New New Hard Drive Setup
In light of my hard drive failure and the corresponding 250GB of data loss, I decided that enough is enough, and I've changed my setup around drastically. First of all, the heat can't be doing good things for the lifespan of these drives, so I bought a second external interface, but this one completely surrounds the drive and has a small fan on one end and an opening diagonally opposed to it. Inside that enclosure is a Seagate 500GB 7200RPM with a 32MB cache, and in my normal, slot-it-like-a-tape interface is (yet another) Western Digital 500GB 7200RPM with a 16MB cache.
Now, any sane person, after three WD drive failures, would stop buying the things. But I've figured out my stupidity. Oh yes, that was a fun conversation.
Me: I bought this 400GB drive here about two months ago, and now it's making this kind of clicking noise.
Employee: Uh... How long ago?
Me: About two months.
Employee: ... Do you have the receipt?
Me: You're holding it.
Employee: So I am.
Me: [Wait for 15 minutes]
Employee: It's a little... difficult.
Me: So you can't do it? That seems odd, because I'm looking at these drives and they all have a one-year warranty. Is it just my drive that's just like this one that doesn't? Just the one drive that I bought?
Employee: Yes.
Me: Doesn't that seem a little strange?
Employee: ...
Me: ...
Employee: I'm very... sorry?
Me: Well, thanks for your help.
As it would turn out, the drives that keep crapping out on me were used. Yeah, used. You know what you shouldn't do? Buy used electronics that have moving parts. Yeah. Apparently, you tell them apart by the fact that the used ones have pink anti-static baggies that they come in, while the new ones come in white anti-static baggies. How could I not have known? It's so clear and intuitive. Was that enough sarcasm to make the hate clear?
The best part is that the new ones don't cost a yen more. They're actually cheaper, in some cases.
Still, it's my fault for not asking or something.
If you need me, I'm going to be beating myself about the spleen with this kanji dictionary...
Now, any sane person, after three WD drive failures, would stop buying the things. But I've figured out my stupidity. Oh yes, that was a fun conversation.
Me: I bought this 400GB drive here about two months ago, and now it's making this kind of clicking noise.
Employee: Uh... How long ago?
Me: About two months.
Employee: ... Do you have the receipt?
Me: You're holding it.
Employee: So I am.
Me: [Wait for 15 minutes]
Employee: It's a little... difficult.
Me: So you can't do it? That seems odd, because I'm looking at these drives and they all have a one-year warranty. Is it just my drive that's just like this one that doesn't? Just the one drive that I bought?
Employee: Yes.
Me: Doesn't that seem a little strange?
Employee: ...
Me: ...
Employee: I'm very... sorry?
Me: Well, thanks for your help.
As it would turn out, the drives that keep crapping out on me were used. Yeah, used. You know what you shouldn't do? Buy used electronics that have moving parts. Yeah. Apparently, you tell them apart by the fact that the used ones have pink anti-static baggies that they come in, while the new ones come in white anti-static baggies. How could I not have known? It's so clear and intuitive. Was that enough sarcasm to make the hate clear?
The best part is that the new ones don't cost a yen more. They're actually cheaper, in some cases.
Still, it's my fault for not asking or something.
If you need me, I'm going to be beating myself about the spleen with this kanji dictionary...
Labels: computers, data storage, dictionaries, not メロンパン, spleen
posted by William at
9/04/2008 06:29:00 PM
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