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Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing?

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Joe Kotroczo wrote
> GMAN wrote
>> Joe Kotroczokotroczo@mac.com wrote
>>> jeff wrote

>>>> When you say for free, do you mean a returned new drive with your
>>>> data from your old drive on it? Did they send you a 1.5TB drive too?

>>>> Hope I can have the same luck. Is there an article referencing
>>>> seagates 1.5 tb firmware issues so I can reference that?

>>> You don't have a Firmware issue. Rotational Scarring only occurs through impacting the head sliders onto the 
>>> platters while the platters rotate.

>> The company that quoted rotational scarring may have used that as
>> some generic excuse that the drive is beyong their capacity to fix.

> Why would they use such a specific diagnosis as a "generic excuse"?

Because its the sort of damage that no one can argue about being a drive
that the data cant be retrieved from at anything but an outrageous price and
even then it can only be recovered from the areas what havent be gouged.

>> I doubt he had 3 drives suffer the same rotational scarring by themselves out of thin air.

> How do you know?

Basic statistics. It doesnt happen to that high a percentage of drives,
so its very very unlikely that that is what happened to your 3 drives.

> Did you open the drives and had a look

You dont need to do that to know that its very unlikely to be true with 3 drives from one individual.

> (as the company doing the diagnosis surely must have done,

You dont know that either.

> as opening the drives is IMHO the only way to arrive at a diagnosis of rotational scarring)?

Or they can lie about why they couldnt recover the data.

> Who said anything about "by themselves out of thin air"? If he's really got 3 drives which headcrashed at the same 
> time,

Doesnt happen.

> I'd say someone kicked his NAS down the stairs while it was running...

Its bloody unlikely that if that had happened, that he wouldnt have said that that had happened.

> But that's pure speculation, maybe the OP can elaborate.

Bet he doesnt say it was anything like that. 

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Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "jeff" <jeff@aol.com> - 2012-01-01 13:30 -0500
  Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-01 20:36 +0000
    Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "jeff" <jeff@aol.com> - 2012-01-02 01:56 -0500
      Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-02 08:42 +0000
        Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-02 17:54 +0000
          Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-02 22:19 +0000
            Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-03 17:33 +0000
      Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-02 17:45 +0000
      Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Joe Kotroczo <kotroczo@mac.com> - 2012-01-02 21:16 +0100
        Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-03 17:30 +0000
          Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Joe Kotroczo <kotroczo@mac.com> - 2012-01-04 03:26 +0000
            Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-04 17:10 +1100
            Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-04 17:25 +0000
              Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Joe Kotroczo <kotroczo@mac.com> - 2012-01-04 17:45 +0000
                Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-04 18:39 +0000
                Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "jeff" <jeff@aol.com> - 2012-01-05 17:41 -0500
                Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Joe Kotroczo <kotroczo@mac.com> - 2012-01-05 23:41 +0000
                Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-06 17:45 +1100
                Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Winniethepooh@100acrewoods.net (GMAN) - 2012-01-06 16:43 +0000
  Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-02 07:52 +1100
  Re: Rotational Scaring/ Can I at least see the files Im losing? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-02 08:41 +0000

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