C: Drive crash

[Julio Di Benedetto]

My main storage drive failed yesterday.  It had been misbehaving for a bit by not being seen by my computer.  Would require me to manually switch it off and on again for the drive to show up on my desktop.  Back it goes to the manufacture for repairs and recovery if need be.

The drive was backed up though I may have lost yesterdays recordings as I did not save those before the drive failed.

What Ive been doing for a few years now is creating versions of a track as it progresses....so version 1, version 2, 3 etc, and I will create a version when I feel a fair amount of development with the music has occurred. On average about 6 to 8 versions of the track, 8 being the completed piece of music.  The main reason for this is because Logic X is known to create corrupted files that will not load up so the music arrangement is gone.  If the latest version of the track is corrupted then I can go back to the previous version and start from there again.  If there was just one arrangement of the track the only way to restore the track would be rebuild it from scratch with the original audio files...a bit of a pain because Ive done it.

As far as the failed drive is concerned....the last backed up version of the current piece of music Im working on is version 4,  yesterdays was at version 6, so if the drive was never to be restored again I can continue from V4.  Even if your Daw is solid this method of working can be a really blessing.  Its also interesting to go back through the different versions of a track a see / hear its evolution. 

[Julio Di Benedetto]

Thought I would post the email from Glyph Tech support that has a list of suggestions for a health drive.

I found your internal disk to be mildly corrupted and at 99% health.
The corruption was keeping it from mounting. Here are a few things you can do to prevent data corruption.

-Take the drive out of spotlight so it's not being indexed constantly.
- Run First Aid after sessions.
-Run Disk Warrior more frequently, like once a week.
-don't let the computer fall asleep with the drive attached
-Properly eject the drive every time, waiting 10 seconds after the ejection to let the computer close the disk out.
-Keep more backups! This is super important, as I'm sure you know.
Your data is intact an I am replacing the disk.