F U Seagate - thank u rhizome supplier

[beesy]

I am so pissed. Built up a modest system about two months ago with a dual core processor. threw in a seagate 1tb/ 32mb cached drive. shut pc down and went to nursery to get some chamomile and cilantro (coriander) to grow. come home and pc will not boot. WTF? after some testing, hard drive if f'd up. Nice. The reason i went with seagate was becaue i had issues with last two western digital i bought. now i am just pissy.

good thing - got 10 hop rhizome in mail today - all with shoots and one king ding a ling sized one with about 8 2-4" long shoots. modest trade off i guess

 

[SkewedBrewing]

I know this is completely after the fact... but...

Engadget - Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives...

Sorry to hear about this, BTW. I had the harddrive in my laptop die last year after four years of college. I lost almost all of my music and pictures from backpacking through europe, not cool...

 

[Baja_Brewer]

I wish Blue Ray DVD writers would come down in price for this reason. I would gladly back up all of my files every two months to a few disks... I have an external but I guess its 50/50 which one dies first.

Bummer though. Good luck with the next one

 

[beesy]

i'm not so turned off at the price of a blu ray writer, just turned off at the price of media. wowsers!! I remember when i got my first burner in like 97-98 (think it was a whopping 2x or 4x-one of firstg ones out) and paid like $200 for it to run on my sweet ass 200mhz MMX machine!! Those were the good days. I also remember my commodore 64 and thinking when i got a cassette drive for it i was a bad mo' fo!!!

 

[SkewedBrewing]

Haha, I remember running Wolfenstin and Battlefield 1942 from the dos prompt pre windows 3.1...

And writing "games" in Q Basic...

 

[beesy]

i didn;t have any music on it (one album) as i just did a clean install about a month ago (xp to xp pro - yea i know cleaning after only 1-2 months of use). i think the only thing i lost were all my tax documents from yesterday (all of which can be obtained again) my last two brew recipes, beersmith, and office 2007. Just going to be a pain in the crack to wait for them to send me a new one and reinstall everything.

One of the w.d's i referenced i lost most of my pics to Vegas, Boston and a few from Yellowstone. That was a sad day!!!

 

[SkewedBrewing]

If it makes you feel any better, the circumstances surrounding my harddrive's death make it all the worse: I was backing up my HD with carbon copy cloner when it failed...

 

[Homercidal]

If it makes you feel any better, the circumstances surrounding my harddrive's death make it all the worse: I was backing up my HD with carbon copy cloner when it failed...

OUCH!

I got a recovery program that has managed to get back files from a drive that windows couldn't see. Last time I used it, I recovered data from a drive that I repartitioned and reinstalled Windows on. Yes, data from the OLD partition!

 

[SkewedBrewing]

That's pretty lucky/awesome Homercidal. The drive I lost had a mechanical failure so it needs to be rebuilt in a clean room.

I've still got the drive... one day for Chrismukkuh I will get myself that data back...

 

[humann_brewing]

Well I know you are not going to want to hear this, but Costco has the seagate 1.5TB external drive for $110 after their coupon of $30 off.

 

[beesy]

i only paid $99 for the 1tb, and i think that would provide most all the storage i would need. another 500g for a few more buck ain't bad though. i usually get all my hardware at microcenter 1)4 miles down road and 2) prices competitive, even against newegg. Microcenter has the 1.5tb for 129 right now, so fairly close in cost.

 

[Kronin]

should be on warranty... seagates have a great warranty. I have never had any need ti use the western digital warranty though... seagate yes.


came home from 3 days out of town yesterday and PC is off? (i leave it on 24x7).. try to boot... BOOTMGR not found... damn.
boot with vista CD, repair install (30 seconds) reboot.. all good.

weird.

 

[bad coffee]

Digital media does not exist until it's in more than one place. Back everything up, to two places.

Sorry about your drive. Seagate has a drive checker tool on their site. You should be able to d/l it and check the drive.

B

 

[beesy]

it is on warranty, hell only 3+ months old. I already sent it in today. i tried playing around with a few utilities to get data and nadda. not really worried about anything on it, just a pain in the ass.

 

[G-E-R-M-A-N]

Western Digital seems like a more reliable brand IMHO.

 

[enderwig]

One word "RAID"

RAID 1 (mirrored settings/disks) duplicates data across every disk in the array, providing full redundancy. Two (or more) disks each store exactly the same data, at the same time, and at all times. Data is not lost as long as one disk survives. Total capacity of the array equals the capacity of the smallest disk in the array. At any given instant, the contents of each disk in the array are identical to that of every other disk in the array.

10 years ago I lost about 200 GB of data to a drive crapping out, and decided right then that that will never happen again. It cost more to setup, but you have full redundancy.
Say you have 2 identical 1TB drives, the raid system sees only 1TB of space, but every piece of data is written to both drives, they are completely identical. If one fails, you just pull it and keep on trucking. At your earliest convenience go buy another drive to restore your raid setup. :rockin: