We will not be beaten so easily!

[Vexxx_2007]

This guy is my new hero!
All it took was a little tech know-how and he totally fixed his dead hard drive (http://www.deadharddrive.com/)

Miracle? Maybe.
I'm still impressed though.
:banana:

[XcOM]

i've replaced the logic board on a drive a few times, it works wonders, and frozen a HDD in the freezer and amaged to get it working again for a breef period so i could copy off my data.

I want an external tape drive so i can do decent periodic backups, but there a bit expencive, and i threw my old one away a while back, now i have had 3 hard drive failures in the last 6 months i want to start doing it again.

[Bopher]

Its probably too old for you to use but I have a case in the basement that has a tape drive in it that I would send you if you're willing to cover the shipping. I'm not going to use it at all. I'll PM you the info on the drive later.

[FuzzyPlushroom]

Well, that's pretty damn funny, as I had an 80-gig Seagate go, as well. After six months, no less.

[Spawn-Inc]

ya my dads drive died and thats was my plan but then my dad went and got the same drive, but different year for manufacturing, and it never worked..

i told him that b4 but he never listened, ohwell.


i'm surprised the guy was even able to fix the hard drive as he didn't even know the screws were torx.

[luciusad2004]

People seriously still use tape drives? How much data does a tape hold? I can just imagine someone backing up their terrabyte pron collection to a closet full of tapes. I would back everything up to DVDs and I usually keep important stuff that i would want quick access to after a drive failure on one of my flash drives. Are tapes rewritable? That's really the only advantage i could see them having over the DVD method, unless of course they hold massive amounts of data.

[OvRiDe]

Tape is still almost exclusively used in backing up Enterprise solutions. But its like any thing, older tape drives don't make the best solutions, just like floppys arent the best solution today. LTO tapes which are pretty standard these days are superior to previous DLT and 4mm DAT solutions of the past. LTO4 tapes can hold up to 800GB, or 1600GB compressed. Also most tape solutions use libraries which contain multiple tapes. For instance our Dell 2U tape library can hold up to 14 LTO tapes, that's approximately 11 TB native or 22 TB of compressed storage. LTO tapes cost about 30 bucks each which is cheaper then HDD's and depending on the loading method you can change out all 11 TB in a matter of minutes, and store them safely either in house or off site for recovery purposes. Also LTO tapes measure 102 x 105.4 x 21.5 mm so they don't take up much space either.

So in short .. yes people seriously still use tape... :D

[XcOM]

what about SDLT, i thought they were supposed to be the next big thing in tape drives, i have an old one somewhere that uses SSI ultra wide and can beackup using 4/8GB DAT tapes.

and im sure you could get standard DLT tapes that could hold 1600GB a few years back, i remember seeing one in real life and i soooo wanted one back then! this one tape could hold more than my entire machine!

model: DLT-S4A
Size: 800/1600
Interface: GbE (FTP, HTTP)
Data Rate MB/s: 60
Released: 2007

edit:

I did some checking and you were rite, even though SDLT can hold the same its transfur speed is half of LTO, One thing to note it that LTO has data retention of 15-30 years (Optimal conditions) but SDLT is 30 years min (Optimal conditiions)

It would make sence if your using LTO to use the 400/800 tapes unless you really need the 800/1600 as the life span of re-writes on the 400/800 is much higher at 30 years of life assuimg one complete re-write per month and 7 years with one re-write per week

[markkleb]

thanks Vexxx_2007 for the great post.

[TheGreatSatan]

That's actually an easy thing to do, but finding the right drive to steal a logic board is not easy. HD manufacturers change logic boards damn near every week and nailing down the exact same one is NOT easy

[Vexxx_2007]

thanks Vexxx_2007 for the great post.

You're very welcome :)
I'll keep stumbling over stuff's like this if y'all keep reading
and replying
and such.

:)