The Eponymous Album Update #5 | The Crash

Today I set up the gear as usual to begin recording the last couple songs. I plugged in the external drive to the power supply but didn’t hear any startup noises.  I thought it was strange.  I tried a few thing and decided to investigate. I unplugged the eSATA wire and tried it… nothing.  I then tried a different power supply… nothing.

I was beginning to worry now.  You see, that was everything I had ever done. It had live sessions… it even had Pro Tools sessions-I stopped using Pro Tools years ago. The drive was basically my backup of all musical data. I had been feeling the need to back up lately, however, I am an artist, I have no money for things like that-or so the thoughts went. I then popped open various other external drives and put this drive in…dead! nothing. There is no sound, nothing. As you can imagine, I just about crapped soiled my pants.

I called DriveSavers ( being a PPA member gets me a 20% discount).  They were nice enough until I got the quote… $700-$2700. Yikes!  The fella said that the evaluation is free. He said they would send a box via Fedex Next day. He informed me that they pay for shipping to and from, even if the free estimate is rejected by you.  All you do is put the drive in the box, add a drive to have them put the data on in the box as well, and send it off.

I really can’t pay the kind of money they quoted me.  My prayer is that it will be something simple enough in the inspection that there is no charge. It really sucks, but basically you need two spare drives for every main drive. the two drives should be rotated and one kept off the premises. That is expensive, especially considering the rate I fill up hard drives with data.

I have learned enough to have my main Mac (Macbook Pro) set up with Time Machine.  It is so simple!  The problem is every time I dig into either of my MacBook Pro’s and change the hard drives to a bigger size, I have to change the Time machine drives to a bigger size.  It is a crazy thing… data.

It was suggested I take donations to help ease the pain of the repair. Should you choose to donate to the recovery, an account has been set up for “Hard Drive Recovery”, you can do so here: