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Hi all
This was an experience i had whilst on early Covid watch, when two external hard drive suddenly stopped working, both about three years old. Three year warranties were with WD who said sadly they are over the period by month (no surprise there) but then remembered i have been paying a monthly subscription of about £1.50 to outfit in USA called "Backblaze" who have been backing up my data on the web (RAW files) for many years and unlike Amazon, Google and Dropbox they have no limits on file size or quantity.
Checked back online and found the missing files which i arranged to have downloaded (but would take months using broadband upload speeds) so they suggested i arrange to have the data transferred onto a max. 7 TB disc and they would ship over to me in UK. Option to either keep disc or use return plan.
I was sceptical about costs and import/export costs but figured i had to take a chance as local UK repairs / getting retrieved data (about 4TB) would cost in excess of £200.00 with no guarantees
The shipment arrived by Fedex - they suggested if i download the data from their disc onto my own i could return hard drive and obtain a full refund (too good to be true)
I took the chance and today found the refund in my bank equalling £180.00 which was cost of shipment from US with 4tb HD that's now been returned, with only import duties to be reclaimed from Fedex.
Total cost of reclaiming the £26.00 for shipment by Fedex back to USA assuming i can claim the import charge of £27.00.
Thought this was something everyone should be of interest unless you have already purchased a Raid or similar backup systems.
Please contact me if any info needed
Cheers
Barrie
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