Steve... guess what...

I'm rebuilding.

Got AVG, zonealarm, spybot, media player, windows update, umpteen drivers...

What am I missing?
 
Backup device as well. I know nobody likes tape, but wouldn't that have saved you a ton of heartache? ;)
 
unclehobart said:
I'm rebuilding.

Got AVG, zonealarm, spybot, media player, windows update, umpteen drivers...

What am I missing?
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Grounding strap whenever you use the computer?
 
Inkara1 said:
What brand? And what brand was the one that died?
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Ive killed the best and brightest in mere months. This latest one was a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 ATA.

I've killed a Seagate SCSSI in 6 months.

I think this latest one is a Samsung. Steve wouldn't let me look at it or handle it... probably better that way.
 
your not shaking this thing to death are you like some ppl do to infants :dizzy:

Were these all brand new drives? If so have you tried sending them in under warranty?

Backup to tape is not a bad idea. I have several clients doing so. Just make sure to rotate tapes every couple of weeks otherwise you'll wear through them quickly.
 
unclehobart said:
Ive killed the best and brightest in mere months. This latest one was a Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9 ATA.

I've killed a Seagate SCSSI in 6 months.

I think this latest one is a Samsung. Steve wouldn't let me look at it or handle it... probably better that way.
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Were they still under warranty, at least? You know...free replacement?
 
All new. Some under warranty, some just outside. Free harddrive or not, goodbye half a day repairing it all.

What I should do is get 10 raided drives constantly writing backups to each other. I might make it 3 years that way.
 
unclehobart said:
All new. Some under warranty, some just outside. Free harddrive or not, goodbye half a day repairing it all.

What I should do is get 10 raided drives constantly writing backups to each other. I might make it 3 years that way.
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RAID 5. You can get by with three drives but you have better fault protection with five. You can't do it (yet) with anything but SCSI though.

Perhaps your ultimate solution is to move into the woods and live on nuts and berries. Sooner or later all this electronic stuff is going to get smart enough to figure out what's killing it, then you could be in real danger. :D
 
I suspect part of the issue is placement. He's got a hole in the side of the case (80 MM case fan hole without a fan in it) which sits literally 2 inches off the monitor. I'm starting to wonder about the effects of that.
 
Can you swap the two sides of the case so God's side (the holy one) faces the fireplace instead?
 
I meant, take the panel off the left side of the case and put it on the right side, and vice versa. His case, if I remember right, is the kind where you can take off the sides and still have the top on, instead of one of the older kind where the cover was one big tri-folded piece of metal.
 
Go to an auto parts place and get a roll of the metalized tape. Helluvalot easier.

Gato, I've been saying that for years.


HL, if you want to send him to raid land, I've still got that raid card lying about.


Oh, and Rob, as to what you're missing ....... 70g of porn.



Might I suggest splitting drives? Drop in a small harddrive. 6.4G or smaller, and load the OS onto it. Then add a larger drive for data and programs other than the essentials. That way, you only lose one or the other.
 
That's how we build customer machines. 2 mirrored or duplexed OS drives, and a Raid 5 array for the data. One customer for whom money was no object, but uptime critical went with full duplex on the Data array too. 2 full external drive chassis. I have to admit, I sported a woody the entire time I was building that. Nearly wept walking out of the server room.
 
Hmm. Cheap RAID card, another 90 bucks for a second 160 gigger, and mirror the bastards.

Of course, with my luck, his PS will then blow, sending a spike through the system and blowing both drives, the raid card, the mobo, yada, yada.
 
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