Driven to distraction by drive death by Dave Beedon

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30-NOV-2009

Driven to distraction by drive death

A few days ago my main data drive (Acomdata 1-Tbyte) died without warning. I had hoped
that the imminent Drive Death Announcement Circuit (IDDAC) would warn me of such a
calamity, but it must have died too. Thus no bells rang and no lights flashed to warn
me. No data was lost, as I back up data every day, and my back-up drive still works.

What to do? Another Acomdata drive was out of the question, so I looked at reviews of other brands.
(By the way, Amazon.com, the place I bought my Acomdata drives, no longer carries them.) I read
about Seagate, Western Digital, and Iomega. Every drive of the dozen or so I looked at had a couple
of bad reviews, but the Seagate "FreeAgent Go" had a ton of good reviews, so I bought it. (It's the
small drive pictured.) In addition, it has only one cord, simplifying set-up.

Clockwise from top: the dead Acomdata drive holding all my data, the functioning Acomdata back-up
drive holding all my data, and the cute little Seagate drive now also holding all my data.

I love the pattern of lights on the new drive.
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zonedout		17-Mar-2011 05:46
Got a 1 TB Seagate for my external. So far so good.

Guest		07-Dec-2009 12:37
It won't be long till we see affordable, 16TB external and internal drives. I have an extra 1TB internal drive and a 2TB Western Digital external drive. So far, so good.

Guest		03-Dec-2009 17:35
I've had a few drives fail over the years...fortunately I had backup for most oif it!

Lee G		03-Dec-2009 01:41
2 thumbs up for Seagate drives. I've used them for years and have not had any problems.

1moremile		02-Dec-2009 22:24
And some day you'll look back at this and laugh at how huge it is.

exzim		02-Dec-2009 20:55
Disc size is one of the most amazing advances in technology. In the mid 80's a company I worked for sold a 10 MB, yes 10 Megabyte drive to a broadcaster to store still frame broadcast images. It was the size of a desk, took four people to carry it, and took over 5 minutes to spin up to operatingspeed

jCross		02-Dec-2009 02:37
Buy two, they're cheap! I still wish they had blinky lights rather than the slowly pulsating glow.

Jason Anderson		02-Dec-2009 01:20
They just keeps getting smaller. I'm marvelling at the fact that I have a combined 1 Terabyte plus of free storage space at my disposal. 250MB hard drives seem like yesterday... Whoops, make that 982 GB of free storage. Er, 979...

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