When your computer rings

[GPI]

Then i know two things about your computer:

First: You have a Maxtor HDD-Device
Second: You have a big problem!

My Maxtor HDD rings (really! It sound like a telephone! go http://www.techimo.com/forum/showthread ... 161&page=1 and download the mp3). And all the datas on it a lost... About 50-70 GB lost. My complete installation-Folder with all my programs are lost. The complete installed system with thousend customised settings lost. AND PUREBASIC-KEYFILE LOST.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

On good thing: My PB-Sources are on a diffrent HDD! (And now on two HDDs!)

[Moonshine]

Gee thats bad. Steer clear of the Maxtor drives in the future I think. I find Seagate drives to be very reliable.

[GPI]

Gee thats bad. Steer clear of the Maxtor drives in the future I think. I find Seagate drives to be very reliable.

My new HDD is a 120GB-Maxtor HDD...

btw: Found a very old windos98-installation (PB-Key:) ) and a old backup of my installation-folder... But all out of date...

[Dare2]

And all the datas on it a lost... About 50-70 GB lost. My complete installation-Folder with all my programs are lost. The complete installed system with thousend customised settings lost. AND PUREBASIC-KEYFILE LOST.

That has to hurt.

[Rings]

yes i know those sound of rings.....

[blueznl]

over time, i've had hdd crashes on... lemme think... during the last ten to fifteen years...

1x wd 200 mb (still pissed of at this one, you guessed it, no backup...)
1x seagate 300 mb
2x bigfoot 4 gb
1x maxtor 6 gb
1x fujitsu 10 gb
1x wd 20 gb (lost some data, but had parts of it properly backed up)

all sorts of brands it looks like, and that's what's in my current machines as well, all sorts of models and brands...

my laptop has a seagate hdd that's telling me it's going to die, but it did so for the last three years, so i stopped paying attention

i'm waiting for the next crash with... 4x 10 gb, 1x 20 gb, 2x 40 gb, 1x 60 gb, 1x 80 gb and 1x 120 gb something is going to fail some day...

[Dreglor]

all my western digtal drives (even from some 1980 computer) still work
and they have some killer new drives

[PolyVector]

A while back, I wrote about 3 near-finished games in C++/DX... One day, while I was coding.... *Click*...*Reboot*.... my hdd never spun again... I lost it all.... and guess what?
It was a frickin' Maxtor...
I wrote them to complain and after a year and a half I got a replacement... It didn't do much good tho...
It just goes to show you why they're so cheap

It also shows you that thousands of lines of C++ code can be replaced by a couple lines of PB

[nhokem]

It also shows you that thousands of lines of C++ code can be replaced by a couple lines of PB

i had just gotten through writing a snipit about my ol' c/c++ days (in DOS, not windows) in another thread (quite OT, btw) and had come to the conclusion that i have become a lazy programmer. i've grown to love PB because its so much easier and quicker to get things done (on second thought, it may not always be easier, but it is usually quicker)...

[Num3]

(on second thought, it may not always be easier, but it is usually quicker)...

True.. True...

[blueb]

I use removable hard drives (I've got 10 or 12, mostly Maxtors and no failures) focused on my home machine and my office server. I Ghost nightly to the second drive. Happiness ever since I started doing this.

see: viewtopic.php?t=7641&highlight=removable

blueb

[blueznl]

ah, must be the alias, i do very regular backups as well, and next week there will be an external hdd to top it off... hate loosing data...