Backup, kids!
:: Thursday, June 14th, 2007 @ 9:00:00 pm
:: Tags: Computers
I had a backup 500GB drive die on me today — the thing doesn’t even spin up when power is applied. ARGH. It sucks to have a drive die 3 hours before an international trip. I’m backing up that volume over the network now. I’ve griped endlessly in the past about the poor network performance of Mac backup apps. While I can get 30+ MB/s over gigabit when copying a file over the network, I’ve been unable to get more than 4-6MB/s while using a backup app, and believe me — I’ve tried quite a few.
At 6MB/s, the backup will take 23 hours. Yippee.
So be sure to back up regularly, readers. Drives die all the time, and it’s just a matter of time before yours does!
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Hi Eric,
Sorry to hear about the crash. I’ve lost two drives in the past three years. I think I’m moving to the Infrant NV+ to store backups & DVD movies. Let me know if you solve the Gigabit backup throughput issue.
Hey Eric, Which model 500gb drive is it? I had a few drives fail and I pulled the drive’s motherboard off and swaped it with a working drive. got the data off. Might work for you.