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/dev/wd1 is Dead

November 14th, 2003 · 6 Comments

It died 0920 hours today. RIP.

Marilyn however is still working fine. I am very pleased w/ this experiment.

Tags: Tools for Work

6 responses so far ↓

  • 1 ah Leung // Nov 15, 2003 at 2:24 am

    My damaged HD was replaced by a new one without notify me by my friendly shop. No way chance to recover the data.
    This is a great lesson for me as all the digital photos, 3 years collection, were gone and I deeply feel regret to my lady and son though they don’t say a word.

  • 2 James Mok // Nov 15, 2003 at 10:57 am

    Did you not insist on only repair and no replacement?

    3 years without a single backup…....

    I have started duplicating my earlier backup CD-ROM a few months ago.

  • 3 James Mok // Nov 15, 2003 at 11:00 am

    I just realized how silly I am to have sponsored a HD for RAIDing Mother, yet I haven’t done so for my own computer…

    Time to buy another HD and a RAID card.

  • 4 ah Leung // Nov 16, 2003 at 12:22 am

    Those pictures were stored in my old 15G system HD, and I bought this 80G coz the 15G come to full. I never think that 80G is so vulnerable before my back-up plan start.

    I would not using RAID for backup. Instead I would buy an exterenal HD and run a weekly backup using 1394.

  • 5 tin_the_fatty // Nov 16, 2003 at 8:36 pm

    If you bring a car in for repair, the car repair shop should return any old parts they replaced. I don’t see why your friendly shop wouldn’t return your old dead drive.

    I realized a long time ago that most shop technicians are full of shit and I don’t want them to touch my systems. I am also convinced that those DIY-style boxes Golden Arcade and MKCC are shifting are no good for non-specialists. When friends and family ask for my advice on a new computer system, depending on their needs, I either point them to an Apple Macintosh, or any of the big name PC makers, e.g. IBM, Dell, Acer, etc. I ain’t stupid enough to bear the burden of forever babysitting their MKCC box.

    Ah Leung is right. RAID is for redundancy, not backup. Even with a RAID on the workstation, you still want a good backup plan, for recovering overwritten important files, or disaster recovering after a virus strike.

  • 6 James Mok // Nov 17, 2003 at 8:37 pm

    Under warranty, broken parts are not returned to the car owner. It is only when it is out of warranty and the car owner had to pay for the new parts then the broken parts would be returned to the car owner.

    In this case, I supposed Ah Leung got a new drive under warranty?