magnets too. They're great. Those rare earth suckers can just about stick
egg boxes onto the fridge! I glued one on my mini bench drill which is where
my chuck key now permanantly lives, close to hand and never misplaced.
R.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 4:34 PM, James Early <jwearly1@verizon.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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<gingery_machines%40yahoogroups.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:
>
> >
> >
> > 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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