Problem With Samsung Spinpoint 2TB Drive

[muddyfox470]

Thanks for keeping us up to date, sounds like you got a good deal with shipping it off to Canada, what were the postage (and possibly custom if applicable) charges on it?

What did they manage to back it up to for you? £184 does seem cheap.

[chrisplettuce]

I provided my own backup 2TB drive (cheaper offer than the company offered) and all together it cost me £184 all in. The lad who fixed it is based in Canada but his father lives here in the UK so it was sent and received as a gift so no tax to pay. I would have absolutely no hesitation in using the guy again, his communication throughout was superb with regular daily updates. I can't recommend him highly enough. With the prices of 2TB drives droppping below the £90 mark here in the UK now i'm starting to make backups ready as it's still cheaper than Blu-Ray.

[watercooled]

There are two kinds of people: those who do regular backups and those who never had a hard drive failure.

I guess you learned an important lesson out of this at least. Glad you got your data back though.

[c.ruel]

Firstly glad to hear you got data back ... and you have some money left over for xmas! Going back to the resilience of hard drives. I dropped my 500gb WD from about half a foot onto my table about 6 months ago ... it still works fine ... was I lucky!?

[chrisplettuce]

I just had a 1.5TB drive die on me but not before it was backed up. I really have to figure out a good cooling method that will allow me to run them 24/7 that's not watercooled. For now I have the sides of the case and two huge desktop fans blowing freezing air into them lol.