Disklavier

There seems to be an emerging trend with respect to SSD failures… that when they fail, they fail instantly. A mechanical HD would typically start causing problems and throwing out errors, giving you some time (days or weeks) to deal with it. Not so with SSD. A simple Google of “SSD failure” will pop up a concerning list of articles.

For those who aren’t sure what I’m talking about, you have nothing to worry about… your piano, if it has a HD, has a mechanical old-school one.  For those of us who’ve done an upgrade from mechanical to SSD, this is an issue.

Sidenote: upgrading the HD makes your piano perform wonderfully.  Boot times are measured in seconds, not minutes.  Jumping around menus goes from annoying to instant. Far more storage space.

The issue that it could die at any moment, though, throws a bit of a snag into things. It’s not so simple to back-up that entire drive. Its contents, sure… but if my SSD died now, I’d have to be reverting to the disk image I manually made before I did the upgrade. And I’d lose any new content that I hadn’t backed up, and would have to restore it.

So……. suggestions? Anyone know of a good way to backup the piano’s HD without physically removing it and mounting it on an external machine?  In a perfect world, DKVBrowser would have an option to [Create HD image] and with one keystroke, you could keep a backup on a computer and simply image a new SSD when needed.  Hey Kevin, are you reading this?! :)  Is that feasible?  Is there a better way? Another way?

…..HK