Computers and Related Hardware/Software

11 Jan 2006, 04:39 #1741

I got my 250 for $19 after tons and tons of MIR. Black Friday 04.

11 Jan 2006, 04:40 #1742

ooo, that's right.. my 200gb was an internal bare drive.

11 Jan 2006, 04:44 #1743

dochira wrote:I got my 250 for $19 after tons and tons of MIR. Black Friday 04.

Question is, did all of your MIRs come through?

11 Jan 2006, 04:47 #1744

bmwracer wrote:
Question is, did all of your MIRs come through?

Yup, it was from Western Digital, so it was safe. Though having that much money in the hands of who-knows-who was a bit weary.

That drive is being used for BT downloads. I'm afraid I've pushed it to its edge. I'm hearing sounds come from it. It might be time to replace it. :sweat:

11 Jan 2006, 04:52 #1745

dochira wrote:Yup, it was from Western Digital, so it was safe. Though having that much money in the hands of who-knows-who was a bit weary.

That drive is being used for BT downloads. I'm afraid I've pushed it to its edge. I'm hearing sounds come from it. It might be time to replace it. :sweat:

How old is it? Seems premature, ne? :headscratch:

11 Jan 2006, 04:52 #1746

bmwracer wrote:
The 600GB was an internal IDE drive... Yours is an external USB drive, ne?

sou desu ne. it was an external hd.

im thinking of buying a desktop... just for the heck of it. and trick it out..

MIR?? ehhhhhhhhh???
:dotdotdot:

11 Jan 2006, 04:53 #1747

bmwracer wrote:
How old is it? Seems premature, ne? :headscratch:

dochira wrote:I got my 250 for $19 after tons and tons of MIR. Black Friday 04.

:mrgreen:

l-fab: MIR = mail in rebate.

11 Jan 2006, 04:55 #1748

littlemissfab wrote:

sou desu ne. it was an external hd.

im thinking of buying a desktop... just for the heck of it. and trick it out..

MIR?? ehhhhhhhhh???
:dotdotdot:

MIR = Mail In Rebate.

11 Jan 2006, 04:57 #1749

krim wrote:I got my 250 for $19 after tons and tons of MIR. Black Friday 04.

:doh: Missed that tidbit of detail. :ashamed:

11 Jan 2006, 04:59 #1750

bmwracer wrote:
:doh: Missed that tidbit of detail. :ashamed:

i missed it the first time, but i was amazed at the price, so i read it again.

at least WD drives have a 5 yr warranty.

11 Jan 2006, 05:01 #1751

oh.. those things..

11 Jan 2006, 05:06 #1752

krim wrote:at least WD drives have a 5 yr warranty.

Then Doch should contact WD... Maybe he can get a new freebie drive. :)

11 Jan 2006, 05:12 #1753

bmwracer wrote:
Then Doch should contact WD... Maybe he can get a new freebie drive. :)

yeah, but they have to die first... i think.. i've never sent one back before it's dead....

11 Jan 2006, 05:13 #1754

bmwracer wrote:
Then Doch should contact WD... Maybe he can get a new freebie drive. :)

I'll check the warranty card if I find it. It should be online as well. In retrospect, I did use and abuse that drive. At one point, my machine was on for 35 straight days, and only a vacation put an end to that streak.

11 Jan 2006, 05:15 #1755

dochira wrote:I got my 250 for $19 after tons and tons of MIR. Black Friday 04.

now that is one hell of a price, great deal. you guys should find the best deals, but black friday? that like a huge long wait in line similar to day after thanksgiving/xmas?

11 Jan 2006, 05:17 · edited #1756

dochira wrote:
I'll check the warranty card if I find it. It should be online as well. In retrospect, I did use and abuse that drive. At one point, my machine was on for 35 straight days, and only a vacation put an end to that streak.

that's not abuse, if it was, then i'd be.. uh.. a really bad charles manson like person..
my boot drive (40gb seagate) has been running almost continuously since i got it in 2002.. save for power outages, swapping hardware and vacations and really hot days in the summer...

i rarely shut my g4 down, since i used to run SETI, then went to the dnet projects, and now im doing protein folding.

11 Jan 2006, 05:18 #1757

krim wrote:
yeah, but they have to die first... i think.. i've never sent one back before it's dead....

If it's five years, heck if it's two years, I think I can cause the drive to die....after I backup the files on it of course. :hehe:

qilver wrote:
now that is one hell of a price, great deal. you guys should find the best deals, but black friday? that like a huge long wait in line similar to day after thanksgiving/xmas?

It was that long at Circuit City. Everyone was after the laptops/computers. I just needed the drive and made a beeline for them. I was in and out in 45 minutes (I took a look at the other stuff there ;) ). And I got a bagel and OJ to boot! :woot:

11 Jan 2006, 05:22 #1758

dochira wrote:I'll check the warranty card if I find it. It should be online as well. In retrospect, I did use and abuse that drive. At one point, my machine was on for 35 straight days, and only a vacation put an end to that streak.

That's only a mere 840 hours... The MTBF for hard drives is like 20K-30K hours, which is almost three years of continual running, ne?

11 Jan 2006, 05:24 #1759

bmwracer wrote:
That's only a mere 840 hours... The MTBF for hard drives is like 20K-30K hours, which is almost three years of continual running, ne?

That's true.

The streak was the longest. I've had others of 25-30 days (interrupted by the occasionally hotfix).

But I'm wondering if this drive will be on the low end of the mean time.

11 Jan 2006, 05:51 #1760

Just got myself a new Seagate SATA 400gb HD. Boy formatting this bad boy takes a while :sweat:

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