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Kids today have no idea just how often drives failed back in the day.
by russdill 2y ago
Kids today have no idea just how often drives failed back in the day.
- earleybird 2y agoIBM deathstar[0] drives in a collection of RS6000's is still too fresh in my memory :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar
- magicalhippo 2y agoLost the first five years of my source code thanks to a Deathstar. Still miffed about it, would have enjoyed looking back at it from time to time. Learned a valuable lesson in backups though...
- MenhirMike 2y agoSame, that was also my lesson that RAID is an availability mechanism, not a data safety/backup one. (Of course, Ransomware would also hammer that point home for many later on)
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 2y agoMy first 5mb winchester failed every day. So the day began with reformatting it and restoring from last night's floppy disks backup.
- red-iron-pine 2y ago"you could actually hear it die! the 'click of death' " "sure, grandpa, drives make noise [rolls eyes]"