dead hard drive[views:3813][posts:51]______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:19pm - the_reverend ""] damn it, I just had a 200GB drive from 2003 die. Maxtor diamondmax plus 9. I turn it on and when it tries to access the drive it just makes a lot of noise. the worse thing is that I was use that to sort things as I was sorting them. it had all my mp3s on it, a bunch of work stuff and a bunch of home stuff. I might have lost a few radio shows on it too. oh well. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:20pm - the_reverend ""] oh, I am going to take it home and put it in the freezer for a few hours and then try accessing it. when my maxtor 40GB died, that brought it back to life.. well.. until it heated up. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:28pm - the_reverend ""] I need to get 2 500GB drives.. that would be about $600 though.. I need those 2TB atomic chips. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:28pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] No backups? I never trust hard drives. I have multiple backups of all my useful files, my child pornogarphy, for isntance. And I did try the freezer trick once on one of my brother's notebook drives, didn't work though :( |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:31pm - the_reverend ""] my drives as it stands: laptop: 80GB internal 30GB external 32GB external home: desktop: 120GB interal 250GB interal 250GB interal 60GB external 60GB external home (mac) 40GB internal 80GB internal I also have a pile of 60's,40's, and 20's that I'm not sure what to do with. I got to melt them down. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:32pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Make a Japanese transforming fighter robot out of all of them. |
| ______________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:33pm - wade ""] the_reverend said:my drives as it stands: I also have a pile of 60's,40's, and 20's that I'm not sure what to do with. I got to melt them down. build a robot aaron. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:35pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar memory.WMV http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/ces/live-from-c...disk-from-atom-chip-corp-147086.php http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/live-from-ces-atom-photo-swirl-147155.php http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2191_v43/ai_19951759 http://www.cesweb.org/attendees/directory/...exhibitor_details.asp?exhibid=7059& |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:36pm - the_reverend ""] http://www.compu-technics.com/images/solar%20memory.WMV |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:39pm - the_reverend ""] WD did just come out with the raptor X glass top http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/...roducts.asp?DriveID=190&Language=en |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:41pm - the_reverend ""] there already was a thing I posted a long time ago in a pictures thread about a robot made of old HDs. here is one you can buy: http://www.therobotstore.com/s.nl/sc.13/category.-113/it.A/id.298/.f |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 1:55pm - the_reverend ""] Perpendicular Magnetic Recording technology. that's the term I was looking for. I need tons of that. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 2:18pm - slowlypeelingtheflesh nli ""] I have a maxtor 200 gig external and it works like a charm |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 2:23pm - succubus ""] Jan 18,2006 1:33pm - wade build a robot aaron. ~~~ i'm already on that ; ) ~~~ oh and when aaron told me about his hd dying the first thing i said was something like "after you go on and on to me about being more organized about my back ups...you didn't have this backed up"? ~~ i'm guessing you're gonna get home, put it in the freezer...and when we get back from our "date", i'm going to make jewelry and you're gonna work on the drive we're so romantic! |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 2:31pm - the_reverend ""] it will be rmantic cause we will be drunk. and by we, I mean you. cause I have to drive. you had best drink at least one more drink than me. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:11pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] I love the WD Raptor, thing is fucking fast. I don't know if I'd pay $50 extra to have the glass top though. I was checking those out a few days ago. There's a bunch of cool shit coming out for PCs soon. HDDVD, Bluray, Vista, Tuners with cablecard support, SocketAM2, perpendicular recording. Can't wait for that shit. Also some guys from Adaptec just came by and gave me the pitch on Serial attached SCSI. I've never even heard of this shit before. At any rate, they handed over a bunch of SAS controllers for me to fuck with. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:25pm - the_reverend ""] I heard about SATA SCSI like last week. I don't even remember what's the different with PATA, SATA and ATA, but if I could bet $$ on the faster one's, I would say PATA since it's both newer and everyone knows that parallel processes kick serial's ass. |
| __________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:28pm - litacore ""] I just went with Seagate to replace the master drive on my old Mac. |
| _________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:34pm - DreamingInExile ""] menstrual_sweatpants_disco said:There's a bunch of cool shit coming out for PCs soon.... Vista... :pukeface: |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:43pm - the_reverend ""] vista looks really mac-y and cool, but I don't have good enough computers for it. HDdvd and blue ray are like yawn. the concept of hard drives piss me off. I want a solid state solution in the TB's with at minimum a 3Gb bus. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:48pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] The only thing I want out of vista is cablecard support. I could really care less about everything else. And as far as how it looks... it's going to look just fine when I revert everything back to a windows2000 theme with 2 colors of grey. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 3:50pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Also, Seagate bought Maxtor recently. