should I get a new hd or a dvd burner?

[GhostKat]

My 80gig maxtor which I bought last year now has some bad clusters. It's still under warrenty since I got it before they switched to 1 year warranties on thier products. I got about 40 gigs on it and while I have a cd burner it would take a spindle of 50 or so to back it all up. So I been thinking I need a new drive or a dvd burner.

Since the 80 gig is not the system drive I think the first question is should I get a new drive while I send it off for repair/replacement or get a dvd burner to back up with.

actually I haven't even run the maxtor diagnostics program to see if it can repair the clusters but I still need some backup solution before I do that or send it off.

GK

I'd go inside my computer but it's SCSI in there

 

[RobD]

So the 80GB Maxtor <i>isn't</i> your system drive? Just used for data storage and other such bollocks (porn?! ) right?

Well, by the time you'd burnt all the data (40GB's worth) to CDR, the warranty on the HD will be up! How big is the system drive? Could you maybe shunt the data over onto that temporarily while you get the old drive away and await a shiny new one in it's place?

Maxtor's diag program (Powerdiag I believe) may well detect and repair bad clusters etc, but it surely spells the inevitable end for your HD.

So, onto the main event. Is you sys drive big enough to take the data? If so, problem solved. If you get a new drive, isn't that really gonna negate the need to send the fubar'd one back to Maxtor? You're not gonna just buy a 40GB are you? Or do you run multiple HD's?

 

[sjonnie]

The price of 10 DVD+RWs to back up your data will be about half the price of a new hard disk. Not to mention the actual cost of the DVD burner in the first place. If your hard disk is developing faults, get a new one, pronto.

In any event, it sounds as though the 40GB of data is something you want to keep so you really should already have a backup solution for that. Get a new 80GB Maxtor and then when you RMA your other one you can set up a RAID1 array when it comes back.

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[dhlucke]

Buy a 52x cd-rw for less than $70 and a spindle of 100 CD's for $10 long before you buy a dvd-rw.

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[GhostKat]

So the 80GB Maxtor isn't your system drive? Just used for data storage and other such bollocks (porn?! ) right?

SHHHHH, shut up about that. *looks around*

the sys drive is a 4 gigger

Get a new 80GB Maxtor and then when you RMA your other one you can set up a RAID1

I do have a board that can do raid. hmmmm. The drive was formated NTFS and I think I found all the bad clusters when trying to write and not read the information. I just need to move it off the drive before I send it in is all. I think I'll get another drive as it'll be cheaper and I can setup a raid and have more storage for the movies I'm making.

Gk



I'd go inside my computer but it's SCSI in there<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by ghostkat on 02/26/03 03:40 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

 

[ejsmith2]

DVD burners ROCK!!!!!!!!/11!one!!

They are outstanding. But only if you use them. I use the @$$ out of my cdrw burners, so a DVD burner makes a noticable impact.

But, if your hard disk is going out on you, then you need to be sweating that one first. Don't even bother with a DVD burner until you get that hammered out. You can get a cheap 24x Liton cd burner (or even 16x), and use that to backup with.

Seriously. Get your system drive taken care of first and out of the equation. Then look at the DVD burners.

"I personally think filesystems should be rewritten from scratch every 5 years..." --- Hans Reiser

 

[RobD]

the sys drive is a 4 gigger

Oh. No then. [looks for rock to crawl back under]

...the movies I'm making

I was right, I knew it! Ron Jeremy is here!!!

Lol, sorry d00d. If you running RAID, get the extra drive then. You'd only end up buying one in the future anyway!

 

[GhostKat]

So my printer is looking at me soulfully and telling me it needs color ink. I decide to stop by Best Buy to get a color and black cartridge for it and I stop to see what they had in HD's. they unfortunatly had no Maxtor 80gb's but had a Maxtor 120gb/7200rpm/2mb cache/ata133 for $150 with $50 of mail in rebates. Weird thing was the packaging. It said it was a 100GB but had a sticker on it that said Extra 20GB. I'm thinking "why did they do that? did they run out of 120gb boxes or something" but I thought it was a decent price so I picked it up.

GK

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<A HREF="http://www.somafm.com" target="_new">http://www.somafm.com</A><P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by ghostkat on 02/27/03 05:00 PM.</EM></FONT></P>