[mythtv-users] Hard drive failure -- recovery method suggestions

[Jerry]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Mark Perkins <perkins1724 at hotmail.com>
wrote:

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>
> On 29 Apr 2015, at 5:53 am, "Jerry" <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 3:57 PM, Gary Buhrmaster <
> gary.buhrmaster at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 11:57 PM, Jerry <mythtv at hambone.e4ward.com>
>> wrote:
>> ....
>> > I'm not sure if I can salvage anything at this point and I'm not sure I
>> want
>> > to spend days trying to grab whatever is left.
>>
>> I suggest that at this point, it is time to walk away.  You
>> are going to be spending those days you stated you
>> did not want to spend to try all the ideas and likely
>> recover some small part of the data.
>>
>> "He's dead, Jerry".
>>
>
> Agreed.  Yeah, I think it's time to shoot the horse.
>
> Thanks to everyone for the advice.  I'll file a claim and get a new drive.
>
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> My condolences on your loss Jerry.
>
> 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.
>
> https://www.backblaze.com/blog/3tb-hard-drive-failure/
>
> It would appear to me that your experience may align very closely to the
> Backblaze experience.
>
>
Yep, that's the one.  I heard some bad things after I bought it.
Unfortunately, I have another one in my computer now.  It might be a newer
generation, but I'm not sure.  Only time will tell.
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