Thread: The New "What did you do with your Z today" (with off topic replies) IV
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Old 02-15-2013, 11:36 AM   #942 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by JARblue View Post
I should add that in the past 10 years or so, I have worked on about 15 failed external hard drives given to me by various friends. About 25% of the time, the drive is recoverable in some fashion, though only once was I able to leave the drive in the enclosure. I always recommend a NAS (Network Attached Storage) running a RAID 1 or 5 with reliable enterprise-level hard drives with 5 yr warranty. Two of my friends EACH had four external drives fail before they finally broke down and had me build a RAID 5 NAS for them.
mr.jar- thus the bullet trick to completely kill HD's for good.
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