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Apparently, though unproven, at 03:13 on Friday 15 October 2010, Daniel da |
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Veiga did opine thusly: |
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> Funny story. I had one drive that failed once (clicking) and I read |
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> somewhere to "cool" it. So I put the damn thing on the refrigerator, |
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> took it out after a while (it was so cold!), plugged in, and what the |
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> heck, it started working again and I was able to backup all of the |
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> data. After that it worked for a long time before failing again, lol. |
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> Now I always "cool" a clicking drive before replacing it. True story. |
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Another completely off-topic funny story: |
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I used to fix TVs a long time ago. Putting the TV in a freezer to find heat- |
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sensitive faults was reasonably common. Customers would think I was nuts |
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hauling a set out the freezer and sticking it on the bench.... |
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Then they started making those gigantic sets that don't fit into freezers; |
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cold rooms maybe but not freezers. Yet another diagnostic technique that went |
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the way of the dinosaur... |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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