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30 years ago a DJ told me... "Don't worry you weren't a real DJ untill you accidentaly picked up on a live record. After I killed the floor of course.
Spin ahead to 2009...
How about bumping your Segate external drive just after your whole family spent days helping you rip 938 CD's!

Who makes the most rugged external drive?
 
geposted Fri 17 Jul 09 @ 8:26 pm
WOW !!! thats a lot of Cds...
 
I've managed to erm Bounce my Maxtor 1TB twice now :(. And it's still rocking woop woop
 
What a bummer...Do you have to start over?
 
kjdj99 wrote :

Who makes the most rugged external drive?


Oh, no, I really feel for you!
like the other poster above I bounced my 1.5Tb maxtor, but wasn't so lucky, and it crashed. I was lucky to have backups of sorts in various forms, but it took me quite some time to reassemble everything.

To answer your question, you might want to take a look at these:

http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=10995

Lacie rugged hard disk, a friend of mine works for a formula one team who use these for some of their pit wall engineers, says they are pretty good, but by the nature of hard disks, I'm sure they are far from indestructable.

I'm personally looking forward to 2.5inch hard disk drives being released in sizes up to 1TB. which I'm told should happen soon. I run a laptop with 2 SATA bays, so I could have a total of 2tb internal storage in the laptop itself, and so have all my tunes and videos on board without the need to carry an external drive and power pack.

pete
 
Ha, funny you should ask, watch this and get your answer...






My first YouTube video ever covers external hard drives such as the inexpensive, very rugged and excellent workhorse 1 TB Western Digital My Book and even covers problems with SeaGate 1.5 TB FreeAgent Extreme



DJ RuDe


Keep Spinnin'!!
 
kjdj99 wrote :
30 years ago a DJ told me... "Don't worry you weren't a real DJ untill you accidentaly picked up on a live record. After I killed the floor of course.
Spin ahead to 2009...
How about bumping your Segate external drive just after your whole family spent days helping you rip 938 CD's!

Who makes the most rugged external drive?


I got to say how I feel for you.

Now that the horse is bolted. I say to anyone please please backup your material each step of the way. We all know the work we have to put in to get our material together and organised. Years of work wiped in a bump. Three back up harddrives is good for starters as they are your holy Grail.
 
I'm a backup monger cuz I NEVER want to have to go the process of re-doing my 20,000 tracks. I have 2 identical MacBooks with all my music on them (one as a backup at gigs) and 2 external hard drives which I back up constantly using Super Duper. Frequent back ups are the key, because even if you go a week without backing up are you going to remember all the changes you've made to playlists or remember what new tracks you added in that time if something goes wrong?

I know a couple of DJs who either had their laptop stolen or their hard drive stolen/damaged and they didn't have back up. I can't say I feel sorry for them. External hard drives are so cheap these days so there's no real excuse. If you lost all your tracks and someone asked if you would pay $100.00 to get them all back you would pay it in a heartbeat, so why not buy the external hard drive for $100.00 in the first place and avoid the sickening feeling of knowing you have to rip your CDs and organize your music collection all over again?
 


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