I am conducting a poll to use as data in a speech I am giving. Please answer the following questions. Only answer a question if it applies to you.
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes (25+ including 13 Deathstars /shudder)
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No. I have personally used 3 extensively. First was a 256M Lexar. Next was a 2G Corsair. Very happy with both. I also have a 128M Crucial custom logo'd promo that has worked well.
I have also used and suported over 300 crucial logo'd 128M drives with 0 DOA's or failures over a years time of hard use.
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never used. will soon though
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
O yeah. cheap media - tha debil.
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
yes.
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes
CD's, Flash drives, and data stored on multiple PCs.
Main file server at home has mirrored mirrored array.
2 pairs of SCSI RAID 0 set in RAID 0. Yay 1/4th usage! I can have 3 drives and a controler go south and keep chugging away.
Not likely? Had a Win2K server loose 2 disks in a Raid5 array within 10 min of each other. Physical plate damage in both cases. no recovery. I was standing in the room when it happened. (no, the server was not "bumped")
2003 server had a Controller go haywire and scramble a raid 0 set. could not recover from the drives.
Good tape backup routines saved both of those situations.
Can I put in a special mention for Zip Drives? The external 100Meg particularly. O how I hate those. I still hear Click of Death when I have nightmares.
1. Have you ever had a hard drive fail on you?
Yes (25+ including 13 Deathstars /shudder)
2. Have you ever had a USB Pen fail on you? (if you've used these)
No. I have personally used 3 extensively. First was a 256M Lexar. Next was a 2G Corsair. Very happy with both. I also have a 128M Crucial custom logo'd promo that has worked well.
I have also used and suported over 300 crucial logo'd 128M drives with 0 DOA's or failures over a years time of hard use.
3. Have you ever had an external Hard Drive Fail on you? (if you've used these)
Never used. will soon though
4. Have you ever had a CD-R, DVD-R, or other optical media fail/corrupt on you?
O yeah. cheap media - tha debil.
5. Have you ever deleted a file by accident and had it be unrecoverable?
yes.
6. Do you have any sort of backup regimen?
Yes
CD's, Flash drives, and data stored on multiple PCs.
Main file server at home has mirrored mirrored array.
2 pairs of SCSI RAID 0 set in RAID 0. Yay 1/4th usage! I can have 3 drives and a controler go south and keep chugging away.
Not likely? Had a Win2K server loose 2 disks in a Raid5 array within 10 min of each other. Physical plate damage in both cases. no recovery. I was standing in the room when it happened. (no, the server was not "bumped")
2003 server had a Controller go haywire and scramble a raid 0 set. could not recover from the drives.
Good tape backup routines saved both of those situations.
Can I put in a special mention for Zip Drives? The external 100Meg particularly. O how I hate those. I still hear Click of Death when I have nightmares.