Just Lost a HD

[Carrot44]

Not its not an IBM its a Seagate Barracuda IV 40 Gigger Brand new

The bearing went in it............. Squealed like a stuck pig. Anybody ever expierence this?

Ken

 

[dbwillis]

Mine is still running strong (Seagate 40gb/7200)

 

[jcmkk]

Sounds like you just got a bad egg.

 

[CStroman]

It was brand new? Hopefully you hadn't put anything important on it.

 

[Sniper82]

Why hasnt some company came out with a none mechanical HD yet? It doesnt sound impossible. I do know if one ever comes you are looking at some major $$$ when it first comes. Also whats with this floppy crap? Why hasnt someone came out with a smart media drive or something to store important docs and stuff on 64mb+ smart media? Then they can just let the floppy disks and drives die.

I promise one of these days it will come or something like it will come but it won't be by me.

 

[Odoacer]

Same here... I like Smartmedia's, and they're much faster than floppies. Give it a few years, hopefully the HD will be on its way out

 

[Carrot44]

<< Why hasnt some company came out with a none mechanical HD yet? It doesnt sound impossible. I do know if one ever comes you are looking at some major $$$ when it first comes. Also whats with this floppy crap? Why hasnt someone came out with a smart media drive or something to store important docs and stuff on 64mb+ smart media? Then they can just let the floppy disks and drives die. >>





You mean like a little crystal thing that glows you just plug in? No moving parts at all I wish.

Seagate says" This is not a common problem and I suspect it was just a case of
premature hardware failure. This happens sometimes but not often.

And yes I had just loaded Win2K with all the updates and patches over a 56k modem
However I was able to recover all my stuff

Ken

 

[Elledan]

<< Why hasnt some company came out with a none mechanical HD yet? It doesnt sound impossible. I do know if one ever comes you are looking at some major $$$ when it first comes. Also whats with this floppy crap? Why hasnt someone came out with a smart media drive or something to store important docs and stuff on 64mb+ smart media? Then they can just let the floppy disks and drives die.

I promise one of these days it will come or something like it will come but it won't be by me. >>


SM? You mean Flash? Unfortunately, Flash is damaged every time data is written to it or erased, limiting the number of times it can be used.

An MRAM drive would be nice, though...