Re: OT Data Recovery

[Todd Elliott <toddbert@gmail.com>]

I use 'crashplan' for offsite backups, and can recommend it-- they offer a service where they ship you a hard drive, and you seed your own online backup with it; they have no throttling or storage limit (unlike carbonite). Worth the dough for the peace of mind.

T

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:29 AM, Sylvain Poitras <sylvain.trombone@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 12:20 PM, Kevin Cheli-Colando <billowhead@gmail.com> wrote:

Seriously though, yes, I will probably think about buying four or five
hard drives at a time at this point.

Depending on the nature of the files, I'd suggest looking into online storage.  Let someone else worry about the redundancy...

There is only one (almost) permanent digital storage solution that I'm aware of and it's not yet commercially available (nor is it very pragmatic for the home user): 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010588/hitachi-targets-2015-for-glass-based-data-storage-that-lasts-100-million-years.html

You should assume that everything else will fail.  (Paper still works, though)

I've had some success with a software called DiskWarrior on OS X, but there are so many ways in which a hard drive can fail...  YMMV

Sylvain 

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