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Tue, 15 April 2003 16:29
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My frigging HDD is fried.. means i gotta backup all my stuff before i lose it.. that means i need CDs, and i need to buy a new HDD>. so i probably wont be on here for a while.
god damn computer.
i seriously wish a computer could not break ever.. it would make my life a lot less expensive.
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I supported Toymods
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Sydney
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 02:47
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| katsuchiyo wrote on Wed, 16 April 2003 02:29 |
i seriously wish a computer could not break ever.. it would make my life a lot less expensive.
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Hahahaha.. The same could be said about cars! 
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I supported Toymods
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 02:59
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Then I'd be out of a job  
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Canberra
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January 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 05:25
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I second the out of a job quote
p.s. buy a western digital 120GB Lifetime warranty 
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 05:29
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| jezz wrote on Wed, 16 April 2003 15:25 |
I second the out of a job quote
p.s. buy a western digital 120GB Lifetime warranty
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Thats alot of storage space for porn.
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Location:
Canberra, ACT
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 05:32
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Hah, I was gonna say that isn't very much space for porn, but I guess if I had to choose my favorites I could fit it all
-Andrew
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Canberra
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January 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 05:51
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found a better one after double checking my supplier
250 gig MAXTOR 5400 ATA 133
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Sydney
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 06:33
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| jezz wrote on Wed, 16 April 2003 15:51 |
250 gig MAXTOR 5400 ATA 133
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Can you get that in 7200?
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Location:
Brisbane, QLD
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February 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 07:49
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could you imagine not defragging that 250gb drive for a couple of years then deciding it was a good idea to get around to it 
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Canberra
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January 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Wed, 16 April 2003 23:26
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no we can onlt get 5400s
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Location:
Perth - Cannington
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December 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Thu, 17 April 2003 03:34
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Defrag on an ATA133 200gb is bad.. LOL
however..the Maxtor may be a larger capacity.. but the WD is far superior..
i mean.. a 120gb WD with 8mb cache, thats not something to be laughed at. read speed is awesome..
BTW: i had to fix my room.. so ive only just put the WD in.. bought an 80.. 200$
now i gotta go and download all my stuff again.. and Street legal.. i almost finished donwloading it!!!!
argh!!
oh well.. given a week i should have my linux/windows system running again.. mebbe i wont reload linux.. i dont use it much really..
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Location:
Wollongong
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Thu, 17 April 2003 14:44
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I dunno how good Western Digital drives are. A friend bought two of them a month ago (80Gb and 120Gb) and now both are completely dead. They won't even power up anymore. They were running in the machine for approx 3 weeks and upon a reboot, never came alive again 
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Location:
Rowville, Victoria
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April 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Thu, 17 April 2003 14:54
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erm, after 3 weeks?
shouldn't they still be under warranty then?
Quantum make good hdd's. Touch Seagate, but dont' touch WD. Apparently out of Quantum, Seagate and WD, they're the worst...or was it WD and Seagate are the same, well it was along those lines
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Sydney, Australia
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Thu, 17 April 2003 22:52
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It's funny how different people have different experiences with HDD's... some say don't touch this or that... to be honest I've good and bad experiences with most brands... oh except IBM drives.. I won't touch them with a 10 foot pole...(I don't think they're in the HD business anymore anyway).
I've had good experiences with both WD and Seagate, havnt used a Maxtor drive in a while so can't comment on those.
The thing is, whatever brand, expect your drive to fail, and backup often.. say to yourself, as you stare into yr monitor, if my HDD was to fail right now, what would I lose? If there's stuff there that you reaaaally can't afford to then back it up! Ask Julz!
sam.
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I supported Toymods
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Central Coast
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Fri, 18 April 2003 01:11
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From my experiences, of late my choise is Seagate (Baracuda series), resonable price and good performance. And I'm not only saying that cause I have 3 of them in my system 
WD, I persoanlly wouldn't touch, and Fujitsu's, ugh! DONT GET ME STARTED ON THESE PIECES OF %^&*!!! They used to be great drives, then the MPG series came out, and they all have gone down hill.. It has cost us so much money in labour replacing these things. But thats another story
Haven't had much to do with IBM's though, but we've had a few systems come through with 5400 Maxtors and they seemed ok...
My favourite drive I worked on last week was a 120Gb Seagte Baracuda, running on SATA! Nice, very nice!
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I supported Toymods
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Sutho/Hills NSW
Registered:
September 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Fri, 18 April 2003 03:29
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All IDE Seagates suck, you pay for its performance. Had 3 die within 3 months. The SCSI are good though.
I use WD and Maxtor, havent had a problem.
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Brisbane QLD
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March 2003
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Re: friggin great
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Fri, 18 April 2003 08:44
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only the thick maxtors are good, the skinny ones are swhit
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Melbourne
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May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Fri, 18 April 2003 12:26
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Well in about 1.5 years of selling barracuda's I can tell you that I saw only 2 come back and one of those was where the PSU crapped out and decided to take everything else with it 
Spose it could just be that I only worked 3 days a week when I worked in a pc store...
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I supported Toymods
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Sutho/Hills NSW
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September 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Fri, 18 April 2003 23:52
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Well my seagates seem to stop after a bit like lock up, at times i had to hang it down inside the case and kick it when it stoped, it seemed to start going again after that
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Location:
Puckapunyal
Registered:
April 2003
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Sat, 19 April 2003 12:11
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Hehe, I feel for you man. I'm running 2 x 80GB IBM Deskstar 120GXP's in RAID 0 and i'm just waiting for the big crash :0)
It will be fun for EVERYBODY!!!!
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I supported Toymods
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Perth
Registered:
May 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Sun, 20 April 2003 00:04
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Just bought a 120GB Seagate Barracuda V for gf's uncle's Home Theatre PC. Its awesome, easily gotta be one of the quietest drives I've used....EVER. 
Formatting the f'ing thing takes ages though
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Location:
Perth - Cannington
Registered:
December 2002
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Re: friggin great
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Sun, 20 April 2003 08:22
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LOL.. well.. the last drive i had was Quantum Fireball. thats the dead one.. which quite literally is a fireball now. he new one is a WD.. because neither me or my dad have ever had any problems with them.. Seagates.. weve had IDE and SCSI ones and both usually end up corrupting because they scratch the disk.. then there are quantums.. which up intill now were fine.. ill see how this WD goes.. its under warrenty.. so i can go yell at them for wasting my time and money and making me lose all my shit if anything happens
Katsu
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