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Hard Drives

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chriscollins

Whew... I bought a Drobo S and 5 1 Terabyte drives from newegg about a week ago, due to a RAID disaster that almost made me lose all of my 4 year olds pictures as well as 900 Gig of FLAC files I ripped and tagged over about a three year period from my personal CD collection.

Long story short, I am so glad that was a week ago. With that flood, you can't even buy more than 1 hard drive at a time anymore from newegg or amazon.

I need 6 for work. Guess I will use six different emails for six newegg orders... What a pain. I could understand a limit of 2, but 1 on every single model... It is the same on every tech site I have been to and the prices are rising rapidly.

You automation guys may want to grab a couple of extra for the shelf. Forecasts say this is going to be 6 months or greater as a 'shortage'.
 
You are lucky you still got your files.I had to send my drive to a Data recovery company in Texas a couple years age.They able to save all my files to a new WD drive.It cost a kings ransom but I learn a lesson to backup everything.Ok why is there a drive shortage.I never purchased from Newegg .My friends have.Last night I picked up A 3.0 TB WD External at Walmart for $150.the shelves were fully stock.but I did not see any internal drives.
 
Hadn't realized that there was a hard drive availability issue until reading this post and letting Google do the work.

I recently narrowly avoided a home/office data loss issue. The lesson - backup and then backup again elsewhere.

A nearby lightening strike took out two of three computers (plus TV, etc.). I use SyncToy to automatically and daily keep copies of document/music/photo files on at least two computers, plus an "off-site" NAS in the unattached shed which automatically runs monthly on each machine. Unfortunately, the lost laptop was synced with the lost desktop. Fortunately the shed-drive got me back to within 3 weeks of being current on the laptop, and the RAID drives in the desktop where still good which when plugged in to a new desktop got me back to current on all.

Whew!
 
I only had my data, because I have a backup of my backup of my RAID.

I had...

RAID corrupted.

Backup drive died during restore.

Glad I keep another backup. I play it pretty safe with data. I've got the DROBO set on 2 drive redundancy, so I can lose two and keep going... PLUS, I back it up to my NAS. It's my 'new' strategy.
 
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