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I had two HD 1.5 tb's go out on me this weekend. My Seagate GoFlex and my Western Digital.

Anyone know if Data Recovery is worth it?

How much?

Success rate?

Anyone have experience with Seagate GoFlex drives? It spins up. No clicking noise but cpu does not see it. Tried PC and mac. USB and Firewire 800. No good.

I'm thinking the case is messed up cause I hear the drive spinning so anyone that knows about this stuff... Your input will be valued.
 
geposted Sun 15 Jan 12 @ 2:06 pm
Seagate use to be very reliable until they made the goflex. I bought one and it crash in less than a month. Stick to the old versions of seagate or buy a Lacie hard drive (my new favorite). I still have old seagate hard drives that are over 7 years old so I don't know why they changed the formula; they certainly lost a customer because I will not trust another new seagate hd.

I used recovery software a very long time ago with mixed results. I suggest you go to cnet.com and check out the reviews on the recovery software. Try the demo first and if it works then you can buy it.

Western digital make the worst hard drives. A long time ago they crash on me all the time so I stopped using them and will never purchase another one. Since then I always keep 2 copies.

General rule - Always always back up, you will thank yourself when you lose, crash or damage a hard drive. Good luck.
 
The western digital was the backup HD.

Don't think recovery software will help me cause the computer can't see the HD.

That's why i'm looking at data recovery (clean room) places to get my music back
 
I had a 1t in my desktop fail and used Recover My Files from getdata.com. Not free, but worked. There is a free try so you can see if it finds your files.

Considering the computer doesn't see the drive I would first:
1. A new USB cable.
2. A different computer.
3. Crack open drive case and try bare drive on a different controller.

Good luck :)
 
I'm saving right now so I can get a WD recovered. Staples is telling anywhere from 500 to 2000!! I've watch a ton of videos on how to change it out and I'm confident I could it but its the clean room part that I don't have, lol!

Let us know what you do and how much
Huey
 
Say djcity,
As far as the Seagate GoFlex goes, the control board on the inside of the case may be bad. Had the same thing happen to me. Google how to break open the case, then you can connect the hard drive directly to your mother board. It worked for me!!!
 
Lost a Seagate 1.5 tb today, check the birthday this one was from 2007.
Usually change them every two years, this one was overdue.

Back up back up back up, then throw it on the ground as hard as you can before it returns the favor with your reputation.
 
 
sah602 wrote :
Say djcity,
As far as the Seagate GoFlex goes, the control board on the inside of the case may be bad. Had the same thing happen to me. Google how to break open the case, then you can connect the hard drive directly to your mother board. It worked for me!!!


That's what I'm thinking because there is no clicking from the drive and its spinning up.
How do I connect it to the motherboard?
 
i've had 2 hard drives fail over the last few years (home, not work drives - they get more abuse cause of the kids getting into things)
both times i has similar problems as originally described and both times i just got external drive enclosures and swapped them out and they worked fine after that - total cost each time less than $20.

but since then i've become a firm believer in double and triple redundancy - work drives and music are backed up in triplicate with the drives stored both in a fireproof safe and at the owner's home in another fireproof safe.

paranoid? hell yes!
 
How to connect to the motherboard???
 
djcity wrote :
I had two HD 1.5 tb's go out on me this weekend. My Seagate GoFlex and my Western Digital.

Anyone know if Data Recovery is worth it?

How much?

Success rate?

Anyone have experience with Seagate GoFlex drives? It spins up. No clicking noise but cpu does not see it. Tried PC and mac. USB and Firewire 800. No good.

I'm thinking the case is messed up cause I hear the drive spinning so anyone that knows about this stuff... Your input will be valued.


This is amost always the case with me. I go to radio shack and buy an external case and it has 100% of the time solved the problem. i got one from amazon for like $7... Worked great...Nothing to loose.
 
djcity,
when you pull the drive from the case it will have either a sata, or ide connection. It will connect just like an other internal hard drive in a desk top computer. Hope this helps. Had a Seagate that did the same to me, but once I got it out of the case, and in my pc, all the data was there and there was no problem with the drive.
 
I cracked the case open and pulled the HD out.

It sure seems to be a dead drive. It spins up, no clicking noises but it's not being seen by any computers.

I took the bare drive to Best Buy (Geek squad) and they were unable to detect the drive. They said it showed up for a moment then went away.

DAMN.

Looking into Seagate data recovery.
 
For me, I just tend to swap out drives every year (2 at most). Then take former and reuse in non critical situations.

My library is currently on the master station that I do all my ripping/tagging in mp3. The original FLACs are sitting on 2 1tb sata drives.

The mp3s themselves (and the vdj xml) is on a 500gb portable usb drive, two laptops, and of course, my two rack mount units.

Finally, each mp3 played from 2008 - 2011 (appx 2600) is sitting on my phone and in Google's cloud. Soon to be installed on my Thrive.

And - still have each and every cd on my shelves for easy access if need be.

It is also good idea to backup (make an image) of your os partition as well. Like below:

c:\ has windows and etc on it. Size is 32gb.
d:\ has media files (mp3s and etc) and takes up the remaining drive space.

Hopefully, this might be of help to someone here.
 
Damn djcity,
Sorry I couldn't been more help!
 
Try Ontrack as they might be useful.

The local chains might have a markup.
 
WD has luckily been good to me. I recently had a 2tb Fantom go out. Luckily it worked fine for the whole gig, I got home and was going to practice the next day, my laptop didnt see the drive? I could hear it spinning, I cracked the case open took the Seagate drive out of the Fantom case put it in a WD Mybook case now its working fine, I used it last night. I also believe in backing up in triplicates. I take 2 drives with me to a gig & leave 1 @ home. DjCity holla at me, I still cant get the VDJ crates to show up in SSL?
 
If you want a reliable HD, then invest in enterprise rated HD. I have been using them in my rig for 10 years with zero failures. All of my drives are Western Digital. Enterprise drives are rated for the harsh server environments which are very similar to what a DJ will experience. They might cost more, but they are reliable.
 


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