a receipt, you can’t make use of the warranty in the ordinary way. Jay said “I’m your warranty; if anything goes wrong, call me.” Okay, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: External Drives, RAID Tagged With: Buffalo, Maxtor, RAID, reminder

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