Ok just need to vent a little since I have no one else to vent to here at the moment.
So saturday night I was on my Windows PC(my main rig for recording, working, etc. My mac is my internet surfing PC). I noticed it was acting funny when trying to open certain files. It was taking a while to open them, not opening them at all, but then working fine. Sunday afternoon I was working on some recordings of my amp for my website, all was working ok. I then decided to update my audio drivers since a newer version was out. At the end of the installation I restarted my PC, only to find it wouldn't boot into windows. Ok, no big deal, this happens sometimes. Well I spend a good 10 hours today trying to diagnose and fix the issue.
Well it ends up being one of my main system drives that took a dump. Apparently the thingy that moves(the head?) decided to start grinding slightly against the platter, slowly destroying my data, which is why I started having issues then it progressively just destroyed the drive completely. To make matters worse, I can't save any of the good data since I'm a moron and this was a RAID 0 configuration. All is lost.
I had a backup. It was on the same RAID setup. Fuck.
So I've officially lost THOUSANDS of hours worth of work. All my schematics, 3d files for my cabs, logos for my company, pictures, etc, all gone. I can go on and on about what I lost, I would have a list a mile long. Luckily I have a hardcopy of my schematics for my amp designs, but having to redraw everything out on the PC is going to be a pain. This really blows.
What I'm going to do now-
1. Never use Maxtor drives again. Damn thing was only 3 years old. I should have learned after the last time I had one that failed.
2. Never use RAID 0 again. The slight benefit doesn't make up for complete failure.
3. Have a seperate drive strictly for backup purposes. I had planned on doing this a while ago, but completly forgot. I went out and bought a 2TB network drive today so I can have something that automatically backs up my files. I may even sign up for one of those online backup programs as well. Having everything in 3 places seems like a safe way to go.
At least I had all my Slate/EZdrummer files on a separate drive. One less fucking thing to re-download. Oh god, that reminds me, all the plug-ins I had.... I hope I still have all my serial numbers and crap saved in emails. Hell I don't even remember half the stuff I've bought and downloaded. What a pain in the ass.
Burn in hell Maxtor. Thanks for ruining my shit.
So saturday night I was on my Windows PC(my main rig for recording, working, etc. My mac is my internet surfing PC). I noticed it was acting funny when trying to open certain files. It was taking a while to open them, not opening them at all, but then working fine. Sunday afternoon I was working on some recordings of my amp for my website, all was working ok. I then decided to update my audio drivers since a newer version was out. At the end of the installation I restarted my PC, only to find it wouldn't boot into windows. Ok, no big deal, this happens sometimes. Well I spend a good 10 hours today trying to diagnose and fix the issue.
Well it ends up being one of my main system drives that took a dump. Apparently the thingy that moves(the head?) decided to start grinding slightly against the platter, slowly destroying my data, which is why I started having issues then it progressively just destroyed the drive completely. To make matters worse, I can't save any of the good data since I'm a moron and this was a RAID 0 configuration. All is lost.
I had a backup. It was on the same RAID setup. Fuck.
So I've officially lost THOUSANDS of hours worth of work. All my schematics, 3d files for my cabs, logos for my company, pictures, etc, all gone. I can go on and on about what I lost, I would have a list a mile long. Luckily I have a hardcopy of my schematics for my amp designs, but having to redraw everything out on the PC is going to be a pain. This really blows.
What I'm going to do now-
1. Never use Maxtor drives again. Damn thing was only 3 years old. I should have learned after the last time I had one that failed.
2. Never use RAID 0 again. The slight benefit doesn't make up for complete failure.
3. Have a seperate drive strictly for backup purposes. I had planned on doing this a while ago, but completly forgot. I went out and bought a 2TB network drive today so I can have something that automatically backs up my files. I may even sign up for one of those online backup programs as well. Having everything in 3 places seems like a safe way to go.
At least I had all my Slate/EZdrummer files on a separate drive. One less fucking thing to re-download. Oh god, that reminds me, all the plug-ins I had.... I hope I still have all my serial numbers and crap saved in emails. Hell I don't even remember half the stuff I've bought and downloaded. What a pain in the ass.
Burn in hell Maxtor. Thanks for ruining my shit.