VinylRecords - Slashdot User

Submission + - How to recover data from a dead hard drive?

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VinylRecords

on Saturday December 06, 2008 @11:01PM

VinylRecords writes: "I have many external hard drives, all of them are NTFS/FAT32 external USB drives. Recently one of these drives died, a 500GB drive that had loads of data that I desperately need to recover.

I have no expertise in data recovery and I am going to need a professional service. I live in New York.

What do people do when a hard drive fails? Also, what hard drives should I be using to store data externally? I need well over 1000GB if not 3TB worth of space. Would I need to buy solid state drives? Or just better external drives? Which ones should I buy?

What are the cheapest drive recovery solutions? Expensive ones? Cheapest drives? Best and costliest drives?

Thanks."

Submission + - Usenet Access from Timer Warner being eliminated (dslreports.com) 3

Submitted by VinylRecords on Friday June 06, 2008 @10:52PM

VinylRecords writes: "An internal tipster drops me a line to note that Time Warner Cable/Roadrunner will be eliminating newsgroup access. The newsgroup ax is expected to fall before the end of the month, and my source says that an official announcement should go up on the Roadrunner website sometime around the sixteenth. Roadrunner has actually held on for some time, given many broadband ISPs stopped offering newsgroup access several years ago."

The first year I attended College I new being with Usenet would destroy my mind, so I got a year's worth of Giganews. Giganews was so amazing I decided to keep the Usenet subscription even though I eventually purchased a home with Time Warner as my ISP. How many people at Slashdot still use Usenet? Do you have a dedicated Usenet provider? Or do you access Usenet through your ISP's service?

To me this seems like a big step backwards for internet technology. Already alarming enough is that Time Warner, and MANY other ISPs have been accused of bandwidth throttling, and many ISPs are testing out a monthly bandwidth cap for subscribers with penalties if the user goes over his or her monthly GB limit. This isn't the end of the internet, but it's certainly troubling.

Submission + - Time Warner to test charging for Bandwidth (msn.com)

Submitted by VinylRecords on Monday June 02, 2008 @09:02PM

VinylRecords writes: From the Associated Press: On Thursday, new Time Warner Cable Internet subscribers in Beaumont, Texas, will have monthly allowances for the amount of data they upload and download. Those who go over will be charged $1 per gigabyte, a Time Warner Cable executive told the Associated Press.

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