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I usually just buy raw drives and put them into a off the shelf case. I recently bought an empty case that can hold 5 raw drives simultaniously. I stuck 5 disks in there, now I only have 2 seperate ones externally. I have like a terrabyte of storage...but not much porn unfortunately....

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 Originally Posted By: rach
Do Buffalo actually make anything then? I thought they were this huge "making computer stuff" company...


nobody actually makes anything. there is no such thing as a Buffalo factory. this stuff, along with pretty much everything you use in daily life with some sort of corporate brand logo, is contracted and sub-contracted out to assembling facilities usually found in economic zones. the parts to be assembled are manufactured elsewhere in other near slave like situations. yeah the "new world order"!
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 Originally Posted By: Creek Boy
how much does that stuff cost to get it restored? A few hundered dollars? A grand?


There are many options out there - I have brought many disks back to life at least long enough to retrieve most, if not all of the data.

There are all kinds of tricks/voodoo - putting a disk in a freezer and thawing it out; putting it in a different computer etc. but you may also do more damage if you don't know what you are doing.

There is software that does a pretty good job of recovering data from a disk that will still spin but if it won't spin and all you hear is a click or nothing at all it can be very expensive - data recovery from damaged disks usually starts at about US $1000 - the bigger the disk, the higher the cost.
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