The last 500 Gig drive, a Seagate seems to be doing very well. No clicks of death and very quite. The format was faster and in fact everything about it is faster. I’m glad because the drive that I spent more than a week in moving my 64 bit Vista install to, started to wither and die. I don’t know if it was a victim of the lighting shock but it could be as it...
Continue reading...A Dead Terabyte
I never dreamed 20 years ago I would be talking in terabytes of memory storage. It won’t be long before we start talking about RAM in that amount. What you see here is two dead 500 GB hard drives. The one on the left is a Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 and on the right is the just replaced (#2) Western Digital Caviar Blue. Both are a little fishy. Yes, the SECOND WD drive has just failed. It...
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This is the USB modem I purchased about 5 months before the lightning strike. It was plugged into a rear USB port and had the phone line connected. All I use it for is an occasional FAX as phone modems are so obsolete, they are not installed in computers any longer. It was still hot to the touch hours after the strike. The circled areas are the burned components . The component board sets on...
Continue reading...A Bit More Gloom, but Clearing…
I just got the word back on my once wonderful Ten-Tec Omni VI amateur radio transceiver. It is a total un-repairable loss. <sniff> It was a wonderful radio for fifteen years. It was totally first class back then and still very much state of the art today, but not now, just fried silicon. Ten-Tec does make the next version in the series called the Omni VII. That design is about five years old. It loses...
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