A while ago I went out and bought a 1TB Iomega drive. I did the Apple-fan special — that is — look and see what drives are available in the Apple Store (and thus, guaranteed and approved to work with my array of Macs) then I hunted for it online. Bought it. Job done.
I’ve been connecting it to my machines via Firewire and it’s been rocking for about a year and a half. I even took it to San Francisco with me although it ended up putting me way over the luggage limit. But I had my data with me.
Carrying my data around like that is really annoying. It should be in the cloud. But we’re talking almost 600gb of stuff which takes a little while to upload.
About two months ago the Iomega ‘UltraMax’ started to make funny noises. Uh oh.
“I’ll just get my data off it,” I thought, before finding that it was screwed. Completely screwed.
So having used it as a backup for a lot of my data, I begun looking around for hard disk recovering services in the area.
Until this afternoon. I plugged it in — this time via USB 2.0 — and had a look.
It’s still making horrible noises now and again, BUT I am able to access it. So I’m taking as much as possible off it right now. Phew. I’ve got the data back. Time to stick it in the cloud.
