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Originally Posted by Stitchawl
Better make a backup of that backup, Pooh...
I've got a 3 terabyte Buffalo drive that one day last month just decided to stop working. No data corruption... It just won't spin. The drive inside the case is a Seagate device, which I sent to Seagate to see if they could repair it. No such luck. The most they could do is data recovery for $600.00. Same results sending the drive to a place in Bangkok, but only $500 for them. I'm going to try changing the board (that will only set me back $50) and keep my fingers crossed. I thought it would be possible to 'rebuild' the drive, changing the platters into a new case, but as explained to me by both outfits, that's almost as difficult as brain surgery and would cost three times as much...
This is the first and only drive that I've had in twenty years to go south on me.
The only saving grace is that this drive, with the exception of some guitar tutorial Youtube videos, is all backup of backup. If changing the board doesn't bring it back to life, I will perform a 'magnet-ectomy' and add the super magnets to my collection.
Stitchawl
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Thanks for the warning! Fortunately it's not my only backup - I'm too paranoid/possessive of my ebooks for that.