evil computers

EEEEEEEVALLLLLL *hisss*

:3

Ugh, that blows, happened to my buddies 1TB siemens external and it was completely full.

I have that same hdd i think, should i be worried?

Well, I was advised to get one of those S.M.A.R.T. monitor utilities...

They continuously check the disk's diagnostic system for errors and 'might' be able to predict any major failures.

Since I assume you won't be carrying 1TB of data around very often, maybe that can be a good solution... many of those monitor applications are freeware and widely available online.

^^

Honestly, i had my last computer for 5 years, no how much stuff i had to move that i accumulated in 5 years, much of it pretty worthless? Only 40 gigs XD I don't save art and don't have that much music. I guess i'm just not a storage whore lol. I'll probably never fill up my 500 gig iomega

well, I 'kinda' am a storage whore... if I started describing the sheer size of my backups, people out there would call me crazy... ^^;;;

that sucks

...it'll suck even more, if I can't recover 500GB of my digital life...

true

Wooooah, no fun :P

Are you sure they're not going to find anything under their "analysis" you wouldn't otherwise want them to find? lol

Oh and btw don't buy Siemen's products, they're not exactly the best quality.

No worries, I'm doing the disk analisys myself with a special program.

...me? Pay hundreds of dollars to have some snot-nosed brat fresh from college scavenge through 'MY' personal data?

...HELL NO!

EEEp! and exsternal HD failure... those SUuuuuuuck

yea... no kidding. I got 'everything' on that disk, too...

That's a mega-bum. =/

I'm havin' compy problems right now, too.

Cute pictures, btw. :)

thanks ^^

as for computer problems, you need to deal with them as racionally and quickly as possible, or they'll suck the life out of you...

...trust me on that... =_=

i see what your problem is, your using a mac!!!!! 8D

...Funny, tho!

its the Mac that's actually allowing me to recover that disk... a WINDOWS SYSTEM DISK... because Windows locks up every time I plug the disk in, and won't let me do anything...

...how about THEM Apples? >:3

its clearly some sort of apple sceam to make you buy their tacky products 8D

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I'm sorry, sir. But that kind of Mac bashing comments should be checked in at the door.

Thank you, Have a nice day.

The look on your poor face scares me x_x Not even The Scream compares with it.

Actually, I 'did' have The Scream in mind when I drew it :3

...who says anthro artists don't draw inspiration from classical art? :3

Yours is more soul-harrowing x3

Oh nooooo X3 pooor tiger X3 (very great pic XD)

^^

oh, i found your problem: it's a mac!

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I'm sorry, sir. But that kind of Mac bashing comments should be checked in at the door.

Thank you, Have a nice day.

Your heartfelt scream reminds me of that depicted by Edvard Munch:
http://members.cox.net/claregerber2.....%20Scream2.jpg

OS X provides a wonderful Disk Utility built-in feature: RAID 1. I purchased three brand new factory sealed Hitachi 500 GB Ultrastar enterprise grade HDs on eBay for $51 to $65 each. Mean Time Between Failures is 1,200,000 hours. I purchased a firewire box to put them in. The third HD is a spare. Both my computer and I now feel invincible - sweet!!!

Actually, that's exactly what I kept in mind while drawing it. ^^

Three 500GB enterprise disks!? ...dude, I think I might idolize you from now on :3

Thanks! Just be sure to buy three identical HDs. Both HDs must be identical for RAID 1, and by the time the first one fails (probably never), you won't be able to purchase the same model and size any more.

Avoid 10,000 RPM HDs unless you are doing commercial video editing. Heat dissipation increases with the cube of the RPM.

Get a box with one or more fans of 80x80 mm size or larger. Heat is your HDs' enemy. Larger slower RPM fans make much less noise for a given airflow, and bearing wear goes with the cube of the RPM, all else being equal.

eSATA, Firewire, or USB2? eSATA hyperspeed is fine for Yahoo, but is a needlessly expensive overkill for home use. Although USB2 looks faster than Firewire, those delicious figures are peak data transfer rates, not sustained. Firewire 400 will beat USB2 for practical sustained massive data transfer, and Firewire 800 beats 400. Moreover, if you are like me, you have lots of stuff already plugged into your USB ports. You don't want your RAID array to have to wait every time you make a stroke with your stylus or a click on your keyboard. Firewire rules for RAID.

HD brand: Hitachi Ultrastars have a 1,200,000 MTBF. Western Digital Caviars have a 600,000 hour MTBF and are not any cheaper, at least not for new factory sealed ones on eBay. The WD MyBook does NOT have a Caviar drive and is nowhere near as reliable.

HD size: Never buy the biggest of any model line; they may be pushing heat dissipation, bearing load, and bit density limits. Get something no more than half the capacity of the largest member of the line. I got nice ultra conservative Hitichi 500 GB Ultrastars. I think that the FA raid arrays are now using Ultrastars, too.

My three new factory sealed 500 GB Ultrastars cost me about $180 including shipping. That is a small price to no longer fear entropy eating my digital life! Hurrah for immortality and invulnerability!! (A DVD burner for making weekly incremental off site backups is nice insurance against your house being carried away by a tornado, too.)

Well, I might just get something like that.
Nothing quite so 'large', since since I'm no 'business' user. But that might be an option worth considering.
Tho I might replace the FireWire external box for an 'internal' SATA array. I'd say I'm pretty much done with external disks and, with an 8GB memory card to transfer stuff from/to work, I'd say I really don't need an 'external' disk.

Now, all I need is to get a decent system to 're-arrange' as my new NAS unit... :P

...Oh... and as for Tornados, I think I'm pretty safe from those :P

OH NOES!