Main rig down

[Allan]

My hard drive in the main rig decided to take a dive today. Suddenly had a burning smell to it after a restart, and it doesn't spin anymore.

It is a Western Digital 120 GB, 8 MB cache, SATA drive. Recently I even recommended this drive in here. Ouch.

I'm going for an RMA but I fear the rig will be down for a week or two, so currently the XP1800+ is my main rig. I'm sure my folding will suffer from this as well. I'll be back though!

[brian770]

sorry to here that ! to bad its not a fiber connect or i would send my donater to ya and pay shipping.
good luck with rma!
brian770

[Gizmo]

Man, tough luck dude! However, things like this are why I stay away from WD drives. I've just lost too many of them over the years.

[Allan]

WOW, fast RMA. I went to the store to RMA the drive, and they just gave me a new one. I should have the main rig up and running again on Sunday. Too bad about all the lost files though.

Real men don't take backups, right??

[Daniel ~]

Now that's something you don't see to often!! Good to hear it went your way Allan!!

[Gizmo]

Naw, real men don't do backups. Real men sit down and manually re-enter all the data.


In binary.


With a front panel loader using toggle switches.


Know any real men? LOL

[Daniel ~]

Hey! My voice just went up an octave!
Like...Ekkkk!

[Allan]

Originally Posted by gizmo

Naw, real men don't do backups. Real men sit down and manually re-enter all the data.

In binary.

With a front panel loader using toggle switches.

Know any real men? LOL

01001110011011110111010000100000011011010110000101 10111001111001001000000111001001100101011000010110 11000010000001101101011001010110111000100000011011 00011001010110011001110100001000000100100100100000 01100111011101010110010101110011011100110010000100 100000001110100010110100101001

[Gizmo]

I make fun, but when I first got started in computers, my first computer was a TI - 99/4A (in 1980? Don't remember now). I remember staying up for HOURS typing in a program from a computer mag, KNOWING that if I had the slightest hiccup in power, all my hard work would be GONE! because I didn't have any way of storing the data.

Then I finally saved up enough money from soda bottles, scrap aluminum, mowing yards and shoveling snow to go get an adapter for my cassette recorder. I was in HEAVEN. Took about 30 minutes to load 4k of data, but HEY! IT WAS SAVED!

LOL.

I'll bet Daniel ~ remembers when stone tablets were invented, though.

[Daniel ~]

I sharpened the chisel...I didn't want to, they made me do it! Some things don't change...sigh...":O}

[Toro]

Originally Posted by gizmo

Naw, real men don't do backups. Real men sit down and manually re-enter all the data.


In binary.


With a front panel loader using toggle switches.


Know any real men? LOL

real men can also use punch cards (as long as they punched them)