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  • Need urgent advice here regarding crashed sample drive

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    Hi to the forum,

    I'm getting close to finishing the CD commercial project that I have mentioned before, but my internal extra SATA drive has crashed, and I need a new one. On my main C drive I have 889 gigs free of the 931 gigs that is on the hard drive. I know we are recommended to stream the samples from another disc as I did have, but would it be temporarily ok to transfer them to my main C drive disc and stream from there?

    I also have a non-energy saving disc drive, and I also have a Western Digital WD Caviar Blue 3.5" 500GB SATA 6.0Gb/s 7200RPM 16MB HDD (WD5000AAKX) hard drive, that is external, and I could connect that via one of those fast blue cable usb connections to my computer also.

    Which would be the best way to go until I get a new Data drive?

    Thanks for any info/help/advice someone can offer here.

    best,

    Steve.
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    Steve, When you say crashed, has it failed or are you getting alarms that it is failing? Either way, I'm assuming you've already backed up that "extra SATA drive"...? First I'd try the external via that "fast blue cable" (USB-3). If you don't care for those results, I wouldn't hesitate to use (YOUR) C drive. As of now you're using less than 5 percent of it, and this is an EMERGENCY. You didn't say if the "non-energy saving disc" was internal or external. If it's SATA then go with it. Most importantly, TRUST YOUR EARS. Transfer the data, have a listen, if it sounds off, try something else. Regards, Mike B.
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    Hi Mike,

    thanks so much for your help here and the advice. I do appreciate that greatly!

    Good news is that I ended up buying a new SATA drive and I'm transferring the vsl sample files to that and hopefully I will be up and running vsl again soon.

    Thanks again for your help here.

    best,

    Steve[:D]
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    I didn't think that was an immediate option. It was the obvious and correct choice.
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    Hi Mike,

    It was good to know that if I was not able to get hold of a replacement hard drive straight away, that your very helpful suggestion was something that would be a solution I could use to help me out until I did get one. Hopefully I won't have another hard drive problem like this for a while.

    Thanks again for your help and advice Mike. Much appreciated!

    best regards,

    Steve[:D]
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    Great, now finish that project...
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    @Steve Martin said:

    Hi Mike,

    It was good to know that if I was not able to get hold of a replacement hard drive straight away, that your very helpful suggestion was something that would be a solution I could use to help me out until I did get one. Hopefully I won't have another hard drive problem like this for a while.

    Thanks again for your help and advice Mike. Much appreciated!

    best regards,

    Steve

     

     Two pieces of advice for you:

    1. Get a hard drive dock and a spare SATA drive and clone your OS drive. That way if the OS drive fails, you can be up and running again in 10 minutes.
    2. Get a spare SATA drive and back up your sample drive. Not only can you be up and running again in 10 minutes, should your sample drive fail, but you won't have to spend hours installing all those pesky samples again from DVD.

    DG
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    Hi Mike and DG,

    thanks for your support and help here. Well, that sounds like a really good idea DG. To be up and running in again in a short time if this happens again would certainly be really great.

    thanks and best,

    Steve.
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    Yes DG gives very solid advice. Backup, backup, then backup again.