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August 9, 2009
Technology Meltdown
My laptop hard drive started crashing in MS so I've not posted any shots for a few days. I'm back in Colorado now, but things are not good. I'm experiencing a technology meltdown and I've got to find my way back to the airport at some point today.
The garage door wouldn't open because a breaker had been thrown - who knows why that is. Then, a drive on my mail server began to fail. You can hear it beside me now in its final death throes. Ball bearings grinding into the platters. So, I'm trying my best to move the data off of it onto my new 4 Terabyte Western Digital RAID Level 5 ShareSpace.
By some miracle, my laptop booted up for the first time in several days, so I'm ripping data off of it as fast as humanly possible. Trying to save what I can.
Timmy, of course, is screaming for attention. He's been neglected and he's shedding and sharpening his claws on my jeans. Ouch.
Update: The problem I was hearing from my server was the...wait for it...video card. If you guessed video card, please step forward. There's a fan on the video card that was making a racket intermittently. I blew the PC out with compressed air, however, and it's not done it since then (fingers crossed).
Also, my laptop seems to be working. So, I'm not clear what the deal was. Possibly the humidity in MS? I ordered a new hard drive for it just to be on the safe side.
Posted by Rob Kiser on August 9, 2009 at 10:49 PM
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It must be something going around.
I just had to replace the Hitachi hard drive (manufactured in August 2007) in a MacBook, due to physical hardware failure. Definitely a grinding sound.
My neighbor across the street just had his external hard drive crash. I don't know what brand it was.
Posted by: Robert R. on August 10, 2009 at 4:17 PM