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motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-01 06:13:16
May 01 2011 05:39 GMT
#1
It is with great sadness that I say farewell to my 120GB Western Digital hard drive after 7.5 years of service. With the amount of punishment I put on that hard drive (lots of downloading, installing, and deleting), it's a miracle that it lasted so long.

I downloaded Portal 2 because I'm a college student with no money. At 88%, the download stopped, with an error: "Failed Cyclic Redundancy Check". Hmm, I thought. That's a strange error. Let's google it. The first result from google basically said "Your hard drive is dying, back up everything."

At that moment I had only seconds to save what was important and unreplaceable on my hard drive: my most recently updated résumé and my cool NASL graphics. Alas, I was an idiot and simply watched my computer die instead.

Rest in peace, good buddy. You've seen a lot of shit in your day. Sorry for installing and uninstalling UT 2004 twenty times and for constantly downloading albums, listening once, and then deleting. Also, sorry for not defragmenting you, ever. Also, sorry for putting you in an optical drive slot because I don't know how my computer's case works.

Hmm, no wonder it died.

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ModeratorGood content always wins.
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
May 01 2011 05:45 GMT
#2
:/ you're going to have to redo the graphics + resume?
Writer
Chairman Ray
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States11903 Posts
May 01 2011 05:46 GMT
#3
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!
darklordjac
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada2231 Posts
May 01 2011 05:58 GMT
#4
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.
Mikilatov
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States3897 Posts
May 01 2011 05:58 GMT
#5
=( Well, at the very least you've done a service to me, reminding me to update my backups which are ~6 months old.

RIP HD. =(
♥ I used to lasso the shit out of your tournaments =( ♥ | Much is my hero. | zizi yO~ | Be Nice, TL.
Wala.Revolution
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
7584 Posts
May 01 2011 06:01 GMT
#6
Infinitestory expresses his condolences; alas he cannot post in your blogs.
Stuck.
BloodDrunK
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
Bangladesh2767 Posts
May 01 2011 06:10 GMT
#7
after seeing this i'm afraid that my HD is gonna do the same to me soon.

R.I.P HD.
You have the power to create your own destiny.
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
May 01 2011 06:12 GMT
#8
On May 01 2011 15:01 Wala.Revolution wrote:
Infinitestory expresses his condolences; alas he cannot post in your blogs.

Whoops, that's fixed.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
May 01 2011 06:25 GMT
#9
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


This is seriously the truth... How did you manage? Did you have more than one hard drive? ~_~
Life?
Crais
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada2136 Posts
May 01 2011 06:48 GMT
#10
RIP HD
RIP MBC Game Hero
GTR
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
51593 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-05-01 07:23:58
May 01 2011 07:00 GMT
#11
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


inflation! instead of downloading mp3s and xvid videos we are (or at least myself at least) moving up to flacs and 1080p rips.
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motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
May 01 2011 07:13 GMT
#12
On May 01 2011 15:25 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


This is seriously the truth... How did you manage? Did you have more than one hard drive? ~_~

I've trained a sense of what's important to keep on your computer that I think will last me for the rest of my life...

I cleaned out my computer almost constantly. I rarely archived a movie unless it was something I didn't think I'd be able to get later.

I only regret deleting one thing... and that was an HD copy of the legendary Nadal vs Federer Wimbledon match from a couple years back. Ah well...
ModeratorGood content always wins.
IskatuMesk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada969 Posts
May 01 2011 07:50 GMT
#13
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


I have 7.5tb and I regularly feel the limits of my space.
sYz-Adrenaline
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1850 Posts
May 01 2011 07:59 GMT
#14
rush order~
Can you feel the rush?
chaokel
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia535 Posts
May 01 2011 08:04 GMT
#15
On May 01 2011 16:50 IskatuMesk wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


I have 7.5tb and I regularly feel the limits of my space.


o.O and i thought i was using a lot, since i'm going to be getting another drive after filling 1.5tb
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
May 01 2011 08:11 GMT
#16
On May 01 2011 16:59 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:
rush order~

I hear this guy is the #1 player on the Iraqi server.
ModeratorGood content always wins.
sYz-Adrenaline
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States1850 Posts
May 01 2011 08:21 GMT
#17
On May 01 2011 17:11 motbob wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 16:59 sYz-Adrenaline wrote:
rush order~

I hear this guy is the #1 player on the Iraqi server.


It's all because of you! My appreciation to the writers/mods/TL Senior members knows no bounds. (well when I'm in a good mood)
Can you feel the rush?
IskatuMesk
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada969 Posts
May 01 2011 09:09 GMT
#18
On May 01 2011 17:04 chaokel wrote:
Show nested quote +
On May 01 2011 16:50 IskatuMesk wrote:
On May 01 2011 14:58 darklordjac wrote:
On May 01 2011 14:46 Chairman Ray wrote:
120 GB? HOW DO YOU MANAGE!!!


Honestly, I have 1 tb and there is times I feel thats too small.


I have 7.5tb and I regularly feel the limits of my space.


o.O and i thought i was using a lot, since i'm going to be getting another drive after filling 1.5tb


A few hours of 1920x1200 fraps recordings eats a tremendous amount of HD... and then managing multiple video projects at once + casts. yeah, there's like 3.5tb dedicated to recording alone.
Guthix
Profile Joined April 2011
United States209 Posts
May 01 2011 09:21 GMT
#19
How do you people use up so much space!?!? I'm using a laptop from 2007 with only 74.5 GB of space and I still have 25 GB of free space. You all must download pr0nz nonstop or something.
Naniwa fighting!
motbob
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
United States12546 Posts
May 01 2011 09:24 GMT
#20
On May 01 2011 18:21 Lumbridge wrote:
How do you people use up so much space!?!? I'm using a laptop from 2007 with only 74.5 GB of space and I still have 25 GB of free space. You all must download pr0nz nonstop or something.

BF:BC2 is like 15GB of space. SC2 is 12GB. Add a few more games, a music collection, and some HD copies of films, and you're hurting for space on a 120GB hard drive.
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