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My terrible fortune with external harddrives.

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DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
February 26 2010 05:02 GMT
#1
About 2 weeks ago, my cat knocked my external harddrive off of my desk. I had roughly 300 gigabytes of anime, and 100 gigabytes of music videos/performance videos/etc. on it. I sent it back about 2 days after that happened and just got my new one today. It was a different model, which surprised me, but the storage space was the same. 1TB.

Today, when I went to go take a shower, I did not notice that the power supply for the harddrive was wrapped around the arm of my chair. When I pulled my chair back, it pulled the external harddrive off of my desk and onto the floor, breaking it.

I have now lost 170 gb of anime that I had just moved from my "Downloads" folder to it.

Luckily all WD products come with a 2 year warranty.

From now on I'm taping that motherfucker to the desk.

***
RIP Aaliyah
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-26 05:04:51
February 26 2010 05:04 GMT
#2
rofl drh

you gotta watch where you put things ;____;

that or get 1TB worth of flash drives
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
February 26 2010 05:05 GMT
#3
lmao... I keep mine in the desk drawer, although I have almost dumped a coffee on it, its relatively safe. Do you prop yours up or lay it flat?
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66356 Posts
February 26 2010 05:05 GMT
#4
On February 26 2010 14:02 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
About 2 weeks ago, my cat

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nayumi
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Australia6499 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-26 05:11:12
February 26 2010 05:07 GMT
#5
lol one of my 500GBs died for NO FUCKING REASON once. It was like I shut down the computer and headed to bed. Next morning, the hard drive couldn't be detected at all. I tried to use a different port, switched the cable, everything that came to my mind at the moment but nothing worked. So I sent it to the shop, and they tried to detect it with their computer but failed. Well of course I had a new one in exchange but not the fucking 400GB of HD movies that took me months to collect

I hate it so much when my hard drives go fubar for whatever reason, mainly because of the data loss.
Sugoi monogatari onii-chan!
jonnyp
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
United States415 Posts
February 26 2010 05:07 GMT
#6
On February 26 2010 14:04 FragKrag wrote:
rofl drh

you gotta watch where you put things ;____;

that or get 1TB worth of flash drives


D: that would be terrible trying to sort through them all.

I feel like a noob, I haven't even used the 140 gb's on my laptop HD lol
The number of years it takes for the Internet to move past anything is way, way over 9000.
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-02-26 05:09:56
February 26 2010 05:09 GMT
#7
On February 26 2010 14:05 meeple wrote:
lmao... I keep mine in the desk drawer, although I have almost dumped a coffee on it, its relatively safe. Do you prop yours up or lay it flat?


Propped up on the highest level of the desk like an idiot. There isn't anywhere else for me to put it really. I'm buying a new desk soon so I plan on getting something with some lower shelving.

I'm gonna start backing my shit up on discs too jic.
RIP Aaliyah
Spazer
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
Canada8031 Posts
February 26 2010 05:10 GMT
#8
On February 26 2010 14:02 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Today, when I went to go take a shower, I did not notice that the power supply for the harddrive was wrapped around the arm of my chair.
How exactly did the power supply end up there? Do you have wires running down the front of your desk or something? I'm just having a hard time picturing a setup where this could occur...
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konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66356 Posts
February 26 2010 05:10 GMT
#9
On February 26 2010 14:09 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 26 2010 14:05 meeple wrote:
lmao... I keep mine in the desk drawer, although I have almost dumped a coffee on it, its relatively safe. Do you prop yours up or lay it flat?


Propped up on the highest level of the desk like an idiot. There isn't anywhere else for me to put it really. I'm buying a new desk soon so I plan on getting something with some lower shelving.

I'm gonna start backing my shit up on discs too jic.

Just put it on the floor

all the animu T__T
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GW.Methos
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States249 Posts
February 26 2010 05:11 GMT
#10
cats are dangerous animals
LMAO
i.pwn.n00bs
meeple
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Canada10211 Posts
February 26 2010 05:15 GMT
#11
On February 26 2010 14:09 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 26 2010 14:05 meeple wrote:
lmao... I keep mine in the desk drawer, although I have almost dumped a coffee on it, its relatively safe. Do you prop yours up or lay it flat?


