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March 20th, 2004, 05:46 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
man is 233 mhz slow with seiv....
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He is still driving his mighty armada at 3 miles per month along the interstellar highway bypass and will be arriving shortly
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March 20th, 2004, 06:23 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
Why do so many HD's fail so often? It is because we all play so much SEIV?
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March 20th, 2004, 06:25 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
I have never had a HD failure. Sometimes, buying the cheapest you can find is a bad, bad idea.  |
March 20th, 2004, 07:33 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
well for me it is because of renovations near the computer room
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March 20th, 2004, 11:30 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
Of about 100 hard disks I bought/sold I had 2 failures (after about 4 years of service) - both in the early days of HDs, both cheap ones - plus one 6 month old Maxtor Last year.
I also always advise to let them run rather than switching off the computer if it is for just a few hours or less. Energy saving settings for HDs are deadly. Usually HDs running 24/7 are the most reliable.
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March 20th, 2004, 01:59 PM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
Hell my 1.0 gig HD cost me $200.00 bucks back in the day and we all marvled at its storage capacity and now, it is still working and has paid for itself 10 fold.
My Last HD to fail was the one that came with this HP predessor and it was an 80 gig hard drive.
I can get a 200 gig HD for $120.00 bucks now. Less then a $1.00 a gig now. Compare that to the $200.00 a gig I paid for my 1.0 gig HD five years ago.
I think that is an astronomical decrease in price.
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March 21st, 2004, 02:41 AM
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Re: Hard Drive Failure
Quote:
Originally posted by Atrocities:
I can get a 200 gig HD for $120.00 bucks now. Less then a $1.00 a gig now. Compare that to the $200.00 a gig I paid for my 1.0 gig HD five years ago.
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Guess what prices will be in 5 years - 300 terabyte for 100$ ? Of course, Windows 3000 will need at least 20 gig HD space then...
My first hard drive I have seen was a small cabinet about 1 m high and 60x60cm in size. 40MB. Belonging a "mainframe server" with 32 Users connected to it, 2 processors with 64kB RAM each - filling several wardrobe-sized cabinets. Price something with 6 figures. Well, about 30 years ago...
Technical development in this area has really been breathtaking, faster than in any other area before. I see signs of slowing down, but not really an end. |
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