My hard drives hate me.

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Dalemac · #1 Post by **Dalemac** » Tue Mar 29, 2011 6:32 pm

2 days before 3 major deadlines, and another hard drive has failed. This time it's my 1tb network drive. This joins the collection of my 64gb SSD drive which failed 2 weeks ago, and my usb drive, which failed a month ago. (+ one which i left in a computer lab at uni and some pikey nicked).

All i need now is my desktop to die, my laptop to die, and my dropbox to delete itself, and then i will have no coursework to hand in.

Fortunately i haven't lost any data yet - but at my current rate, im not holding my breath.

Dale

Viking · #2 Post by **Viking** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:19 am

Let me guess - all the dead drives were about a month out of their warranty period, right?

Dalemac · #3 Post by **Dalemac** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:36 am

Viking wrote:Let me guess - all the dead drives were about a month out of their warranty period, right?

Surprisingly, no.

The SSD was almost brand new, had only been in the pc for about 2 weeks, so that got sent back for a new one. The network drive was quite old - i bought it on 9/1/2009, however it has a 3 year warranty, hence it is getting replaced too.

The memory sticks were only cheap 4gb sandisks, not too bothered about them.

Everything just wants to fail on me before my hand in deadlines i think!

Dale

Falcopops · #4 Post by **Falcopops** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:43 am

I feel your pain, similar man against machine issues here

BikerGran · #5 Post by **BikerGran** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 6:46 pm

I think my computer is just tired!

#6 Post by **Kwackerz** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:07 pm

Just upgraded the ram in mine, added another 1GB stick, it's actually quite usable now, whereas before it was starting to struggle with things.
Quite annoyed too, a while back I added a second HDD and swapped the existing to become a second drive as it was seemingly on its way out. Bloody thing hasnt missed a beat since it became the second drive.. bloody thing.
Added a 1TB external Samsung Story Station 3.0 as well and have transferred most of the music and videos to that, again that's helped the main pooter as it's running a lot happier than it has for years

I think the secret is to change things now and again.. keep it on it's toes and visit Dabs.com now and again to remind it there's always the option of buying a new pooter..

Treat 'em mean, keep 'em keen....

Aladinsaneuk · #7 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:42 pm

Or just buy a mac Tim...

#8 Post by **Kwackerz** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:04 pm

Actually I was looking at some secondhand Mac things in Cash Convertors in Mill Road, Cambridge the other day.

I may dabble in the occult at some stage, although I'd prefer to use a PC running Linux over a Mac

'We shall see...'

Aladinsaneuk · #9 Post by **Aladinsaneuk** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:40 pm

oooo

what did they have?

I would love to get hold of a smaller mac laptop for fun :)

and i take the point about linux - i used to use mandrake before i was seduced to the dark side

#10 Post by **mangocrazy** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:46 pm

I used Mandrake (now Mandriva) for a while, but once Ubuntu came on the scene that was it as far as I was concerned. The LTS (Long Term Support) releases are particularly good.

#11 Post by **Kwackerz** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:19 pm

Cant remember what it was they had, or the prices to be honest. The missus was after a slaptop so walked in checked what they had, turned her nose up and walked out. I only had about 2 minutes to have a quick shooftie.

Didnt see any macbooks though

D-Rider · #12 Post by **D-Rider** » Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:17 pm

Yep - one of my PCs is an Ubuntu Linux machine. Linux getting better all the time - just a PITA if you want to run specific windoze apps (though windoze can be emulated)

#13 Post by **mangocrazy** » Thu Mar 31, 2011 5:53 pm

For top geek points you need to be able to install Linux on a Dead Badger. This guide will show you how...

http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/200 ... dger.shtml