Scuba_Dave
02/29/2004, 07:16 PM
Complacency...
So, over a year ago I had a hard drive failure. Total, everything gone,and I knew it was going to happen. I had the "click of death" as a warning that the HD was going. But I just kept rebooting & it would restart.
Then it didn't, lost some stuff, most I had on other computers, disc, CD etc. But it still took months to rebuild the PC w/new hd the way I wanted.
New motherboard, RAID capable, bought dual 100g hard drives to set it up. Raid is basically 2 or more hard drives, if one fails you still have your data, and your computer still runs.
Excellent, right?? One problem, I never installed them.
Guess what just happened??
You got it, came back from the meeting, click of death, and no restart. D-E-A-D spells dead. Just moved & haven't setup my backup or my CD-RW. All my blueprints for the building permits, digital pictures, other pics I scanned in, web pages, documents, all sorts of crap, 20g or better of data...GONE.
So I got up today & went on our FYAOD (Freeze yer @ss off dive), water temp about 36, figured that would numb the brain
Just got home a while ago, started to take the PC covers off, whacked the heck out of it, said a prayer, and pressed the button.
And it came up...I'm copying data off to laptop, then I'm going to install that RAID array with the 2 drives
As Marco said, take a good look around, at everything. What needs to be fixed? What accident can you prevent? Frayed electric cord that may start a fire? Wiring (tank or not) that isn't safe? Digital pictures burned to a CDROM? Computer files backed up? Electric outlets child protected? Hazardous materials out of harm's way?
A little checking, some preventative work, can save you in the long run
So, over a year ago I had a hard drive failure. Total, everything gone,and I knew it was going to happen. I had the "click of death" as a warning that the HD was going. But I just kept rebooting & it would restart.
Then it didn't, lost some stuff, most I had on other computers, disc, CD etc. But it still took months to rebuild the PC w/new hd the way I wanted.
New motherboard, RAID capable, bought dual 100g hard drives to set it up. Raid is basically 2 or more hard drives, if one fails you still have your data, and your computer still runs.
Excellent, right?? One problem, I never installed them.
Guess what just happened??
You got it, came back from the meeting, click of death, and no restart. D-E-A-D spells dead. Just moved & haven't setup my backup or my CD-RW. All my blueprints for the building permits, digital pictures, other pics I scanned in, web pages, documents, all sorts of crap, 20g or better of data...GONE.
So I got up today & went on our FYAOD (Freeze yer @ss off dive), water temp about 36, figured that would numb the brain
Just got home a while ago, started to take the PC covers off, whacked the heck out of it, said a prayer, and pressed the button.
And it came up...I'm copying data off to laptop, then I'm going to install that RAID array with the 2 drives
As Marco said, take a good look around, at everything. What needs to be fixed? What accident can you prevent? Frayed electric cord that may start a fire? Wiring (tank or not) that isn't safe? Digital pictures burned to a CDROM? Computer files backed up? Electric outlets child protected? Hazardous materials out of harm's way?
A little checking, some preventative work, can save you in the long run