Random questions to which you seek an answer

[Mild7]

Cheers Snowy. Ill PM shortly.

[Megatron1505]

35, I am 36 now.

[mclaincausey]

Almost 30. I'm closer to 40 than 30 now…

[Arabit]

Thanks for answering you guys.

[DougNg]

35 next week, still no idea what I want to do when I grow up

I've had four very distinct careers in my life, I've changed gears from medical research to law enforcement to investigation/quality control and now to training. I've been fairly successful at three of them, hated one of them

I've been pretty lucky in my professional career

[Megatron1505]

Where did the "Party, Party, Party" thread go?

[Giles]

It was merged into Haraki hits Europe thread…

[Megatron1505]

Ah right, well in that case I will post my random question here too.

If anyone fancies a beer and a burger in the Gosport/ Portsmouth locale tomorrow evening, get in contact with this guy.

[toddjcoley]

This guy is hoping to get there around 10ish, hit the dockyard for the day then burger time!

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[Seul]

So… My Western Digital external HD is fucked... Well: one of two, but the one I used most (not the back-up one)... About 500 GB worth of data I'd like to recover... Anyone up for it (will pay ya)?.. Just a standard 1 TB model... Three years old, perhaps a bit more?.. Still works, doesn't make any noise, just isn't recognised by any of my PCs anymore...

[mclaincausey]

I know this doesn't help you, but for future reference I use a RAID and an online backup service.  At the very least a small array configured with redundancy helps, though a disk outage during a rebuild without a hot spare and you're toast.

If you're not techy the Drobo is probably the way to go.

[Seul]

Most stuff is backed up through uploads on the net… Other stuff (The Precious Goods) is backed on two other disks, and online... The "lost" stuff is mostly music, recently downloaded shows, and of course lots and lots of pr0n…

[mclaincausey]

Some hot pig-on-pig action eh?

[Seul]

Babe on Babe and Babe Sex in the City…

[Snowy]

(RAID = Redundant Array of Independent Disks).

Seul, let me have a think about it, maybe, I'm not good @ platter transplants but am good at swapping the other bits around, and some can talk you through. 20-30% says I can do it, so low chance. Will likely be tomorrow night before I think on it…

[Seul]

Just went through my warranty papers: disk was 5 years old… Now using a WD Passport thingy to get me through... Will need a solid 2 or even 3 TB disk asap... Any recs = welcome...

Oh and Snow: not going to try and retrieve the data... No need to... Most stuff was backed up... Gonna use Soulseek for music and Kickass torrents for some shows I hadn't backed up...

Only shitty thing: no more bonus points on Pass the Popcorn and IP Torrents... Have good ratios but gotta rebuild from scratch... Damn it...

[Snowy]

Depending on how serious you are about not losing data, RAID stuff really does come into it.

If you're serious I'd suggest http://www.synology.com/products/product.php?product_name=DS413j&lang=enu
It's $380USD @ Amazon( http://www.amazon.com/Synology-DiskStation-Diskless-Network-Attached/dp/B008U69LC4 ) before you buy your own HDD's (4 of them).  So total cost with drives is around $800 for some nice disks.

[Snowy]

Hey Seul, having thought about it, can you get a picture of the drive up? Sounds like the controller's shit itself, in which case you open up the case, and buy a new $20 case and plug the HDD into it and you're back in action.

[Seul]

Thing is: when I connect it, my PC recognises it, and says it's downloading a driver for it… Then says "it's ready for use" but doesn't recognise the disk... Hard Disk Sentinel doesn't recognise it either... Oh: and it works (well: worked) without a driver...

Hmmm...

[Snowy]

Yeah, sounds like the controller's going/gone really. As long as you can get the HDD out it should be possible to stick in another enclosure. About $20 - http://www.newegg.com/External-Enclosures/SubCategory/ID-92