OK, I knew this was going to happen... I've waited forever to use a backup service to store a backup of my photos/videos outside my home. I was just about ready to use Jungle Disk w/ Amazon's hosting service.
I've been copying my data between network drives to consolidate the data and get the drives ready to mirror. Then...my drive with most of my family vids died. Fortunately, it doesn't sound like a full hardware failure, the drive doesn't make noise. It's a LaCie enclosure that appears to use some type of h/w encryption, so it's not as simple as changing out enclosures, I already tried that with no success.
My next step is to use SpinRite to attempt a bit for bit recovery. I've had some extremely good success with that in the past. However, if that fails, I'm ready to pay the money to have the drive recovered. Does anyone here have a recovery service that they've used with success? I know there's a bunch from googling, but I'd prefer it if I had referral.
Thanks. Wish me luck...
