I tossed the bodies of 20 drives in the recycle bin about a month ago after removing the disks. I asked on several groups if anybody wanted them but got no response!
JWE
Long Beach, CA
Nov 28, 2010 11:31:02 PM, gingery_machines@yahoogroups.com wrote:
Hope you get to keep the old drives. Lovely Al there begging to be melted
down!
On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 4:42 PM, James Early wrote:
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> I tried a similar system some years ago. It cost the company $3500 to
> recover the bosses critical email and excel data from the failed drive. He
> now agrees with me that it is a whole lot cheaper to buy a new drive every
> 36 months for $100 than to pay the hard drive recovery people their fees.
> Point is it is a rare drive that fails in under 40 months of use. It is also
> an even more rare dive that lasts more than 48 months in service. So my
> current policy is to replace all service drives either working or backup
> every 36 months and super critical data is backed to a flash drive on a
> monthly basis.
>
> I was very lucky that I had made my objections clear to the boss on both of
> his last 2 objections to my designed data recovery program. Now I just have
> to hope he remembers the pain he suffered on his last 2 system drive crashes
> before the next drive replacement date.
>
> JWE
> Long Beach, CA
>
>
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