Oct 2, 2010, 05:40
This morning I tried to download photos from my camera to my external hard drive, and I heard a funny thumping / clicking sound. The wheel spun and spun, but nothing was copied. Unplugging, plugging, rescanning, etc. doesn't work and it shows up as uninitialised (on my mac) - looks like it's dead.
Earlier this year I moved all my photos from my internal HDD onto this external HDD. Thank goodness I'm backing it up to a 2nd external HDD with time machine (mac) and I also copy all my photos to a second portable HDD which I use as a second backup / take with me / offsite backup.
I must admit that I've been very fortunate thus far, and that this is the first time ever that a hard drive has failed on me. I have not been as diligent in the past, and only started to take backups seriously maybe 2 or 3 years back - but now that I've actually experienced a failure, I can breathe a sigh of relief.
How about you? Have you had any backup / hard drive failure stories to tell?
Earlier this year I moved all my photos from my internal HDD onto this external HDD. Thank goodness I'm backing it up to a 2nd external HDD with time machine (mac) and I also copy all my photos to a second portable HDD which I use as a second backup / take with me / offsite backup.
I must admit that I've been very fortunate thus far, and that this is the first time ever that a hard drive has failed on me. I have not been as diligent in the past, and only started to take backups seriously maybe 2 or 3 years back - but now that I've actually experienced a failure, I can breathe a sigh of relief.
How about you? Have you had any backup / hard drive failure stories to tell?