Hard drive and hard drinking
by Chris on Aug.25, 2004, under General Thoughts
Woke up this morning having recovered nearly 100% from the partying last night. Sure, it was out of character for me, but every once in a while it pays to be a bit less moderate. Missed some people that should have been there, but all told a good time was had.
The time was not so good this morning, however. I woke up to a clicking noise coming from my new hard drive (the one that Char bought me for my music) and essentially a dead drive with little to no hope of recovery.
Except…
I take the damnable piece of cack back to BCom and they check it out and it works fine there. So I bring it home, and lo and behold, it works like a damned charm!
I’m not too trusting of it at this point, though, which tells me that maybe — dud or no — I need to investigate a newer drive. I’m starting to think that it’s gonna end up being a problem elsewhere in the PC — it’s plausible that the hard drive controller itself is b0rked. Not a happy thought, that.
August 25th, 2004 on 3:08 pm
So you went with an internal drive? I had suggested an external firewire drive to her when she was thinking of buying it herself.
August 25th, 2004 on 3:19 pm
Yes, that’s a good idea, but capacity-wise they’re about 4x as expensive.
As a result, they’re not a great investment from a “get more disk space” perspective :/
August 26th, 2004 on 3:12 pm
But they are fast… and you can move it from machine to machine with much ease. I think that’s almost worth the extra cost.
August 26th, 2004 on 3:58 pm
Nah… I have a network to move the data from computer to computer, and/or an iPod for the distant stuff.
All I could have gotten as a firewire drive is a longing look at one, for the same price as this 200Gb drive