{"id":252,"date":"2005-11-25T00:10:18","date_gmt":"2005-11-25T04:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/11\/25\/hdd-d-for-death\/"},"modified":"2005-11-25T00:10:18","modified_gmt":"2005-11-25T04:10:18","slug":"hdd-d-for-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/11\/25\/hdd-d-for-death\/","title":{"rendered":"HDD : D for &#8220;D&#8221;eath"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a1146'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Both hcs and I have had disk troubles a little more often than one<br \/>\nmight like over the past few years.&nbsp; I&#8217;m on my fourth drive now in<br \/>\n3 years.&nbsp; Is this oiverheating?&nbsp; Shared karma?&nbsp; that<br \/>\nbeantown vibe?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t overclock, play 52-part pickup, or do<br \/>\nother extravagant things, on bluesky or metamorph.&nbsp; I do regularly<br \/>\ngive thanks for my Lacie backup drive, and have even purchased<br \/>\ncommercial Win-partition rescue software, which was useful on more than<br \/>\none occasion.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve looked around to see if this is a common<br \/>\nThinkpad problem, but it doesn&#8217;t seem to be.&nbsp; At any rate, I live<br \/>\nmy computerized life lightly, expecting to leave it at any<br \/>\ntime&#8230;&nbsp; For a moment I even considered shifting to &#8216;online<br \/>\nstorage&#8217; systems before regaining my presence of mind.<\/p>\n<p>Then today I realized that the drive in my desktop machine has been the<br \/>\nsame for six years.&nbsp; Six.&nbsp; With a noisy, balky fan that&#8217;s<br \/>\nbeen replaced at least once.&nbsp; Funny, that&#8230; and I&#8217;d better make<br \/>\nextra sure to have spares for that baby on hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both hcs and I have had disk troubles a little more often than one might like over the past few years.&nbsp; I&#8217;m on my fourth drive now in 3 years.&nbsp; Is this oiverheating?&nbsp; Shared karma?&nbsp; that beantown vibe?&nbsp; I don&#8217;t overclock, play 52-part pickup, or do other extravagant things, on bluesky or metamorph.&nbsp; I do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chain-gang"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}