Should have stuck with Maxtor!!

briceman said:
I think the USB2 connection is screwy, cause it'll go on and off in recognizing it if I wiggle the usb plug.
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It sounds like you might have a short in your USB plug connection. I have this problem in my Dell laptop and it drives me crazy. Have you tried the hard drive with a different PC?
 
I love Seagate as well, however the warranty does me no good if I lose all my data. After data loss I tend to not really want the replacement unit!
 
No company warranties data loss , but it does say something about a company that is willing to stand behind their product for 5 years
 
I have a maxtor that's so ghetto.

it has a short where the powercable connects in the back, so the drive itself is hidden under a shelf, with about a pound of gaff tape and 3 or 4 zip ties holding the chord at just that right place and then the whole arangement is gaffed to the desk so that nothing moves and breaks the power connection.

I'm glad its hidden.

I also have a lacie which I love because it has firewire 2 usb2 and firewire hubs and becausse if that I was finally able to figure out a way that I could get both ext hard drives + my ipod + a DV camera all hooked up and working in a way weher FCP would recognize all of them.

But both work great excpet for the short in the maxtor power connector which I think may be from improper use ( it used to get crushed against the wall at the bacl of my desk-- leson learned)
 
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I know this one is a bit obvious, but we are allready on page 3 and no one has sugested this yet??!!

You have tried another USB cable haven't you?


- Mikko
 
when i lost everything i tried a bunch of programs and the closest i came to getting some of it back was when I reformatted the drive and then used a program that can unformat and that gave me back some of my stuff which was all foley libraries. All the data recovery programs could not recover anything nor read the disks at all. Some of them took days to go through the disk and fail.
The program that finally worked was some little no name free thing i found searching for format recovery programs.
 
Well, as long as you are doing no further damage to the HD, data recovery is probably a last resort. But it's good to know it's out there. We had MOST of the raw data and an older version of the edit. We would have needed to rerecord much of our foley and ADR as well as the few visual special effects we had. It would have set us back a couple of months at least. As it was we only lost about 2 weeks with the turn around. (And it's finished now :thumbsup:)
 
FWIW, The life of hard drives are measured by a statistic known as MTBF (mean time between failure).

Everyone has a favorite hard drive brand and one they despise. I use LaCie drives and have done so since 1999. I've had 3 drives fail in that time (out of 9). The earlier LaCie's used IBM drives inside, but (apparently) that has changed.

The bottom line is that ALL hard drives will fail... eventually.
 
Hooray for Raid. A friend of mine that runs a studio said that at the end of the day if you don't have it backed up in two different locations you don't have it at all
 
I've been feeling the need to back up more in NY, because I take my laptop with me sometimes and I'm like -- WTF would I do if someone stold my laptop while I was getting my print form the printer at Kinko's or if someone mugged me and a film or a script was only on there !!!!
 
I have three drives and they are almost all maxed out with different data because I am poor :(

I do try to back up to DVD's when I finish a project -- I have to because I don't have room for the next one. I thinnk Lyons has a good system. I think he just makes a $200 investment each time he does a movie and buys a new drive soley dedicated top that movie and then retires that drive and plastic bags it and puts it on a shelf. $200 is a reasonable investment for such a thing but I just ain't got it right now in the Big Apple and all. I think the one new hardrive per project plus DVD backup would be pretty good.

I know some people move on from films and want to save only the finshed edited master, but I try to back up the whole project on DVD so I could tinker with it again if I ever needed to.
 
I do that too... I have two shorts on one drive though... but it's not used anymore... I've only done two shorts personally... One Step Ahead, and A Price Too High.
 
I use a dedicated drive for the project. I have another external HD I use as backup till the project is done. I also copy all the files (data and fcp) as raw data onto DVDs, it took about 45 for my current project but I can always reload those into a hard drive to resurrect a project if needed.
 
I wrote a program that automatically (scheduled) takes whatever I drop into a designated directory, ZIPs it up, and FTPs it to my server in Pittsburgh.

:)
 
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