I can hear the hard drive clunking so i guess its time to pull it and do a reload. Mirroring is great and all but its still going to be a pain. See you all later.
if you need anything, pm me. I have software and stuff for Hard drives.....
Is this the drive you bought on Ebay?
Awwww....
Well, its back up and running. I had a 40 gig drive in the computer and there was a power failure earlier while I was working and it killed the old drive. Now I have a new 60 gig as my C drive and added an extra 120 gig drive. Everything was backed up so there was no loss. Its just a pain having to reload and configure everything again. Its been over a year with no problems.
1.5TB (6x250 gig)keeps me quite happy
never had a drive fail on me, i only buy WesternDIgital and Maxtor drives though
2 out of 2 Maxtor drives have failed on me. Both were still under warranty, but its worth an extra few dollars to me to buy a drive that won't fail as easily. Like Scott said, its a real pain to rebuild, even when you are backed up. I've only had one Western Digital drive fail on me, out of 4 or so I guess, never had a Fujitsu drive fail on me (still have 540 MB drive from about '93 running strong in an old linux box), never had an IBM drive fail on me.
okay the deal is HEAT. I've been through around 20 or 30 drives over the 12 years of computing...starting from a RLL Seagate Drive....buy some drive coolers for your drives(the kind that bolt to the bottom of the drive--cools the underside electronics and servos), i have for the last few years and as long as they stay cool, problems are reduced. Mine are very cool to the touch. I've been studying the temp-failure relationship for a bit....just my 2 cents
just as a addition to my earlier post, search Google for HDDTemperature. It's a freeware(maybe shareware program) that will tell you drive temperature...drives hate to be around 55C, but the lower--the better.
QUOTE (opera guy @ Feb 21 2005, 06:01 PM) |
1.5TB (6x250 gig)keeps me quite happy never had a drive fail on me, i only buy WesternDIgital and Maxtor drives though |
whats that? H-drive
Scotty Boy.you have tooo much Britney porn on your PC.........Git it' gon'
QUOTE (McMark @ Feb 21 2005, 06:36 PM) | ||
What in the world do you store on 1.5 TB?! Nobody needs THAT much porn! |
its funny you mention the heat thing my computer ( 6 months old ) was bought from a company who builds computers. they had an ebay shop but ebay kicked em off due to too many comlants about slow delivery ( mine took 6 weeks ) but its a 2.2 gig amd chip and board set, that came with 128 ram, 64 ( i think ) cd, 40 gig hd, a fan through the clear side cover, fan on back, . for 150 bucks. my only complant was no op system. but when i go in to the system stuff on start up, it has a cpu temp a system temp, an out side temp ( read off incoming air on fan). and a hd temp, none of the temps ever are above room temp except the cpu that stays around 37 celius. one feature i have never seen before is an option during the start up system stuff is i can set an over speed clock that slows the clock when the cpu reaches 40 degrees. it would allow me to run up to a 2.8 gig clock speed, but i dont use it because i want this computer to last
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