Drive Crash
Welcome to my first external drive crash.
I've been doing some freelancing for a .org in DC, helping produce videos of seminars on Capitol Hill. The editing is all Final Cut Pro 6. I enhance some of the seminar slides with Keynote animations exported as Quicktime. Good work for good people.
Unfortunately, the 1.5-month-old drive I've been using for assets and editing has just gone Tango Uniform. Unmountable. Unfixable by OS X's Disk Utility.
Why, if I spec RAID systems for other folks, did I go with a single drive config for myself? Budget? Natural cheapness? Carelessness? I guess I just didn't figure the drive would die before the first project wrapped. I had planned to archive the works, right after post-production.
Bad plan. Never again.
So, now I have a NewerTech GMAX (Guardian Maximus -- an over-the-top name if I've ever heard one) 500GB 32M RAID-1 box on order from OWC. There's a copy of Data Rescue II from Prosoft. This will be my first GMax. I'll let you know how well it works.
Time to contact the warranty folks at Maxtor! I wonder what that will be like.
I've been doing some freelancing for a .org in DC, helping produce videos of seminars on Capitol Hill. The editing is all Final Cut Pro 6. I enhance some of the seminar slides with Keynote animations exported as Quicktime. Good work for good people.
Unfortunately, the 1.5-month-old drive I've been using for assets and editing has just gone Tango Uniform. Unmountable. Unfixable by OS X's Disk Utility.
Why, if I spec RAID systems for other folks, did I go with a single drive config for myself? Budget? Natural cheapness? Carelessness? I guess I just didn't figure the drive would die before the first project wrapped. I had planned to archive the works, right after post-production.
Bad plan. Never again.
So, now I have a NewerTech GMAX (Guardian Maximus -- an over-the-top name if I've ever heard one) 500GB 32M RAID-1 box on order from OWC. There's a copy of Data Rescue II from Prosoft. This will be my first GMax. I'll let you know how well it works.
Time to contact the warranty folks at Maxtor! I wonder what that will be like.
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Kitty, at 10:09 PM
So, Steve ... how did the warranty support with Maxtor go? I had an external USB drive (300gig, I think it was -- I have 10 external USB drives in use right now) by Maxtor go bad about eight months after I bought it. After two months, FINALLY, they agreed to replace it. It was over a month before the replacement unit arrived.
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Scoop0901, at 11:30 AM
I decided to keep it as a monument to never buying another Maxtor -- or another non-RAID drive for freelancing. I'll never forget now!
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Prof. G., at 7:51 PM
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