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Re: [LUG] Bah! Disks! Bah!
Have we come up with a list of drives that people recommend?
I have a 250GB MAXTOR STM325031 SATAII that has been pretty much fine after, ooh, ages. I think I bought it in Jul 07. So that's 30 months.
On Jan 28, 2010 4:06pm, Paul Sutton <zleap@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> > converting videos of the kids and uploading them to Facebook. It was
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> > just the fan which had failed but the power supply did start to make a
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> > bit of a smell, must have been a combination of dust and whatnot. To
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> > get around it I ended up cable tying an 8cm fan to the grills of the fan
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> > and powering it off the power supply. Not elegant I know and very noisy
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> > but it worked, infact it's still working now, although I will be
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> > replacing the PSU in the next week or two with a new PSU, possibly an
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> > 80+ certified model too.
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> > Rob
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> Not as spectacular as sunday then, if your gonna go, at least go out
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