http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=44 Powered by work over time. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 17:54:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=44&cpage=1#comment-6 Dad Wed, 21 Feb 2007 23:57:43 +0000 http://www.extinguishedscholar.com/wpglob/?p=44#comment-6 My first dead disk experience was in the 80's when 300MB ESDI needed a separate enclosure, a little smaller and a lot heavier than an electric stove. Then in the 90's when reliability was supposed to be so great, I remember many dead Rodime SCSI units, which we called "rodents." I never had a "deathstar" IDE drive, but lost a few others. The technology is improving, but the lesson is the same for disks, as for life. Failures happen. Are you ready? My first dead disk experience was in the 80’s when 300MB ESDI needed a separate enclosure, a little smaller and a lot heavier than an electric stove. Then in the 90’s when reliability was supposed to be so great, I remember many dead Rodime SCSI units, which we called “rodents.” I never had a “deathstar” IDE drive, but lost a few others. The technology is improving, but the lesson is the same for disks, as for life. Failures happen. Are you ready?

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