So instead of asking for recommendations for computer repair, I guess I’m asking for recommendations for a guy/ place that does data recovery from a bad hard drive. Thanks.[/quote]
Not worth the cost of doing this unless the data is absolutely must save because often times what these people do is very painful and tedious. (Disassembly your hard drive, finding an identical drive, physically move the platters from your drive to one that is working, etc.) I’ve done this myself one time. It was painful and time spent versus the importance of the lost data, ended up not being worth it… Ok, maybe it was worth it since most of the videos of Evelyn Lin would have taken a long time to find again…… I’m kidding….
For your new system, besides getting an SSD as your main drive in your computer, I would also an external USB RAID drive (with 2 disk redundancy at minimum) and setup a backup schedule to regularly backup important files like pictures/videos/media to it….
I have one an older version of these:
You probably don’t need 24TB of backup storage, you can probably deal with just 12TB RAID of backup storage which would be roughly half the price of 24TB RAID… Unless you happen to collect a lot of videos of Evelyn Lin…. I’m really kidding….
In addition to the raid backup, I also backup my photos to Google Photos. if you run out of storage, create a new account each year and segment the photos per year… And for video, I upload them to YouTube private and Google Photos. Pictures and videos are backed up to the cloud and to the raid drive…… Except for the videos of Evelyn Lin, which are copyrighted and cannot be uploaded to Youtube……. I’m really kidding here….
SSD drives are great, especially for laptops because generally they are more rugged than normal hard drives. So for instance if you drop your laptop, you are less likely to crash your hard drive. However, they do fail too, and when they fail, unlike hard drives, there’s usually no early warning sign like a click-clack you often hear with a hard drive or just get a few bad sectors. Often times it’s a total failure all at once. So you definitely want to plan for that. But SSD offers significant performance. For instance, for a 2 hour long video of Evelyn Lin…seeking to the relevant parts of the video is a lot quicker and less laggy than with a normal hard drive…. I’m kidding, really….
