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Imminent death.
Sideways:
External HD for the win!
They rock. I have one, I may get another. They run off USB 2.0, and I don't notice any problems with transferring info between it and my computer. It's instantaneous, so far as I've seen.
Incidentally; spinless... your avatar scares me.
Se7en:
external drives are too slow and too expensive for me. I just use whatever leftovers i have. Im using a 160 SATA samsung, a 200 GB SATA seagate, and a 250 GB ATA hitachi at the moment, in various machines.
"backing up" for me, means shuffling important data around the network a bit.
Anyway, im racking my brains trying to think of the name of my usual hard drive test program.. ironically the programs only on my WD raptor test hard drive. I think...
Luke:
...I have a 256MB jumper...
*feels very small*
TheLoweringTide:
Check out your hard drive manufacturer's website for a bootable diagnostic tool. Run that and see what it comes up with (just don't accidentally do something crazy like a low level format.)
I actually just lost an entire 60GB hard drive full of mp3s and movies. The drive was kind of glitchy for years, and occasionally even lost a few files or folders, but I'd just back up the important data, reformat it and hope for the best. Until it completely died on me. So if you're going to continue to use the drive, I'd highly recommend backing it up as often as is reasonable, and if it shows any other signs of further decay, replace it before it's too late.
shrimp:
--- Quote from: Spinless ---The avatar is intended to give nightmares.
--- End quote ---
Try harder wee man! Thats all I can suggest ;)
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