Storage Drives failing- need backup

musman wrote on 9/14/2004, 11:14 AM

My V drive has started losing material and now my E drive has taken to humming. The hum last night was pretty darn loud, though it's quieter today- but still there.
I've git a project due at a film festival on thursday and figure I should try to back stuff up, but I ve never done that before and don't know how.
I'm guessing I need firewire storage, but have heard some not great things about firewire storage.
Can anyone recommend a good one? Also, would it be slower working with firewire than internal storage? It might be nice to get something that could one day work with uncompress SD material with this storage, but that's not my primary concern right now.
Thanks for any help!

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apit34356 wrote on 9/14/2004, 11:31 AM

"but I ve never done that before and don't know how." Run, do not walk to your favorite computer store, ie computusa, a buy a firewire drive or two and start copying your drives. Firewire connection is quick and easy, plus highly portable. simply use your file manager,ie, to move your directories or complete drives,(complete drive require firewire drive to be atless same size).

musman wrote on 9/14/2004, 11:36 AM

SOrry, still confused- I can just move files for this project- right? I've got 440 gigs of hard drive I'd have to try to back up if I did the whole thing. Of course, I started using the E drive when the V started acting funny, so there's stuff on both drives.

apit34356 wrote on 9/14/2004, 11:59 AM

well, yes. make a backup copy of your project veg in vegas, put in your "my Documents" for safety reasons. There are many disk copying programs, like Diskimage,...... if you do not what to use windows to copy your files.

Are you asking if Vegas can save your project and all media files on another external drive for you? Spot, JohmCline,Cheno,Johnmeyer,Farss would probably give you better advice using vegas to export media files as group. I do not use the "print to tape" or many of the media pool options.

musman wrote on 9/14/2004, 12:13 PM

Thanks for the help. Unfortunately, things have taken a turn for the worse. The E drive was on a databridge (one of those drives you slide in and out of your computer) and now the computer is not showing it at all. Just looked under My Computer and it's not there.
Just wondering how screwed I am now. Should close the garage door and I fireup the old car, or is there a way to resue that drive?

apit34356 wrote on 9/14/2004, 12:38 PM

Maybe, sorry about the general response. post as much info you can, but try a compete powerdown for a couple of minutes, unplug all powercords as well, after 5 minutes, repower up. I'm gotta to go a meeting, will check back later. There has been a couple of posts two, three weeks ago about drive failures. Check also the DMN forum. Good luck, may the solution be simple.

musman wrote on 9/14/2004, 10:02 PM

I called the people who built the computer and they said the humming was probably the fan of the databridge, not the hard drive itself. So he take the unit out and try to clean out the dust. Therein was tyhe problem- I had done this the night before and the databridge had not been installed properly. Actually, the whole unit is a bit of a mess, so it seemed like it was in right, but it wasn't.
So, I took the databridge out and plugged in the hard drive directly into the computer- which meant having it more or less dangling out of the computer. I bought an external firewire drive and backed up the files of the project on it, so hopefully I'm going to be okay now. I did nearly had a heart attack when I plugged in the drive that was in the databridge the first time after I had bypassed the databridge case and it still didn't show up. Apparently a cable was loose.
Anyway, thanks for the help, I appreciate it.

johnmeyer wrote on 9/15/2004, 8:43 AM

I was about to write and suggest that you check the fans. I posted a few weeks ago about a drive that had started making noise. Turned out it was the fan.

To fix it, you can peel the sticker off the center of the fan where the motor is. Behind that you will find a small rubber grommet. You can pry this out with an Exacto knife or even a paperclip. This exposes the bearing. Get some light grease -- Lubriplate is the correct stuff to use, but anything, preferably not petroleum based, will do. Put a small amount in there, stuff the rubber grommet back in, put the sticker back in place and you should be good for another 50,000 miles, or 1,000 hours of video editing, whichever comes first.