Re: Utterly Gutted

["Neil Fuller" <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chris

This is really sh1tty luck but it's something to learn from!

I have about 300 gigs of data across 2 drives. I know it's small when
compared to some but as with you, some of the data (mainly pictures of the
kids) are priceless.

I have a mirror of the data on another machine although that wouldn't help
if the house burnt down or the gear was stolen. So, I also have 2 drives in
the local banks deposit box. I copy the data to another pair of drives on a
6 monthly rotation and swap them with the ones in the deposit box. Costs me
a few quid for the year plus about £15 per access.

I guess I could get some kind of big streamer but last time I looked, they
cost 000's!

How about some kind of data retrieval service, although that could be 2nd
mortgage time!)

HTH

Regards

Neil


----- Original Message -----
From: "Christopher Purves" <CHRIS_PURVES@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 29, 2004 8:59 PM
Subject: [ukha_d] Utterly Gutted


> Hi All,
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> Just thought I would share this tale of woe with you so some of you
don't
make the mistakes I did......
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> I had build a raid 5 system around the promise sx6000 hardware raid
card
with 6 x superstore caddies (not cheap by any stretch of the imagination)
thinking this would keep my data safe. One of the drives failed yesterday -
I didn't panic - put in a replacement - the array rebuilt itself and all
the
lights went green. Rebooted XP and nothing..... the array appeared as
un-partitioned space. All the data is gone including all our photos
(including those of my newborn daughter) / videos all our documents. The
500
albums I ripped and god knows what else.
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> I just wanted everyone who has raid setup and thinks they are in any
way
safe to get out there by the DVD-r's and get backing up - Raid as far as I
can see is worthless. The one time I needed it it failed.
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> Chris (Gutted)
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