o/t hard drives

[ben lizard]

i think i may have broken another hard drive , that's six in under two years , is any one else such a genius at breaking electrical equipment?

[CarZee]

bloody hell - I leave mine running 24x7 and they still last 2 years or more...

I use Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor and IBM... only ever had a problem with the IBM GXP75 (and Fujitsu) drives.

>> Edited by CarZee on Tuesday 13th August 09:23

[scruff400]

I've got a striped set (approx a terrabyte) attached to this editor, and the only time it gets narked is when it get switched off (then on again, obviously...) then it's several attempts to get them all spinning the right way . We leave them switched on where ever possible (18mnths so far)

However there's another set of drives as part of the network that most other suites use that I spectacularly trashed about 2 months ago (36 hrs worth of telly programmes) - no kidding I actualy went round looking like this smiley

I got most of it back though..

>> Edited by scruff400 on Tuesday 13th August 09:27

[miniman]

quote:
bloody hell - I leave mine running 24x7 and they still last 2 years or more...

I use Seagate, Western Digital, Maxtor and IBM... only ever had a problem with the IBM GXP75 (and Fujitsu) drives.

>> Edited by CarZee on Tuesday 13th August 09:23

That's always the best bet - leave the PC switched on. It prevents power spikes at switch-on, and the electricity costs are negligable.

[philshort]

I "lost" a hard drive recently, and was shocked to discover that there has been a spate of failures on that model range. The drive was 6 months old. Beware if you have F****** MPG drives!

[Jarrett]

Scruff400,

You have a terabyte striped set on your desktop!?

Just a few questions;

Why? How much? How the hell do you back it up?

Jarrett

P.S. For those out there not into PC's in a big way, your average well spec'd pc has 100GB of disk, a terabyte is 10 times that! That's enough space for 1000 Encyclopaedia Britannica's or The ancient Library of Alexandria (400,000 scrolls) plus a few hundred Britannica's for luck!

[JoePhandango]

Definitely leave your disk running if your going to be using the machine again within 72 hours. Just make sure you have a surge protector between your computer and the mains (apx. £15 from PC World etc) and turn off your monitor to prevent screen burn. Spinning the disk up is the most stressfull operation your poor drive faces. Much like redlining a cold engine

[lotusfan]

quote:
Scruff400,

You have a terabyte striped set on your desktop!?

Just a few questions;

Why? How much? How the hell do you back it up?

If its striped then backups become less important as a single drive failure will not lose the data, failure of the raid is a different matter but still not disastrous

[scruff400]

Scruff400,

You have a terabyte striped set on your desktop!?
No. It's actually fibred into my Avid DS HD (basically a duall 2.2gig P4 with 4gig of RAM - but I don't like to boast!!).

Just a few questions;

Why?
It stores pictures. Lots of them!!
How much?
Dunno, I got a package price of £160K and thought, that's good, go for it!!
How the hell do you back it up?
Staggeringly simple - cause they're pictures, you lay them off to a DigiBeta video deck. All the project information is stored to a server on our network.

Incedently at High Definition resolution, a terrabyte will store about 7 hrs of picture - not that much when you consider the amount of footage there is in a feature film.
We need more space!!! ..and faster processing (most is processed remotely as render times for effects are in days rather than minutes!!)