Hard Drive on a Bumpy Road

I have 2 x 1Tb drives.

Both are Seagate Barracuda's.

The Boot drive started showing up a S.M.A.R.T error although it seems to be working perfectly now it is itself predicting it will fail.

Seagate are cool they supply some diagnostic software which will give an error code and all the information to request a return and I already have got a replacement on order subject to the return of my 'defective' drive.

It has meant hiving off enough data to fit onto the remaining drive and installing an OS and the essential applications I need while the drive gets swapped out.

Trouble is it's taken longer to do that than the 3-5 days my fully working broken drive will take to be replaced.

I could 'ghost' my disks but when they are 1Tb in size I'd need another 2 drives just to keep the backups on.  Ah well, a good time to trim down and clear out some garbage I suppose.

Computers, eh?

First Straummy now Bouy. What's the world UK coming to?

I just had a 2gb drive go bad on me. It was a Western Digital under warranty and they shipped me a new one without hassle. I had backups, but all in all it took about 2 weeks of off-and-on frittering about to get everything shuffled about and restored.

I feel for ya.

Jonbouy


Ah well, a good time to trim down and clear out some garbage excess Am notes I suppose.

I tried a reformat using the /bapu qualifier and it said 'Am you sure?'.

And it's definitely broken now.

The good news is I've managed to compress my operations to one drive and the only thing I missed out was my ftp account log-ins, which I remembered just after I'd wiped the errant drive...

I maintained all my Sonar settings, Drum maps, track templates and all the other things I usually forget though.  I've also cleared out an untold amount of accumulated dross too, gigs and gigs of crap samples and loops I've had for ages and never heard.  All my important stuff is neatly backed-up now too.  So there's a plus side.

Now all I have to do is await the replacement.