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Christian Parpart wrote: |
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> However, I once have (accidently!) thrown down one harddrive of mine from |
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> within 60cm distance down while moving to a new tower/rac; I were nearly |
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many moons ago, I had a 300 meg IDE drive that I bought for a dollar - |
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and this was when drives sold for about a buck a megabyte. A lady |
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brought in her computer with a broken harddrive. It would not spin up, |
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but after I accidently dropped it on the table, it started working. We |
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replaced her HD, and I asked the owner if I could buy the broken HD for |
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a dollar. |
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I stuck it in my BBS machine at the time, and it lasted 2 years for me. |
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It would work great so long as I did not power down the machine, then I |
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had to tap the harddrive, or bang it with a pen while it was trying to |
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power up. One day the power went out, and when it came back on, the HD |
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would not spin up despite my "tender care" - it had died. I knew that |
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day would come, so I had current backups. |
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They just don't make them like they used to :) |
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