[Shop-talk] OT flash drives

[old dirtbeard]

Hi Tim,

I think you got some good advice on what to try to retrieve the data, and
your last sentence is the solution:

              Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I
won't have to deal with this PITA process.

I would sign-up today for Google or O365 and move everything to One Drive
or Google Drive.

best,

doug


On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 5:26 AM Tim . via Shop-talk <
shop-talk at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Sending this inquiry to you all since I know there are more than a few IT
> guys in this group.....
>
> I bought three 512GB flash drives for archiving here at work. One locked
> up in each of our offices and one for me to add to files as necessary as
> files are amended. They have approximately 450GB on them.
>
> One of the three failed as soon as I finished filling it. I bought a
> different brand and made a replacement copy for the safe in our Madison
> office. A second, the same brand as the first one that failed is locked up
> in our MKE office and will also be replaced now because the third one (the
> one that has amended archived files) is also failing. I am having a hard
> time retrieving the amended files before this drive takes a final crap on
> me. It took over 15 hours to pull one 87MB file from the dying drive. I
> can't even attempt to pull more than one file at a time. Not that this
> should matter, but the files are mixed word, pdf, saved outlook emails and
> miscellaneous audio or video files and possibly other items.
>
> What I am wondering/hoping is that someone might know of a solution to
> this nearly impossible retrieval process. Or am I just screwed here?
>
> Next year we will be storing everything in the cloud so I won't have to
> deal with this PITA process.
>
> Thanks
> tim
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