Comments on: How to live with a failing hard drive http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/ Strategy and analysis about mobile, smartphones, tablets and connected experiences Wed, 25 Jan 2012 04:09:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Double edged clouds « Being Connected by Ian Fogg http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/#comment-62 Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:33:59 +0000 http://ianfogg.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-62 [...] wobbly hard drive on my previous laptop forced me to think about where my digital stuff lives and how often it’s backed up. Much of my important, frequently changing documents no longer live just on my hard drive and so [...]

]]> By: Michael Stevens http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/#comment-25 Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:21:26 +0000 http://ianfogg.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-25 I have a http://www.rebit.com/ device, it’s kinda a windows time machine equivalent.

I had a few problems with purchase and initial use, but now it’s settled down it’s wonderfully transparent. I’ve not had to restore anything yet, though.

If you don’t hit the kinks, installation is pretty much plugging it into a USB port and clicking “Yes I want to backup my computer”.

]]> By: ianfogg http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/#comment-10 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:52:16 +0000 http://ianfogg.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-10 Ben – thanks for the reminder, heard of it, not tried it yet. Now is the time.

Nick – Yup. Only problem is that this machine is a MacBook Air so securing a new hard drive is hard. This is a major downside of the Air.

]]> By: Nick R http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/#comment-7 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:44:49 +0000 http://ianfogg.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-7 Life will indeed be much easier if you have a second Leopard. If you are sure the disk is on its way out, I might be tempted to buy the replacement drive now and be ready to install it at fail time. Then you’ll be back to where you were much more rapidly. (It might also make sense to preinstall a fresh copy of Leopard on it, if you have an empty USB enclosure, because the drive will no doubt fail exactly when you have a fast approaching deadline…)

I use a Capsule to run TM on my MBA and my wife’s older MacBook. This has worked well and I have done a practice restore from scratch. I also run TM from my Mac Pro to an external LaCie FW drive. This has been much spottier – TM has started to fail several times, so I’ve had to futz around to get it working again – on one occasion losing all previous backups. But I think this is a LaCie issue as much as it is a TM issue.

Of course, all hard drives are failing hard drives.

]]> By: Ben L http://ianfogg.com/2008/11/10/how-to-live-with-a-failing-hard-drive/#comment-4 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:07:00 +0000 http://ianfogg.wordpress.com/?p=38#comment-4 Try SugarSync – it’s good for Macs, PCs and iPhones.

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