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...
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