Re: [tlug] HDD Reliability

[Anthony Cunningham <anthony.cb@example.com>]

"Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" wrote:
> 
> A quick question about hard drives.  I remember reading in the Register
> ( www.theregister.co.uk ) - I think last year - a couple of articles
> about a fairly high failure rate with some hard drives.  I mention this
> now, because my 120GB IBM drive makes an odd noise from time to time (I
> don't know how to describe it - a sort of electronic sound that I've
> never heard any other drive I've used make).  Hopefully there's no bad

Hard drive trouble seems to be catching lately, just yesterday there was
this post on slashdot 

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/02/24/2327237
about hard drives dying.  So if it stops working you might get some
ideas there...like freezing it.

Unfortunately quite recently for me a seagate IDE drive died with some
unbacked up data.
Does anyone know of data recovery options in Japan?  If I can get some
quotes I can make a price vrs. importance decision?  

Anthony