I finally changed my hard drive after running almost seven years.

[Kaieye]

Now I stuck a fairly newer, slightly used former xbox WD eight gig hard drive and hope that it could last another five years. I am running all this on a FIC va-505+ and hope to keep it alive for at least another half decade. I do have a extra mb of the same variety so I hope I can have more pleasuriable years of service.

Go Maxtor!

 

[CrackRabbit]

:shocked:

 

[jtvang125]

How do you live with 3 gigs? I have 300 gigs and I still find myself running out of space now and then.

Anyways, good luck with the WD drive. I had a few go out on me already but then I run my PC 24/7.

 

[keeleysam]

What are the rest of your specs?

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
How do you live with 3 gigs? I have 300 gigs and I still find myself running out of space now and then.

Anyways, good luck with the WD drive. I had a few go out on me already but then I run my PC 24/7.

Wow, How do you live with only 300GB, I've got well over 2TB between my boxes and I run out of space. Gotta cut down on the pron I guess....

 

[fbrdphreak]

I'm assuming this is a backup spare never gonna use except when every other electronic device is dead machine?

 

[sswingle]

You're hoping a WD lasts another 5 years??







BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



k then.

 

[GeekDrew]

Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
You're hoping a WD lasts another 5 years??







BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA



k then.

... and you would recommend?

 

[squirrel dog]

tHAT DRIVE WAS MADE BACK WHEN mAXTOR HAD SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEIR PRODUCT.

 

[ElFenix]

i wonder if my old 3.2 wd works? i've still got it somewhere. of course, my digicam has more storage than that drive.

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
tHAT DRIVE WAS MADE BACK WHEN mAXTOR HAD SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEIR PRODUCT.

capslock for the nguyen!

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: jtvang125
How do you live with 3 gigs? I have 300 gigs and I still find myself running out of space now and then.

Not everyone's downloading pr0n and music from BT.

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
tHAT DRIVE WAS MADE BACK WHEN mAXTOR HAD SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEIR PRODUCT.

capslock for the nguyen!

LOL I had not seen that one before.

 

[TomKazansky]

seagate ftw.

those things last forever if properly taken care of.

in fact i didn't even care my 2gb harddrive and it still runs after 8 years.

 

[Amused]

I have a 7+ year old IBM 14.4 GB 7200 RPM HD that's still running. It's in a PC built from old parts that I gave to my GF's mother.

 

[jadinolf]

My 13.6 Gig Maxtor from '98 is still alive and well.

 

[state 08]

I have a 13 gig Maxtor from 7 years ago also! WOOT for MAXTOR!

 

[Kaieye]

The Maxtor was literally running 24/7 for its entire life. Maybe the hard drive was stopped for about two weeks entirely in its life but the sucker keeps running just like the Energizer bunny...

 

[Azurik]

Originally posted by: Sukhoi

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: squirrel dog
tHAT DRIVE WAS MADE BACK WHEN mAXTOR HAD SOME PRIDE ABOUT THEIR PRODUCT.

capslock for the nguyen!

LOL I had not seen that one before.

LOL, me either. It only makes sense if you try to pronounce it like an American speaker.

 

[Twista]

=( not even a good folder worth of porn space

 

[KRandor]

 

[steveevan]

Originally posted by: Kaieye
The Maxtor was literally running 24/7 for its entire life. Maybe the hard drive was stopped for about two weeks entirely in its life but the sucker keeps running just like the Energizer bunny...

so what are the rest of the specs for this system? is this your main system? Any reason you havent upgraded yet?

I mean 3.2 gb of space is one thing, but those drives are pretty slow too from what i remember!

I have some old hard drives still running, but they are in computers that only get used so often, not computers that are on 24/7. the oldest drive i have in a computer that gets used a lot is a 15 gb drive. dont even remember the brand.

 

[MrDudeMan]

i seem to have terrible luck with hard drives. they die on me in like 3 years.

 

[meltdown75]

:thumbsup:

still running a P-133 in the garage with a 4.3 gig Maxtor. :thumbsup:

gotta have Track N Field running on MAME for when guys get beat out at the poker table.

 

[KRandor]

I have an old 80mb 2.5" HDD - (not sure what make/model) in a (just as old) Amiga A1200 sitting here. Can't say I've used it much in a couple of years - (haven't fired it up since I moved in here a year-and-a-half ago). I just plugged it in to check that it still works - and yep . It's at leat 7 yeas old that I know to - and I bought it third hand...

As to PC hard-disks - an old 4.3GB that I bought at the same time as the Amiga (but new) is still working - though that never got much use so it's not surprising - (just sat around as a sparesince my brother nicked the other Amiga A1200 that I had, which that was connected to. And trust me - a 4.3GB HDD in a barely expanded A1200 is HUGE, lol).