WARNING!!! Hard Drive Crash.... Possible?

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Wow, and its worse, its predicting the crash, all day I been trying to find out whats wrong...

Turns out my Hard Drive is crashing and burning, HARD.

So, if I suddenly dissapear without warning, assume the worse, and yes, the worse would be that the Hard Drive DOES not crash, but gains a SUPER A.I. and kills me while I sleep. So I leave it up to you! AVENGE ME!!!

[Khendon Sevon]

hate it when that happens... the A.I. part, that is.

Happens a lot with the older 10gigs and newer 90-100gigs... attempting to kill me, that is.

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

Hey, don't make fun of me or my problems... I am dead serious, my computer is freaking out... It already maxed out my credit card buying stuff from makemorebombs.com, so... I worried now.

[Chance]

You sure your not being hacked?

The CC Max-out seems pretty liable for a hacker to do..

But a AI hard drive... Scary:|

[Dark Lord Dyzm]

No, I don't think it was a hacker, not when it warns you do update your reboot disk to save all infomation.

The Warning popped up in the computer startup, right after it checked system memory and keyboard, mouse, monitor connections. You know, it scans the harddrives for problems.
Ok, I have the money, I just going to replace harddrive with a new one, and buy a new CPU while i'm at it. AMD Athlon XP 1800+ nice, good, CPUm maybe a new motherboard also, Intel D845BG. I gotta find out well those 2 things run together first. How compatible. Should Cost be roughly 400 bucks, unless I install them myself, I should save about 50 bucks.

[Admiral Lebron]

I know how you feel. I spent about five months with a horrible hard drive. Good luck to ya

[Morgan Evanar]

Uhm, you can't use an AMD cpu on an intel chipset motherboard.

Don't buy an Athlon. You'll probably crack the core. Just get a retail P4 1.6a (MUST be the A) and the MSI i845 board.

[Khendon Sevon]

I'd say get an Asus motherboard (make sure it's AMD chipset like the k7 series) and an AMD processor... considering the AMD's are more powerful for you $$, it's probably a better choice than going with the Pentium (even though Pentium's consume less power than any Athlon). Make sure you have a 300wt powersource, or you might have some little issues, also, make sure it's ATX (your case) and whatnot... might want to throw a case fan in for $30.

I have a case fan, 300wt power source and run my computer almost 24/7, it has an old AMD Tbird 800mhz, never had a problem with the hardware yet.

50% chance you'll have to change RAM, as well.

[Morgan Evanar]

AMD may be cheaper, but the only way to break a P4 is to incenerate it, run it over, blow it up, or bend the pins.

I personally use an Athlon XP 1700+ running @1518 (vs 1466 stock) on a Gigabyte VTXE (VIA KT266a chipset).

I'm very pro AMD, but if its your first build, and you exibit the knowledge that an Athlon could run on an i845, AMD is not for you.

If I had the money, I would go P4 1.6A retail and overclock. Its a sure thing as long as you go with the retail setup.

[Khendon Sevon]

this is truth.

[Vinny Red]

Hey Morgan, what OS are you running out of curiosity. I've got the same chip....

[Morgan Evanar]

XP atm, was running 2k last week.

[Miryan no Trunks]

Yep, never a good sign when your computer pops up a message along the lines of

"You'd best get some cash ready, cause I'm F***ed"

[Marcus Telcontar]

New server I'm getting next week is going to be a twin PIII 1.1 Gz, running 1 gig memory. That aint nothing special, it's being got purely on price.

Because I'm spending big on the IDE RAID array. 400Gb of usable RAID 5. We're finding a few more dollars and extending to a second array of a terabyte in a few months.

Why?

Cause my boss is a geek. I told him about building a terabtye RAID array for under 5000 and he told me to prove it. In raw disk, its approx 1.3 Tb. After the RAID is applied, 1 full terabyte. What a wank. But what bragging rights ^_^. We're using a bank of Apaptec 2400a IDE controllers which will apply RAID 1.0 (Mirrored / stripe) if we want. It allows hot swap and we are simply allowing the OS to do the RAID 5. It's slower, but after we did our sums, we will have power to spare. We're using a HP LH3 shell as a disk cabinet - it's going to look hacked cause of the disk numbers, but the LH 3 shell gives us 15 drives. It will allow multiple power supplies.

That's what I call a hardcore disk array. We can use about 100 Gb straight away and with some of the customer databases we work on, there's a thought 1 Tb may be short. 1Tb and we think we may be short????

Backups are going to be a biiiiiiiiiig issue. The autoloaders of rthat type of capacity are fiercely expensive.

For a full terabyte at home, the 2400a's and 6 120 Gb's will do it easily. Twin powersupplies of course. Some towers take 8 drives without mods.

[Morgan Evanar]

You using Western Digital or Maxtor?

[Marcus Telcontar]

Western Digital.

[Morgan Evanar]

Interestingly enough, I'm using both right now. Gonna take the 60 gig 5400 RPM western dig out and stick it in the old K62 500. Media server =D

[Marcus Telcontar]

The hardware supplier gave me a really, really funny look with the number of drives I ordered. Ithink he really thought I was loony when he was told what I wanted them for.

And his quote was...

"No one can download that much porn"

[Khendon Sevon]

LOL.

Of course they can. (eep!) I ment no they can't.

Have fun building that crazy flying machine.

[Marcus Telcontar]

Oh I will. I hope to put some pics up while cinstructing.