Computers and Related Hardware/Software

bmwracer wrote:
How did you create the first ghost image?

Does the ghost image using Norton have more files than the other image?

I use Norton Ghost, restart and boot from CD and create the partition C: drive to a Ghost Image file, must locate the ghost image file to save to other local drive partition. It's just an image file with its extension is " .Gho" ... :sweat:

and also can use it to Ghost a image of a HDD to another HDD, just something like clone :bonk:

Finally switched over to Firefox3, since Firefox2 was not being updated anymore... :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:Finally switched over to Firefox3, since Firefox2 was not being updated anymore... :sweat:

Funny, they must have listened to your cries. I was prompted for an update to FF2. :hehe:

dochira wrote:Funny, they must have listened to your cries. I was prompted for an update to FF2. :hehe:

Yeah, it's the LAST update for FF2, so I figured the time was right.

And besides, they finally ported the Obit Yellow theme to FF3. :victory:

I'm gonna have to bite the bullet soon. I hope the Rikaichan and Moji addons work with 3 :fingerscrossed:

Anime Dad wrote:I'm gonna have to bite the bullet soon. I hope the Rikaichan and Moji addons work with 3 :fingerscrossed:

You can always check if the add-ons are available before committing, like I did: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox

Picked up a 500GB Buffalo Tech external drive from Fry's for $75. :victory:

Meri Kurisumasu to me. :mrgreen:

Ill just let you know now that we bought a 1TB BUffalo a while back, and it took over a year to get a replacement. I think it died after like 2 months.

krim wrote:Ill just let you know now that we bought a 1TB BUffalo a while back, and it took over a year to get a replacement. I think it died after like 2 months.

I was afraid someone would say something like that. :sweat:

Yeah, sorry. They may have improved their customer service, but our techie hounded them the entire year for the replacement. Since it was supposed to be a department backup, we lost about 6 months worth of non-critical data. Fortunately, I had most of it on my local still and I was able to recreate a new backup.

i'm guessing someone will say that you shouldn't use something like that as a backup. Using a proper RAID 5 or something would've been preferable, but we wrote to it maybe 8 times tops (once a week). It still shouldn't have failed in two months.

krim wrote:i'm guessing someone will say that you shouldn't use something like that as a backup. Using a proper RAID 5 or something would've been preferable, but we wrote to it maybe 8 times tops (once a week). It still shouldn't have failed in two months.

Yeah, that's true...

I didn't really intend it as a backup, but merely a large temporary storage for downloads before they get burned/archived.... In other words, it lets me be lazy. :beaten:

Yeah, temporary storage.... that's what we said too. :sweat: :sweat:

krim wrote:Yeah, temporary storage.... that's what we said too. :sweat: :sweat:

Would a Seagate or WD external be any better?

It's the luck of the draw I think, since they're all pretty much internal HDDs with an enclosure and some electronics, huh?

bmwracer wrote:
Would a Seagate or WD external be any better?

It's the luck of the draw I think, since they're all pretty much internal HDDs with an enclosure and some electronics, huh?

there were 2 500gb WDs inside, RAID 0. The power supply in the Buffalo enclosure fried the first drive in the chain. There were scorch marks around the 4 pin power plug. Second drive was fine, but since it's a RAID 0, it was useless.

AND before you say it. It was in server room (50F) mounted on 1 of 4 racks w/ 2 other Dell PowerEdge servers. The power was conditioned, surge protected and connected to a 2 day UPS.

krim wrote:there were 2 500gb WDs inside, RAID 0. The power supply in the Buffalo enclosure fried the first drive in the chain. There were scorch marks around the 4 pin power plug. Second drive was fine, but since it's a RAID 0, it was useless.

AND before you say it. It was in server room (50F) mounted on 1 of 4 racks w/ 2 other Dell PowerEdge servers. The power was conditioned, surge protected and connected to a 2 day UPS.

I wouldn't have thought it was heat-related... Sounds like something shorted.

Unusual, but it does happen. :sweat:

We had some circuit boards at work which had the electrolytic capacitors installed backwards: over time, during use, the capacitors self-destructed along with the board... :sweat:

yeah, but someone would've mentioned it at some point..

"maybe it overheated"
etc etc

i thought i'd get it out of the way.

I got a WD 640G external HDD for Christmas. Here's hoping it lasts :fingerscrossed:

Anime Dad wrote:I got a WD 640G external HDD for Christmas. Here's hoping it lasts :fingerscrossed:

It will if you don't use it. :beaten: :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
It will if you don't use it. :beaten: :sweat:

Too late :puppydog:

Anime Dad wrote:I'm gonna have to bite the bullet soon. I hope the Rikaichan and Moji addons work with 3 :fingerscrossed:

I just installed FF3 (after being bugged about it for a while) and both of these addons are compatible with FF3. You may need to update them.