That is sarcasm. Kat had a 1TB drive (two 500s in RAID 0) from Maxtor that died right before Christmas. I didn’t realize it was a RAID but I should have. Then her 500GB MyBook snuffed it. That left me with a holiday project. <\/p>\n
I thought some of the drives might be saved. The Maxtor fan died do I thought, hey, could be the enclosure, right? The data was important but not crucial; we resolved that it was gone. Still, I tried — I ordered a NexStar enclosure and some new drives but tried the old drives in the NexStar first. Drives good; data unrecoverable. So after some complicated formatting, I got two new 1TB drives in there for Kat’s new rig. They are FAT32 but I want them to be Mac Extended. Can’t find an easy way to do that via an enclosure tho. <\/p>\n
The MyBook was a total loss. Second one of those to completely shit the bed in four months. At least I knew how to take it apart.<\/p>\n
But since she now has 2TB of new storage, I got the old Maxtors (which turned out to be Seagate Barracudas). Now I have a big 500GB backup drive, a spare 500GB in its own enclosure (for music file transfer), and my old 200GB backup is floating free but still quite good. <\/p>\n
Oh, and the nice new sound card won’t play nice yet. What up, Fatal1ty? Another hour and all should be fine. <\/p>\n
Computers aren’t all bad. I wrote and posted this in the car on an iPhone. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
That is sarcasm. Kat had a 1TB drive (two 500s in RAID 0) from Maxtor that died right before Christmas. I didn’t realize it was a RAID but I should have. Then her 500GB MyBook snuffed it. That left me … Continue reading