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Post by ninworks on Mar 3, 2021 17:05:16 GMT -5
I'm having a rash of equipment failures all of a sudden. First it was the Focusrite ISA428 mic preamp. Next was my Yamaha KX88 MIDI keyboard controller. Now one of me external 1TB hard drives is failing. I have LOTS of stuff on there. Not-to-mention I just spent the last 10 days installing sample libraries onto it. ARRRG..... I don't want to have to do that again anytime soon but it may come to that. The drive is still working a little bit but keeps going offline after about 5 minutes. I'm hoping it's because it was being used a lot today and maybe after it cools down I can transfer stuff from it before it dies completely. I ordered a 1TB SSD from Amazon and it's supposed to be here Friday. I'm going to leave the other drive off until I get the new one installed and formatted. Then I hope I can transfer some files.
I really can't complain about that drive. It's 13 years old and that's a long life for a hard drive. The typically last about 5 years. If it does quit communicating with the USB bus I'm going to try taking it out of it's box and installing it directly into my computer to see if I can access it. I think the drive is working but the controller that talks to the bus is having issues. Crossing my fingers.
Okay, what's going to break next?
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Post by Auf Kiltre on Mar 3, 2021 17:46:01 GMT -5
Hopefully you can get it all transferred to a new drive before critical failure. I have my stuff on my DAW SSD and an external Glyph drive which is getting on in age (9 years). I have been pretty fanatic about backing up and also have most backed up to larger thumb drives but need to spend some time cleaning up duplicates and organizing.
Fingers crossed that you won't lose anything.
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Post by Peegoo 🏁 on Mar 3, 2021 19:49:22 GMT -5
I hope you can get to it all to save it to a more reliable warehouse.
"If you don't have your data stored in three places, it does not exist."
I cannot remember who said that; I think it may have been Ray Kurzweil back in the 1980s.
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Post by ninworks on Mar 3, 2021 21:16:10 GMT -5
I had almost all of it backed up on 2 other drives but one of them croaked a couple months ago. This is my last backup drive. All the rest is stored on the main 2TB drive in my computer. There are a few things on the failing drive that are not on the other machine but it wouldn't be catastrophic if I lost them.
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Post by ninworks on Mar 6, 2021 17:51:11 GMT -5
I got a new external SSD to put my stuff onto. So far, so good. Everything is working at this point.
There's one weird thing that I have never seen or noticed before. After copying a folder with a lot of .wav files in it to the SSD the file size on it is larger than it was on the hard drive. If I do a 'Properties' on a folder it shows a "Size" and a "Size On Disk." The "Size" is the same but the "Size On Disk" is larger on the SSD than it is on the hard drive. That's weird. Anybody know anything about that?
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Post by ninworks on Mar 8, 2021 16:46:38 GMT -5
The fun never stops. The Focusrite ISA428 I had repaired a few weeks ago has failed again. The tech who worked on it will not return my calls or text messages. What a jerk. I had no choice but to box it up and send it to Mississippi to a factory authorized Focusrite service center for repair. I always love paying twice for getting something fixed once......plus shipping and a boat load of insurance. Hopefully these guys can make it STAY fixed for more than one recording session.
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Post by stl80 on Mar 8, 2021 17:27:06 GMT -5
Dang.
Jim
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Post by ninworks on Mar 14, 2021 6:07:23 GMT -5
Good news. I was able to repair my old Yamaha KX88 MIDI controller keyboard myself. I took it apart, removed the PCB, soldered in the replacement battery, and cleaned all the Function faders. Then I did a factory reset on the unit. I ran all the on-board diagnostics and everything passed. WHOOPIE!!
It cost me $15 for the battery, $11 for some fader lube, and a little time. The local electronics tech I called at the beginning of this mess had a 6 week back-log and was moving his shop. It would have taken him a couple months just to look at it. I'm glad I didn't have to wait that long and pay him a couple hundred bucks to fix it.
I have zero electronics training so this is a big deal for me. I have a good friend in Phoenix who has been an electrical music equipment tech for 40-something years and he helped me with the diagnostics. I can usually do the actual repairs but diagnosing the problem is where I have problems. My understanding of circuit design is very limited.
My next electronic repair will be my solid state Leslie 760. It keeps blowing the fuse and the amplifier for the treble rotor horn cuts out. Then I need to repair the chorus generator on my Hammond RT-3. It works but is acting weird. These are not a priority and can wait. I have more pressing things that require my attention. Just ask my wife.
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Post by oldfartbassplayrwalt on Mar 14, 2021 16:27:54 GMT -5
"the SSD the file size on it is larger than it was on the hard drive"
I'm retired from computers, but shards of my memory (hah!) seem to recall something like
different media may be formatted to have different sized blocks of accessible memory.
So for a stupid simple contrived example say you have a 312 byte file to store;
on media that has 256 byte blocks, it will take up two blocks, for 512 byte 'size'
on media that has 1024 byte blocks, it will take up one block, but with a 1024 byte 'size'
does this make sense?
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Post by ninworks on Mar 14, 2021 21:31:02 GMT -5
It does. I had just never noticed that before.
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