Comments on: Another one bites the dust http://jefflundberg.com/blog/2006/12/20/another-one-bites-the-dust/ no fuss, just the blog Sat, 11 Oct 2008 11:17:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Nick http://jefflundberg.com/blog/2006/12/20/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-4039 Nick Sun, 31 Dec 2006 18:33:13 +0000 http://jefflundberg.com/blog/2006/12/20/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-4039 Check your apartment's power, if the voltage drops frequently that will kill HDD's very quickly. If you can't fix the problem at its source then you'll probably need to use UPS's for essential equipment. Even if you've got the lowest quality HDDs I find it very unlikely that you'd lose that many disks in a year without outside influences. I've never had a hard disk fail except at work - and only in the plant which has massive undervoltages and spikes 24/7. I've got Maxtors, Seagates, Western Digitals, and even a really shitty Quantum, all ATA. Most are more than 5 years old, and these machines are on almost all day if not 24/7. Check your apartment’s power, if the voltage drops frequently that will kill HDD’s very quickly. If you can’t fix the problem at its source then you’ll probably need to use UPS’s for essential equipment.

Even if you’ve got the lowest quality HDDs I find it very unlikely that you’d lose that many disks in a year without outside influences.

I’ve never had a hard disk fail except at work - and only in the plant which has massive undervoltages and spikes 24/7. I’ve got Maxtors, Seagates, Western Digitals, and even a really shitty Quantum, all ATA. Most are more than 5 years old, and these machines are on almost all day if not 24/7.

]]> By: Chris http://jefflundberg.com/blog/2006/12/20/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-2817 Chris Mon, 25 Dec 2006 02:45:49 +0000 http://jefflundberg.com/blog/2006/12/20/another-one-bites-the-dust/#comment-2817 This comment is off topic and I apologize for that but I could not figure out how to contact you. Referring to http://apacheguide.org/, it's really an AMAZING tutorial and I thank you so much for it. I was wondering if you had the time, could add the Pear Module to the tutorial? Thank you This comment is off topic and I apologize for that but I could not figure out how to contact you. Referring to http://apacheguide.org/, it’s really an AMAZING tutorial and I thank you so much for it. I was wondering if you had the time, could add the Pear Module to the tutorial? Thank you

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