![]() Luckily, I had started using Carbon Copy Cloner () software several years ago and had most (but not all) of the data on that drive backed up to another FW800 drive. Of course, I had mixes due, and (as usual) time was not a luxury. ![]() OK, so that drive, full of hundreds of GB of data, had just s#&* the bed. I tried to repair it several times and got data error messages. I then launched Disk Utilities on my Mac, and noted that the computer saw it, but couldn’t mount it. When I plugged it back in again, it made a mechanical noise that I had never heard-not a good thing to hear. ![]() First, I swapped FW 800 cables, just in case one had gone bad. So during a session last week, the drive (which was several years old by now) stopped showing up on my desktop. Point is, this is where all the data resided for any plug-in that would stream audio into my session. On my HD rig, I have (had) a FW 800 hard drive that contained all my sample data for large programs, ranging from East West Hollywood Strings and Vienna Symphonic Library to Spectrasonics Stylus RMX and DrumCore from Sonoma Wire Works. My home studio is a personal production room, and I have numerous audio systems, including a Pro Tools HD rig, a Mac Book Pro laptop setup and a second Pro Tools 9/ Logic/Live/Reason PowerMac for additional composition. Read on if you have that uncomfortable feeling that not all your data is backed up. Luckily, I had taken preventative steps just in case, two years earlier, that saved my bacon. Recently, I had a drive full of data stop working on me. ![]() For the most part, that hardware has moving parts that eventually stop moving. Remember that all of our software runs on hardware. On his Continuing Adventures in Software, Rich Tozzoli gets reminded of the reality of that software can’t exist in isolation. ![]()
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