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Offline Stealth

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Reply #20 on: December 28, 2002, 05:44:30 pm
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Well then it would be that he had connections, not that compaq recovers anyones drives then, wouldn't it?


no, it would be that you have to go to a compaq outlet, and ask around there.

actually now that i think of it, i believe Compaq's headquarters is (was!?) in Houston, because we've got the Compaq center, and downtown there's a massive compaq buildling, and then closer to my home there's a Compaq outlet, and i know of another big one, like a warehouse, it's got its own streets and stuff it's so big.  i think all the scientists that design and work on plans for hard drives, computers, and stuff are here, and i think my friend took it to one of these people (which he knew) to have it fixed.

nonetheless, i'm sure it's a lead you should follow :nod: :)
 

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Reply #21 on: December 28, 2002, 07:54:55 pm
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Originally posted by mikhael
The main drive in my fileserver decided to die today, in the middle of a write.

It took with it almost every creative idea I've ever had, every single piece of source code I've ever written, every bit of my email, resumes, documentation, graphical work and all my Truespace models, scenes and textures AND all the renders thereof.

Oh yeah: and the backups? Both this months and last months are corrupt. Alternating media is NOT A1 SUPAR.


Awww man, that's bad. :( I've had this happen to me too, once... it's a pain. But don't worry, you'll rebuild; even if you don't really mean to, just keep living. You've got us... ;)
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Offline Stunaep

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Reply #22 on: December 29, 2002, 06:49:19 am
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Originally posted by Stealth
once it happened to me, only once (thankfully) and all i lost was about 3000 MP3s...


my friend lost about 7000 MP3s, dozens of programs, and all his work files... heh

good thing Compaq was able to recover it

Oh, and the drive wasn't a compaq drive either... he hates compaq, it was a western digital drive he'd bought and installed in the computer he built, but his friend at Compaq did it for him

7000 mp3s!!!! thats some 15-16 gigs!!! :jaw:

no wonder why HD drives continually increase in size. this is a serious case  of HD abuse. :wtf:
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Offline kode

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Reply #23 on: December 29, 2002, 07:50:30 am
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Originally posted by Stunaep

7000 mp3s!!!! thats some 15-16 gigs!!! :jaw:

no wonder why HD drives continually increase in size. this is a serious case  of HD abuse. :wtf:


I don't know if it is... I've got about 16 gigs, which to me is 2200 mp3s... But then I've got some marathon trance discs too... 75 minutes each... but yeah... possibly.

And yeah, it is HD abuse. I'm kind of ashamed of it...
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Offline Stealth

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Reply #24 on: December 29, 2002, 04:41:03 pm
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Originally posted by kode

And yeah, it is HD abuse. I'm kind of ashamed of it...


no it's not.. Hard Drives are meant to store information.  MP3s are meant to be downloaded/ripped :D :nod:

yeah, i've only got 3000 or so, but out of those 3000 only about 2500 are downloaded, the rest are ripped from my CDs.  i've also got quite a few soundtracks (fellowship of the ring, xXx, two towers (my latest download... 19 tracks), star wars soundtracks, etc.) which constitute quite a few of the songs :D
 

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Reply #25 on: December 30, 2002, 12:50:48 pm
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it was a western digital drive he'd bought and installed in the computer he built, but his friend at Compaq did it for him


No wonder it failed.  POS Western Digital.  I had four out of five drives from them fail on me.  You couldn't PAY me to get another drive from them.  *pats his 45 gigger from IBM*  I'm gonna get a Maxtor in a few days since I don't like having only one hard drive. :)
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Reply #26 on: December 30, 2002, 12:57:32 pm
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I'm gonna get a Maxtor in a few days since I don't like having only one hard drive. :)


"Anything beyond a 20 gigabyte hard disk will just end up as an extension to your recycle bin" :)
 

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Reply #27 on: December 30, 2002, 12:58:50 pm
I have two IBM 75GB ata100s; one came with the computer and I picked up a second one cheap from a garage sale. Of course, I have only used up 60GB total so far, but it's always nice to have extra room. :D They have been working quite well so far without any failures or anything, although I do remember having this sudden hard drive crash experience on an older computer one or two times; this is one of the worst things that can happen to a person IMO if there are no backups.
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Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #28 on: December 30, 2002, 01:04:23 pm
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"Anything beyond a 20 gigabyte hard disk will just end up as an extension to your recycle bin" :)


Nah, it'll be used for a Linux install and for backup storage when necessary.
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Reply #29 on: December 30, 2002, 01:11:10 pm
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Nah, it'll be used for a Linux install and for backup storage when necessary.


You're right about that. Backups are good.

*Thinks about last year*

*shrugs*
 

Offline kode

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Reply #30 on: December 30, 2002, 02:07:34 pm
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No wonder it failed.  POS Western Digital.  I had four out of five drives from them fail on me.  You couldn't PAY me to get another drive from them.  *pats his 45 gigger from IBM*  I'm gonna get a Maxtor in a few days since I don't like having only one hard drive. :)


*pat's two IBM 20 giggers, one IBM 40 gigger, one IBM 80 gigger*
The best hard disk investments I've ever made. And some people says IBM is teh crap. I say it's not. Western Digital however, is a totally different story...
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Reply #31 on: December 30, 2002, 09:30:47 pm
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I picked up a second one cheap from a garage sale.


I have yet to find any cheap internal (good) computer component at a garage sale :( :(

they're always either too old to be of use, or too expensive
 

Offline Vertigo1

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Reply #32 on: January 01, 2003, 05:15:21 pm
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Originally posted by kode


*pat's two IBM 20 giggers, one IBM 40 gigger, one IBM 80 gigger*
The best hard disk investments I've ever made. And some people says IBM is teh crap. I say it's not. Western Digital however, is a totally different story...


To be fair, alot of IBM 75GXP's have been failing, but thats only because people are too damned ignorant to have proper airflow in their cases.
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Offline kode

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Reply #33 on: January 02, 2003, 08:07:31 am
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Originally posted by Vertigo1


To be fair, alot of IBM 75GXP's have been failing, but thats only because people are too damned ignorant to have proper airflow in their cases.


well... given the right/wrong circumstances, everything fails.
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