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Just a little plug for NZ music… check out some today at Amp3lifier.
And yes, I still haven’t found what I’m looking for… I’ll get one one day.
Check it out at Apple.
I bought myself a shiny new 250GB Iomega Firewire/USB external hard drive in early April, in the interests of storing large amounts of musically related data… and backing up my internal drive on my PC. And it just so happens that it failed on Thursday!
Well, the cookie has crumbled and all the chocolate chips have fallen out and that’s just the way it goes!
So, yeah – now I’m thinking either of writing large quantities of DVD’s to back up my various contents, or needing to run two drives in parallel in order to backup what I have.
Funny how I went from ‘blissfully unaware’ with 60GB (mostly full) on hand, to 310GB and lots of room but feeling slightly more secure… to wanting to now buy another 300GB to cover for the loss of *both* drives should one of them fail. Crikey!
Oh, and in case you’re wondering, a workmate downstairs in the I.T. department is working away at seeing if he can extract all my old files… including a complete CD collection ripped to iTunes, my complete sample and midi library for recording, and a whole bunch of ‘scratch’/demo/working files recorded in Cubase over the last couple of years – including some by my mates Joe and Herbie. Ahh boo!
I’m just grateful all of our holiday photos and all my word documents are ok, on the 60GB drive. Time to do some further research into backup media.
So yes, important lesson learned. And a good one to learn before stepping out and writing my book – which will be hundreds of hours of work, and thousands and thousands of words – too valuable to lose! So it’ll make another hundred pounds or so well worth the investment.
Shaken, stirred, but still confident I can get my data back.
