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Todd H.
This is pretty damned funny actually.
First, it was the IBM Travelstar drive in my Thinkpad T23 crapping
out. Stability issues grew into the tell tale clicking of the hard
disk, and random BSOD's. This is my work laptop.
The lease provider sends a replacement drive, a Hitachi Travelstar. I
rebuild the system, and this drive dies and begins clicking within 2
days, apparently due to overheating. So the lease provider sends me
another Hitachi Travelstar. This one works happily. My laptop has be
rebuilt 2 times.
Meanwhile, that week, a buddy's Dell with an SATA Maxtor decides to
start showing bad blocks. 2 weeks of drama involing Dell's
replacement hard drive and the difficulty of transfering the
still-limping live system to the new drive ensues.
2 weeks go by. My iBook dual USB laptop at home starts acting
flakey. Why? Hard drive began clicking--obviously a failure in
progress on this 4 year old machine. I start laughing pretty hard at
this point.
So I lend out my Creative Nomad Jukebox (hard drive based mp3 player
circa 2001) to a young musician on my street to record his band. It
had started to act a wee bit flakey the last time I'd used it, but I
wasn't sure why. Poor guy, though, his drama queen ex girlfriend at
this show storms off and makes a scene, and in the process trips over
the power cord to this recording setup out in the audience area at a
private party. Unit goes crashing to the ground. When I attempt to
retrieve the music off of the unit... the hard drive starts clicking.
I open it up, a Fujitsu 6Gb 4200RPM notebook hard drive stares at me,
mocking me.
I suspect I was due, having never lost a hard drive ever before this
year, since my first hard drive bearing computer of a Heath Zenith
Z248 PC with an MFM 40Mb drive entered my world in 1989.
But dealing with 4 latop hard drives failing in my own home over the
past 2 months is pretty hilarious, 5 if you count my buddy's drive I
helped him recover. Wacky stuff.
Best Regards,
First, it was the IBM Travelstar drive in my Thinkpad T23 crapping
out. Stability issues grew into the tell tale clicking of the hard
disk, and random BSOD's. This is my work laptop.
The lease provider sends a replacement drive, a Hitachi Travelstar. I
rebuild the system, and this drive dies and begins clicking within 2
days, apparently due to overheating. So the lease provider sends me
another Hitachi Travelstar. This one works happily. My laptop has be
rebuilt 2 times.
Meanwhile, that week, a buddy's Dell with an SATA Maxtor decides to
start showing bad blocks. 2 weeks of drama involing Dell's
replacement hard drive and the difficulty of transfering the
still-limping live system to the new drive ensues.
2 weeks go by. My iBook dual USB laptop at home starts acting
flakey. Why? Hard drive began clicking--obviously a failure in
progress on this 4 year old machine. I start laughing pretty hard at
this point.
So I lend out my Creative Nomad Jukebox (hard drive based mp3 player
circa 2001) to a young musician on my street to record his band. It
had started to act a wee bit flakey the last time I'd used it, but I
wasn't sure why. Poor guy, though, his drama queen ex girlfriend at
this show storms off and makes a scene, and in the process trips over
the power cord to this recording setup out in the audience area at a
private party. Unit goes crashing to the ground. When I attempt to
retrieve the music off of the unit... the hard drive starts clicking.
I open it up, a Fujitsu 6Gb 4200RPM notebook hard drive stares at me,
mocking me.
I suspect I was due, having never lost a hard drive ever before this
year, since my first hard drive bearing computer of a Heath Zenith
Z248 PC with an MFM 40Mb drive entered my world in 1989.
But dealing with 4 latop hard drives failing in my own home over the
past 2 months is pretty hilarious, 5 if you count my buddy's drive I
helped him recover. Wacky stuff.
Best Regards,