Death of an HD - Part II and IIa

[barondave]

Iomega insists that my drive may or may not be in warrantee. It's been a weird series of calls. The upshot is that they're going to send me a replacement power supply (basically, the cable/adapter that plugs in to the wall) and a USB cable. Frankly, I have my doubts that it will work, but they might replace the drive anyway. I don't have the receipt, but apparently the Serial Number was sufficient for them to realize that it's less than a year old. I may be able to dig out the receipt or get a new proof of purchase from MicroCenter.

In the meantime, I don't want to be without backup. I'm probably going to get another terabyte drive. No, not another Iomega. I've found several (including a LaCie 2TB for a decent price but might just bite the bullet and get a high-end, recommended-by-the-data-recovery-place G-Technology drive as back up, and deal with iTunes later (probably after Marscon, alas).

Comments? Anyone have better suggestions?

Comments

[budsharpe.livejournal.com]

It's pricey, but I love my Drobo (http://www.drobo.com/). I have the first generation device (USB only) and have had no issues so far. Upgrading capacity is a breeze. It provides data redundancy, which is something I went without for years. I use it as a live drive for media, but I also do scheduled backups of both of my internal hard drives to it.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

Hmm... thanks for the pointer and I'll consider it, but it's a bit outside of my budget and needs.

[guppiecat]

I like the Sata to USB adapters. Specifically, I like the one where you just drop the drive into a cradle (Best Buy has them). Then you can drop any sized Sata drive into it and it appears as a USB drive. It's easy to change disks and manage backup sets.

[barondave.livejournal.com]

The G-Technology drive has SATA capabilities, which was also recommended by the data recovery guy. I don't know anything about it. I assume I need a card or something. Still, it's a plus for the G-Drive.

[aedifica]

Iomega insists that my drive may or may not be in warrantee

reminded me of this:

"I am Majikthise!" announced the older one.

"And I demand that I am Vroomfondel!" shouted the younger one.

Majikthise turned to Vroomfondel. "It’s all right," he explained angrily, "you don’t need to demand that."

...and the rest.

[madtruk.livejournal.com]

Anectdotally I've had nothing but bad luck with LaCie and great luck with Western Digital, YMMV.