<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br>On 29 Apr 2015, at 5:53 am, "Jerry" <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com">mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com" target="_blank">gary.buhrmaster@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Jerry <<a href="mailto:mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com">mythtv@hambone.e4ward.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<span class="">> I'm not sure if I can salvage anything at this point and I'm not sure I want<br>
> to spend days trying to grab whatever is left.<br>
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</span>I suggest that at this point, it is time to walk away. You<br>
are going to be spending those days you stated you<br>
did not want to spend to try all the ideas and likely<br>
recover some small part of the data.<br>
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"He's dead, Jerry".<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Agreed. Yeah, I think it's time to shoot the horse.<br><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone for the advice. I'll file a claim and get a new drive. <br></div></div></div></div>
</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br></div></blockquote><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">My condolences on your loss Jerry.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">On a slightly different note, I think I saw that yours was a 3Tb Seagate drive. IIRC there is a Backblaze study that shows they have an unusually high failure rate.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/">https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">It would appear to me that your experience may align very closely to the Backblaze experience.</span></div></body></html>