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Jan. 20th, 2008 | 06:36 pm
location: 15206
mood: annoyed annoyed
music: LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great

I keep active archives of video files--both raw footage and also the completed clips.  Well, I should have written that sentence in past tense, because the Western Digital MyBook (500-Gbyte drive in an external USB enclosure) I kept the archive on has failed and will not spin up.  The tell-tale sign of its absolute failure is the Click of Death.

I don't recall exactly how long I've had it but it seems like only a year or so.  I'm not very happy right now because I hadn't made long-term archives of the material on the drives, so at the very least it would be a huge pain to recreate by grabbing the original video again.  Sigh.

I removed the cover and found nothing interesting (obviously) inside.  I put the drive in the freezer (in a plastic bag) for several days (!)--I'm not sure what I was hoping for, but when it came back to room temperature the click was still there.  Banging on the drive also didn't help.  (Of course it should only have hurt!)  I was just trying to get it to spin up once more but it seems that will not occur.

I guess it's finally time to use RAID at home.

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from: anonymous
date: Jan. 21st, 2008 01:42 am (UTC)
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Heh, I just purchased a WD portable USB drive two days ago. I'm only using it as an off-site backup of my hard drive, but I hope it lasts a little longer than yours did. Maybe this explains why the WD drive was so much cheaper than the others I compared!

-- Noise

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Backups!

from: anonymous
date: Mar. 9th, 2008 02:42 am (UTC)
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Need I say more? ;)

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Mingo, Blanda, Spargelkohl, etc.

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from: [info]spargelkohl
date: Mar. 9th, 2008 10:20 pm (UTC)
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Umm.. backups. Yeah, nice concept. The problem is that backing up these extremely large raw video files surpasses any mechanism I have available to me at the moment.

You can be sure this problem figures in my current and future plans.

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