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I felt a great disturbance in the Force

24 durable postsStarted 2017-08-05Latest 2017-08-23
#172302Post 1 of 24

[QUOTE] As if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. [/QUOTE]

I fear something terrible has happened. My main hardrive has crashed. Terabytes of music could be gone. Fuuuuuuucccck

#1775710Post 2 of 24

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:shock:

#1775711Post 3 of 24

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£800 recovery.

#1775713Post 4 of 24

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800 pounds??

#1775714Post 5 of 24

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noooo

#1775715Post 6 of 24

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It's a sad day for dance music.

#1775716Post 7 of 24

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Fuck that's terrible.

#1775719Post 8 of 24

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Fortunately a lot of stuff is backed up on various hard drives.

#1775720Post 9 of 24

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That's good news. All the flyers and obscure sets..

#1775721Post 10 of 24

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When my Mac Mini packed up last year I backed all of the important sets up on a seconded hard drive. But the more obscure stuff may be lost. I will get the HD sorted next week. I'm thinking of getting a Mac Time Capsule to use as a second back up. By the time everything is sorted I will have shelled out £1200. But there are some things you can't live without.

#1775723Post 11 of 24

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[QUOTE=♫♫♫♫♫♫;1203296] But there are some things you can't live without.[/QUOTE]

So much this !!

#1775725Post 12 of 24

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[QUOTE=DIDI;1203298]So much this !![/QUOTE]

If your oven, washing machine or dish washer pack up, you can live without it. Music collection! Many pounds will be spent immediately.

#1775731Post 13 of 24

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Totally :lol:

#1775744Post 14 of 24

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hard drives will crash- in fact you can just assume they will at some point. Best thing to do is to buy a NAS, with RAID on it, which is what I do.

Buy a Synology NAS- i have the ds214play- two HDDs in it that are mirrored to each other. One hard drive fails? I order 2 while all of my data is saved on the second hard drive. I plug in the first replacement and one its all copied over, i replace the second one. why? because the second one is bound to fail sooner or later.

that will cost you probably the same 800 pounds but much more secure as far as hard drive failures. you also get access to all your content online since the NAS provides you with an ip address/url for you to log into from anywhere with a browser and internet access.

All of my music is backed up this way.

#1775748Post 15 of 24

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[QUOTE=jay813;1203330]hard drives will crash- in fact you can just assume they will at some point. Best thing to do is to buy a NAS, with RAID on it, which is what I do.

Buy a Synology NAS- i have the ds214play- two HDDs in it that are mirrored to each other. One hard drive fails? I order 2 while all of my data is saved on the second hard drive. I plug in the first replacement and one its all copied over, i replace the second one. why? because the second one is bound to fail sooner or later.

that will cost you probably the same 800 pounds but much more secure as far as hard drive failures. you also get access to all your content online since the NAS provides you with an ip address/url for you to log into from anywhere with a browser and internet access.

All of my music is backed up this way.[/QUOTE]

just when i thought i wasnt going to buy anything the rest of the year, you do this. might need to seriously look into this..

#1776007Post 16 of 24

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[QUOTE=♫♫♫♫♫♫;1203296]When my Mac Mini packed up last year I backed all of the important sets up on a seconded hard drive. But the more obscure stuff may be lost. I will get the HD sorted next week. I'm thinking of getting a Mac Time Capsule to use as a second back up. By the time everything is sorted I will have shelled out £1200. But there are some things you can't live without.[/QUOTE]

Whoa! I thought that I was the very few with a Mac Mini. Loving it. What's your memory capacity? I'm at 1TB.

#1776008Post 17 of 24

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Also, I would never depend on one or even two sources to save all of my digital files. Just saying if you have a lot of them.

#1776009Post 18 of 24

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29 files corrupt out of 20,000. Lucky most were Danny Howells sets and a few Last Night On Earth. The Howells sets were backed up 3 times over. This experience will still cost me £1000. Just lucky I'm not hard up.

#1776010Post 19 of 24

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I know that it's more effort but burn the sets on disc & save your memory for tracks, IMO.

#1776012Post 20 of 24

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i know you're not going to listen to me but trust me this is good advice... may i suggest a [URL="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=blu+ray+burner"]Amazon.co.uk: blu ray burner[/URL], you can fit 23.3 GB of data on one disc at a time, the discs can be a bit expensive but it will save you a fortune in the long run

edit : can't actually believe that in this day and age people don't back up their shit 2 or 3 times over

#1776013Post 21 of 24

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Curious. Why concerned? 23.3GB of data equals 0.0233 of TB storage. So, it's all golden.

#1776028Post 22 of 24

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[QUOTE=Michael^Heaven;1203713]Curious. Why concerned? 23.3GB of data equals 0.0233 of TB storage. So, it's all golden.[/QUOTE]

i was referring to chris not you

#1776075Post 23 of 24

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[QUOTE=ddr;1203334]just when i thought i wasnt going to buy anything the rest of the year, you do this. might need to seriously look into this..[/QUOTE]

its worth it! its where i trust my personal documents, family photos and of course my music and movies since the NAS run the plex app- can stream anywhere you have an internet connection.

now all i have to do is worry about some kind of off site backup in case my house goes up in flames or flooded or zapped by a lightning storm and fries the unit.

#1776080Post 24 of 24

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My heart really sank when I went back to my old old hard drive and I realised that there would be lots of stuff missing (everything from 2011 onwards). But not only that. lots of the sets that I had edited and joined over the years, would also be missing. Fortunately out of 19,000 files only 24 were corrupt. I got them all back today on a new hard drive, which I am backing up right now. All in all this has cost me £850. It's a good job that I am not hard up. LOL

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