Propped up on the highest level of the desk like an idiot. There isn't anywhere else for me to put it really. I'm buying a new desk soon so I plan on getting something with some lower shelving.

I'm gonna start backing my shit up on discs too jic.


Ah yeah, I started doing that but dvds are just too small... and take so long to burn. Its only really worth it if the stuff is somewhat irreplaceable.
thunk
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States6233 Posts
February 26 2010 05:16 GMT
#12
What one needs is a really solid back up solution. I need to find a really good backup solution, but I never learn.
Every time Jung Myung Hoon builds a vulture, two probes die. || My post count was a palindrome and I was never posting again.
Divinek
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
Canada4045 Posts
February 26 2010 05:20 GMT
#13
On February 26 2010 14:10 Spazer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 26 2010 14:02 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Today, when I went to go take a shower, I did not notice that the power supply for the harddrive was wrapped around the arm of my chair.
How exactly did the power supply end up there? Do you have wires running down the front of your desk or something? I'm just having a hard time picturing a setup where this could occur...


yeah im a bit confused by this too, i cant imagine any set up where the wires cant go around the back of whatever you're using somehow. My external hdd is just in a drawer, no funky shit happening to it in there. A well ventilated drawer where cats that I don't have can't get at it.
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Oh goodness me, FOX tv where do you get your sight? Can't you keep track, the puck is black. That's why the ice is white.
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
February 26 2010 05:24 GMT
#14
On February 26 2010 14:10 Spazer wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 26 2010 14:02 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Today, when I went to go take a shower, I did not notice that the power supply for the harddrive was wrapped around the arm of my chair.
How exactly did the power supply end up there? Do you have wires running down the front of your desk or something? I'm just having a hard time picturing a setup where this could occur...


I'll take a picture of my setup with the broken drive.

Don't be shocked at my disgusting hikikkomori cave

+ Show Spoiler +
[image loading]


So, as you can see, the power supply is running down the front of the desk into my power strip. The smart thing to do would have been to pull my desk back an inch and run the cord down the back but I'm not smart.
RIP Aaliyah
DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
February 26 2010 05:25 GMT
#15
On February 26 2010 14:20 Divinek wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 26 2010 14:10 Spazer wrote:
On February 26 2010 14:02 DoctorHelvetica wrote:
Today, when I went to go take a shower, I did not notice that the power supply for the harddrive was wrapped around the arm of my chair.
How exactly did the power supply end up there? Do you have wires running down the front of your desk or something? I'm just having a hard time picturing a setup where this could occur...


yeah im a bit confused by this too, i cant imagine any set up where the wires cant go around the back of whatever you're using somehow. My external hdd is just in a drawer, no funky shit happening to it in there. A well ventilated drawer where cats that I don't have can't get at it.


It can go around the back but im stupid and put it in the front
RIP Aaliyah
FragKrag
Profile Blog Joined September 2007
United States11552 Posts
February 26 2010 05:26 GMT
#16
room needs cleaning imo
*TL CJ Entusman #40* "like scissors does anything to paper except MAKE IT MORE NUMEROUS" -paper
GW.Methos
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
United States249 Posts
February 26 2010 05:30 GMT
#17
On February 26 2010 14:26 FragKrag wrote:
room needs cleaning imo


omg yeah lol
i.pwn.n00bs
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66356 Posts
February 26 2010 05:32 GMT
#18
is that a kuriboh i see
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DoctorHelvetica
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States15034 Posts
February 26 2010 05:33 GMT
#19
On February 26 2010 14:32 konadora wrote:
is that a kuriboh i see

yes

i would normally be concerned but i have like 8 kuribohs so idc really
RIP Aaliyah
PH
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
United States6173 Posts
February 26 2010 05:43 GMT
#20
I hate using external hard drives. I lost my first music collection (more than 80GB of music) to an external hard drive failure.

As a result, for my next computer, I built a desktop with a case with six internal hard drive slots. I have ONE external that I only use to move shit around, like giving large folders to friends and whatnot.

MY HEART WAS RIPPED FROM MY BODY THAT FIRST TIME.
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