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Re: [OM] The saga of hard-drives & data on older PC

Subject: Re: [OM] The saga of hard-drives & data on older PC
From: John Hermanson <omtech1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:35:18 -0500
Excellent, you now have room to breath. : - )
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Brian Swale wrote:
> You've all been sick to death with hearing about my hard-drive space 
> problems etc.
> 
> As far as I can tell they have now been solved for the foreseeable future. :-)
> 
> I had a 40 GB seagate HDD in my Acer computer which, as far as I could 
> tell, was unable to recognise HDD space exceeding 137GB.
> 
> So, on the strength of advice from Chuck, I obtained a card from Newegg 
> which got around that problem and would allow me to add external drives of 
> 1 TB etc.
> 
> I bought a 2nd hand 80 GB drive which I was going to fit inside the case.
> 
> In the end, I was so confused by all the instructions I could find on the 
> internet, and which came with the card, that I decided to take it to the 
> computer technician I have been using for at least 15 years.
> 
> The first thing he said, once the introductories were over, was that the 
> motherboard did not have the 137gb limit, and to prove that assertion, he 
> disconnected my hdd and plugged in a 500BG Hitachi drive he used in his 
> work for data transfer - and guess what?  The computer "saw" all 500 GB.
> 
> Hmmm.
> 
> I told him I was beginning to have reservations about the reliability of the 
> 40 
> GB Seagate drive that has been on this machine since time began. He took 
> one look at it, and listened to it, and agreed with me.  Apparently this 
> batch 
> of Seagate drives came from a set that Seagate bought from Maxtor; a set 
> that was So BAD that it sent Maxtor to the wall, and re-sold them. Including 
> on my machine.
> 
> While my machine does have two drive bays, they are too close together 
> and HDDs in those adjoining bays would get too hot, and die early, as a 
> result of the over-heating.
> 
> So he sold me ONE new 320 GB drive, and using Ghost, transferred the 
> 40GB data to the 320 GB drive.  
> He then used an expensive de-fragmentation program to totally defragment 
> the data-set on the new drive so that no fragmentation exists.  Not a half-
> baked defrag like what Windows does.
> 
> He installed the NewEgg ( Rosewill Taiwan RC-221  eSATA-150 Raid card) 
> with two external ports - PCI adapter.  I didn't need all the stuff that 
> Rosewill 
> included on their CDROM since Windows XP update 3 (which my machine 
> fortuitously has) recognised it already.
> 
> Next was the matter of the A-Data flash drives which contained 15 GB of my 
> photos, all neatly in subdirectories.  I had two copies of these and one had 
> already become slightly corrupted. He has managed to copy all of the good 
> flash drive to my new HDD.  Had things been difficult, he had recourse to  
> $5,000 data recovery program he has bought.
> 
> So now this machine can flea or fly or whatever. :-)
> 
> The new drive cost me $NZ 134, and he charged only $80 (one hour) 
> labour. I think he undercharged me.
> 
> The only downside so far is that the new HDD sounds a bit like a distant 
> helicopter. I guess I'll get used to that.
> 
> And I can still add a 1TB external drive.
> 
> He was very concerned about the idea of using hdd's as long-term storage.
> 
> He didn't think that was a good idea at all.  
> 
> He keeps his extensive archive of driver programs etc in a set of CDROMs 
> housed in two electric "carousels" rather like Kodak slide projector 
> carousels; all totally enclosed, and with their own indexing and searching 
> ability.  
> I told him about you guys with back-up drives in concrete bunkers separate 
> from the house and fired up only once a month ...
> 
> Brian Swale.
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