Requiem for a drive
Hey guys! The last post was a giant block to the site fundamental. I put quite a lot of efforts into the post, but now I realize that’s not my maximum. There are still interesting thoughts and ideas to share, a long way to go. I’m not really if Dave Pape has read my blog and get inspired, and I’m quite sure the general idea of my blog is flying in the air these days, but he’s started a Reakor diary at blogspot. I couldn’t put any serious attention to the blog yet, but I think it’s great it goes detailed and video attached. And one of the main reasons for my long delay after the recent post is my new hdd’s crash down. I’m building my new PC system and recently bought Samsung SpinPoint 160G hard disk drive. The drive was working for 5 days without a flaw, next day it began to experience huge calibration problems for some strange reason. And right after I managed to back up all the data it just died, it died next reboot right after the backup. There was no risk to lose any important data including my Reaktor related stuff, but still quite unusual death case for a drive. 
See you soon! P.S. The artwork uses my old IBM deskstar 80G which is also dead 
April 6th, 2007 17:19
burned at work
few days ago my monitor also died
April 9th, 2007 20:44
Don’t give up, guys! Yesterday shit-biking-ride kills my rear brake and derauler. Keep on moving! :]
April 10th, 2007 21:48
Blew second gear on my motorcycle. Rode it to work today. Took a G35, with a 1-3 upshift! HAHAHA!
KEEP ON KEEPIN ON!
April 13th, 2007 17:42
Just swapped the hdd with another one, now I think I have good chances to get a diehard drive
April 14th, 2007 13:32
Good luck!
April 17th, 2007 15:45
Thanks for the namecheck – I had read your blog before I started the Reaktor Diary, I remember thinking “Hmm, I might have to break out the video camera here”. Good luck with the new hard drive, the QM and the bikes…
April 23rd, 2007 14:08
Thanks, my new hdd seems very well, I’m about to comeback to web life.
Btw, I was thinking about videos before start my blog. I found a nice screen>flash video capture – CamStudio, it’s freeware. I might will do some videos for the blog as well.
Here is the url http://www.camstudio.org/
April 27th, 2007 16:47
Nice one! I’m used to working with Premiere and Snagit now, but would love to see how Camstudio works for you. Drop me a line when you get it going, and best of luck mate!
Dave
April 28th, 2007 00:34
Thanks! The good thing about Camstudio is a lossless copression within swf flash file, it’s great for building tutorial and stuff. I’m not really sure it’s that useful for my blog which I’d like to see generally for conceptual things instead tutorial, but there is some place for tips and tricks which needs to be visualized.
Basically, I think I’m going to use CamStudio for tweak sessions. I think people would love to see how things get tuned in realtime.
June 21st, 2007 07:40
My IBM deskstar 80G just died last week, and I believe it’s the controller electronics, because the PC won’t boot when it’s connected.
If your deskstar died because the HDD wouldn’t spin-up, but the BIOS could still recognize the model number, etc. the electronics may still be good. And I might be able to recover my data by swapping your circuit board with my old one.
My drive is P/N 07N9210 build Mar-2002
IC35L080AVVA07-0 82.3GB
Let me know if it’s possible.
June 21st, 2007 20:21
I’ve got exact the same model of the drive. The only difference is that mine one has build Feb instead Mar. My drive has got bad all the surface, but electronics seems to be ok. Make sure you’ve bad electronics and there is no chances to get it where you live. I’m not really sure about the shipping, I live quite far from Europe/USA.