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.