Subject: Re: Mac Data Recovery
From: Michael Graeve (michaelgraeve@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 15:44:54 EDT
Prosoft Engineering have a data recovery software, which may be worth
looking into. I haven't tried it, but have a look at:
It may also be a good time to look at archiving and data backup strategies
for your future setup. I found a $10 e-book useful to get some of the issues
and options sorted out, although I devised a quite different strategy in the
end.
www.takecontrolbooks.com/backup-macosx.html
Best of luck. I lost my data two years ago, so I know how it feels. (Brand
new i-book went dead after two months, backed up onto brother in law's
powerbook in order to have my motherboard replaced, and then his powerbook
also died. Always back up the backup backing up the backup!)
Best,
Michael Graeve
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From: Chris Leon <chrisleon@videotron.ca>
Reply-To: cec-conference@concordia.ca
To: cec-conference@concordia.ca
Subject: Re: Mac Data Recovery
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:09:10 -0400
Hello LaCie lovers,
I have used Lacie drives for 8 years and have had the ports on one of them
burn out. Fortunately the data was not affected but I had to replace the
casing. Nevertheless this can be a real issue when recording live audio as I
often do.
My second Lacie drive (which had both 800 and 400 ports) also had the 400
ports burn out and is now only functional via the 800 port.
A composer friend of mine also had his ports burn out and later switched to
using Glyph drives after another one of his Lacie hard drives inexplicably
died; in this case the data could not be retrieved.
I should note that we are experienced users and understand how to dismount
and mount external drives.
Of course, no drive is fully reliable and I would continue to buy LaCie (for
storage purposes only) for the simple reason that it is cheaper than Glyph
for example. The lower cost would allow me to buy 2 LaCie drives for the
price of 1 Glyph and backup up to both drives simultaneously, a backup of
the backup. I would later backup to DVD as well.
But using a Lacie for a live concert recording is like riding a bicycle
without a helmet. I would use the internal drive on the computer while
recording (if it has enough space) and transfer to the LaCie after recording
is finished.
The web is loaded with issues concerning Lacie drives. Just type in LaCie
+unreliable if Google. I'm sure other drives also have issues but my
experience lies with LaCie.
for example:
http://www.dataclinic.co.uk/data-recovery-lacie-big-external-disk.htm
Best
Chris
On 7-Sep-06, at 12:27 AM, John Wynne wrote:
>On 6/9/06 12:58, "Chris Leon" <chrisleon@videotron.ca> wrote:
>
>>La Cie external firewire drives are very unreliable...
>>
>Really? Is that other people’s opinion/experience? I’ve been using them
>for years with no problem (touch wood) and have only ever heard good things
>about them. I have 4!
>
> John Wynne
>
>
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