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An All-American Birthday Story
« on: August 2, 2003 01:53 am CDT »
(Well, not quite...)

I've since fixed my Barracuda so nothing's really wrong on a major scale anymore, but I thought this would make an interesting read.  This was in response to a thread about 60GXP's failing on another thread.  I meant to give my account, but ended up writing a short little story.  Enjoy!

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I had one of my two 40GB 60GXP's die on me over a year ago. Another one quit last Christmas but is still working after being frozen. It's sitting outside my machine just acting as an occasional Linnux drive when I get bored. That marks over two years of its existance.

As for the replacement 60GXP on the first one--I eBay'd that sucker as soon as I got it and went on. I was using a 20GB Quantum Fireball lct10 for a boot drive prior to that 40GXP... it died probably 3-6 months before it did, threatening to take all of my data from the past couple years with it. That's bad when you're a programmer and a student.

I then decided to try a 40GB Seagate Barracuda IV for a boot drive, but that went paws up yesterday. Total life: an impressive 8 months. It was kind enough to die on the day before my birthday (today). "Happy birthday, Geoff--your computer's dead."

Talk about a bum deal. To top it off, my 5xWD1200JB array on a 3ware Escalade 7500-8 controller gets an impressive 24MB/s write and 50MB/s read. Yet another birthday gift gone horribly wrong. I was going to flash my hard drives but lo and behold my floppy drive doesn't work in Windows. Okay, I think to myself, and write the boot disk with my laptop. Of course, now my floppy drive won't recognize there's a disk in there during boot-up (some times) and the times it will, it says "Unexpected I/O Error" with the boot disk or "Non-system disk" with any other.

Of course, when I wrote a 2nd boot disk, it just doesn't acknowledge that it's there and tries to continue booting either going to the nVidia DHCP dummy terminal or half-loading Windows.

Happy birthday to me.
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« Reply #1 on: August 2, 2003 03:26 am CDT »
LOL. your b-days close to mine. mine was the 25th of july.
good luck on gettin things working.
im assuming that your barricuda is the car? if it is, your doin better than me. i was hopin to get my chopper legal this summer. looks like im gonna have to try for NEXT summer to get it legal so i can ride it.
 :(  :cry:
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« Reply #2 on: August 2, 2003 03:30 am CDT »
Quote from: "EVIL_INC"
im assuming that your barricuda is the car? if it is, your doin better than me.

Quote from: "EVIL_INC"
LOL.


Oh and btw happy birthday to you.  I know ignoring Celtic isn't much of a birthday gift, but we will try!
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Gotta love SBC with their 6Mbps tier for 45$
(Yes, on their site it only shows 3Mbps, but it is actually 6Mbps, I would know :)).

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« Reply #3 on: August 2, 2003 03:45 am CDT »
Particle, at the rate at which you are going with your drives, might I recommend solid state memory?

I also thought he was talkin bout the Barracuda, like from Nash Bridges  :lol:
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« Reply #4 on: August 2, 2003 05:14 am CDT »
Anyone that thinks that is pretty unintelligent and likes to only skip through paragraphs and not fully read them.

Several times does Particle mention things like Barracuda IV, Barracuda drive, 40GB Seagate Barracuda IV for a boot drive.
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Gotta love SBC with their 6Mbps tier for 45$
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« Reply #5 on: August 2, 2003 05:32 am CDT »
No it was just the first thing I thought of before I saw the word "gb".

Hey, um, does anybody know the capacity they have reached on solid-state HDD memory yet?  I remember the microdrive a couple years ago at like 2gb.
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« Reply #6 on: August 2, 2003 06:12 am CDT »
I've considered it, but decent storage is way out of my price range.
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« Reply #7 on: August 2, 2003 06:13 am CDT »
Happy Birthday Part!!!  :D
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« Reply #8 on: August 2, 2003 06:13 am CDT »
Thank you, Pecker.
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« Reply #9 on: August 2, 2003 07:49 am CDT »
Arg I want to find that skin for your b-day present!  Alas, my brain hurts and I think I wore the winamp site out!
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« Reply #10 on: August 2, 2003 07:52 am CDT »
Ive been checking through the abstract and anime areas, nothing yet.
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« Reply #11 on: August 2, 2003 10:13 pm CDT »
happy bday old man  :P
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« Reply #12 on: August 2, 2003 10:30 pm CDT »
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« Reply #13 on: August 2, 2003 11:35 pm CDT »
lol

You caught be off-gaurd, that time.  It shant happen again!
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« Reply #14 on: August 3, 2003 01:10 am CDT »
What is that suposed to mean?? I'm scared now....
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