Lost My TimeMachine Drive This Morning
This morning I plugged my SimpleTech 1TB ProDrive into my MacBook Pro, and it wasn't there. I took apart the case, there's no loose wires, it's just a dead drive. Sad, but true. It's really sad to me because I've been moving that data from drive to drive since the beginning of TimeMachine from Apple. That's several years of data. All gone. Sad.
To be honest, it's not something that I used all the time. I did use it to restore from a dead laptop drive, and I'll be sure to get another tonight, so I can get it all backed up in the morning, but I didn't really go back in time all that much. I have all my source code in cvs or git, so I'm not losing anything there, but it's still the thought of all that data - now gone.
So I'm looking at the LaCie and the G-Tech drives, and while I like that the LaCie drives are wildly popular on the reviews, I haven't had a lot of luck with them, and I see I'm not alone. There are a lot of folks that this G-Tech isn't all that great, and there was talk of a series of bad drives, but I'm guessing that's over.
It's all going to come down to what's at the Apple Store, but I know they have the LaCie and the G-Tech, but I think I'm leaning towards G-Tech as they have a lot of FireWire 800, and I want to get back to that for the speed, and I've heard several good things from friends about the G-Tech drives. I think it's worth a shot.
I'm very sad that there's no way to get that data off the drive. In very real terms, it's not worth much, but it would have been nice to have replaced the drive last weekend, and gotten all the data off. But that's OK. I got a lot of good out of it, and now it's time to move on.