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" ...

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

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

bmwracer wrote:

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

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

dochira wrote:

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

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.

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

Anime Dad wrote:

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

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.

Meri Kurisumasu to me.

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.

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.

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

krim wrote:

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

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.

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...

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

Anime Dad wrote:

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

It will if you don't use it.

bmwracer wrote:

It will if you don't use it.

Too late

Anime Dad wrote:

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

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.