(TV) Lost All My Television/T.V. Recordings (& The VU too) / Q

["Leo Casey" <LeoCasey@comcast.net>]

I am not sure if we are still not supposed to talk about live Television
recordings on this Mailing List or not (Philip?). But I'm taking the plunge!

 

I recently lost all my Television (& Verlaine) recordings when my Seagate
External hard drive died (a total of 470 GB of FLACs, wavs, and VOB vid
files).  

 

I took the drive to Micro Center on Memorial Drive in Cambridge. They said
they no longer do/attempt data recovery, but that they would snail-mail my
drive to a company called Data Tech Labs (DTL) in downtown Boston who are
Data Recovery Specialists. But they said that before they could snail-mail
the drive, DTL required Micro Center to collect from me a deposit of $700.
(This deposit would be returned to me if the data/music files turned out to
be retrievable, but for some reason I decide not to go forward with the
retrieval. So, I forked over $700 .....I mean music is important, right? :>)

 

About 4 days later, I got a phone call from DTL telling me that the data on
my failed drive could be retrieved. When I asked how much it would cost, the
man said, "$700.". Even for a Television/T.V. nut like me, such a sum gave
me pause. I decided not to proceed. 

 

This story does, however, have a happy ending. 

In the early 2000s, I had always worried about the possibility of losing all
my music files if a drive were to fail; so, I had bought TWO separate
External hard drives, and put copies of all my Television/TV music/video
files on both drives. So, I still had one working drive with my music files.

 

I bought a new External hard drive (cap. 1 Tetra Byte), and copied all of
the files on my surviving External hard drive to my brand new one (done
automatically while I slept). 

 

The only bad thing was that all of my files of my rare live Velvet
Underground shows that I had several years ago copied from S, Rovner's "The
Big One" were lost, as they had only been put on one of my External hard
drives, and unfortunately, that was the drive that failed.

 

Question: Do other serious collectors on this mailing List (and the other
mailing list) put their most precious data on a "Cloud",? And is it an
expensive proposition to store stuff on a "Cloud"l?

 

      Leo


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