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:05pm - the_reverend ""] heh, I revert xp to that too. |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:10pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] Yeah, I really don't need bubble letters, fruity colors, or animated windows minimizing/maximizing. That shit just slows you down. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:11pm - the_reverend ""] I like shadows.. that's about it |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:19pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] you should try out this Emma Watson XP theme [img] |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:25pm - the_reverend ""] I don't even know who that is... |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 18,2006 4:37pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] LIES! http://forum.returntothepit.com/view.php?formid=25065 |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 3:30pm - the_reverend ""] heh, ok, now I know who she is. anyhow, I put the HD in the freezer and then was able to get a couple files off it before it started clicking again. I put it in the freezer again and I'm waiting for it to cool down again. I've taken one of carina's 3 200GB drives to back things up too. I'm thinking about just ordering this: http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=202195622&adid=17654&dcaid=17654 300GB with a case for $150. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 3:43pm - the_reverend ""] it seems like as long as I'm doing one read at a time it's ok |
| ____________________________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 4:47pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] God damn it Emma Watson is hot. |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 19,2006 5:21pm - the_reverend ""] GD, I get access to the drive for about 2-3 minutes and then I need to leave it be. I've copied a bunch of stuff off it, but my freezer is defrosting... |
| ______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 9:45am - the_reverend ""] I think I'm going to get one or 2 of these: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...ATT=22-144-392&CMP=OTC-pr1c3grabb3r |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:01am - the_reverend ""] http://www.cooldrives.com/usb-raid-enclosure-dual-drive-raid-1-mirror.html |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:04am - the_reverend ""] someone from may 2004 asking for what I'm asking for. http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/USB_20RAID |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:22am - succubus ""] we should get a mega machine at home where we store everything and then extrnal drives for backups... |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:30am - the_reverend ""] that's the thing, it's my backups that are failing. carina, I just found this, 8GB microdrive for a camera: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BO0SG...=nosim/102-2482727-9540936?n=172282 $196.64, free shipping, $40 rebate. |
| ___________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:38am - succubus ""] wow good deal i still think a new machine with our own folders and then external drives for specific uses.. i dunno but i don't have my stuff on a machine..all on extrnal drives so this is making me nervous |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 10:42am - the_reverend ""] actually, what should make you nervous is that you aren't orgonized and have things in one location only... maybe you should sort out your data tonight.. make sure your 2 drives are the same... |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 12:41pm - the_reverend ""] ok.. my work drive just died. HOW THE FUCK DO 2 200GB DRIVES DIE IN THE SAME WEEK!?! |
| _____________________________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 12:48pm - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] It's weird. They always go in pairs. Just like old married people. |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 25,2006 12:48pm - the_reverend ""] this one is a western digital one 200GB made in 2004. that's still during the warrenty! |
| _______________________________________ [Jan 26,2006 12:11pm - the_reverend ""] ok, I ordered 2 320GB drives and 2 cases (with fans) case: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817145656 drive: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16822144392 damn it... too much $$, but I need them. |
| ________________________________________ [Jan 26,2006 12:47pm - watchmaker666 ""] Thats alot of HD space for porn |
| ____________________________________ [Jan 29,2006 2:14am - infoterror ""] MAXTOR AND WESTERN DIGITAL ARE THE KATRINA EVACUEES OF HARD DRIVE MANUFACTURERS TRY SEAGATE OR HITACHI EVEN BETTER, USE CUNEIFORM NO LIE DAWG IT'S THE SCHNIZZLE |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 1,2006 11:39am - the_reverend ""] ok, I got my 2 new 320's. put them in cases and one of them was making a clicking and spinning noise last night.. oh eesh! |
| _______________________________________________ [Feb 1,2006 11:44am - slowlypeelingtheflesh ""] infoterror said:MAXTOR AND WESTERN DIGITAL ARE THE KATRINA EVACUEES OF HARD DRIVE MANUFACTURERS TRY SEAGATE OR HITACHI EVEN BETTER, USE CUNEIFORM NO LIE DAWG IT'S THE SCHNIZZLE Where the fuck does he get his material? |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 1,2006 11:54am - the_reverend ""] jewmedia zentral |
| ____________________________________________________ [Feb 1,2006 11:54am - menstrual_sweatpants_disco ""] haha, I dunno. I assumed he was joking. |
| ___________________________________ [Feb 9,2006 7:57pm - handinjury ""] I think one of my hard drives is fucked up, its making lots of noise. This sorta hi-end noise. I backed up my important files off this drive. I just installed Xp on this PC about a month ago. I would hate to have to re-install shit allover when this drive shits out. Fuck, the noise from this thing is hurting my ears, cant take it anymore, I gotta shut this puter off. |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 15,2006 1:29am - the_reverend ""] thanks so fucking much western digital. somehow a 3 year warrenty means dick. http://websupport.wdc.com/warranty/warrantyresult.asp?rnd=0873695 |
| ______________________________________ [Feb 15,2006 1:43am - the_reverend ""] yeah, thank you maxtor! https://www4.maxtor.com/en/support/service/rma/create/01_serial_number.cfm?dt= #Y60RJ6DE you also have a drive labeled with a 3-year warrenty and it's only actually got a 1 year. |