Blog: The Life Of A Supreme Ruler

Not again!

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— orudge @ 11/09/2006 11:31 pm

A month ago (well, technically, two months ago – the day before I went to Brazil for a month), my Maxtor hard disk failed. I replaced it when I got back to Brazil with a nice shiney new one. Lovely, all is fine and happy… until today, when it goes and fails too. Great. The last month’s e-mails, logs, and a whole pile of other things (such as my nicely planned out timetable for next summer, quite a few hours work there!) gone. Probably permanently. Tomorrow, I shall try sticking it in the freezer and doing that old trick, and see if it lets me get any life out of it. If it does, I shall try rescuing some important stuff. If not, bleh. The hard disk is obviously still under warranty, since it’s only been in operation for a month, but it’s very annoying. I’m very tempted to get RAID-1 sorted for my computer when I put things back together, in addition to sorting out the cooling in my case for hard disks if possible. *sigh*