Invisible wrote:
>>>> guess there isn't a convenient modality for backing up 500GB of data?
>>> There is - but not for sane prices, no.
>>
>> A 1.5 GB SATA Seagate Barracuda drive costs a mere $95 from newegg.

You mean TB, mayhaps?

>> I guess that arguably is an insane price - insanely cheap.
> 
> I don't know, man... Backing up spinning disk to... spinning disk? Is 
> that such a sensible idea?
> 
> (Then again, I don't have any hard data on the reliability of HD verses 
> tape verses CD. I've heard that spinning HD up and down wears it out 
> faster than keeping it spinning, but I don't know if that's true...)

As for myself, I've never had much luck with optical media.  Trust them 
way less than hard drives.  But I'm planning on getting a new desktop at 
the end of the month with 2x1 TB and was going to use this external 
drive as the backup for *that* (until I need a second one)...

As I said, I *hope* it's just the enclosure that croaked, and the drive 
itself is just fine.

If it's not...I dunno.  Data recovery places are expensive, and I don't 
know if I can justify $1000+ even on the ~year's worth of data I had, at 
the moment.  How time-critical are these kinds of things?  Can I just 
keep it and when I have more money in a few months send it to a data 
recovery place, if I can't get it working myself?

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Tim Cook
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