The Computer Megathread

[KoopaScooper]

I know that feel, actually.
My NTFS partition on my primary SATA drive keeps corrupting for whatever reason, it actually wasn't picked up by the BIOS about four times now, and it won't last much longer I'm afraid.
It's really bad that I'm still using a 200GB IDE drive with ~7 years of power-on time, no bad sectors, nothing. The failure rate has grown on recent hard drives.

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[Momentum]

keep a spare low capacity hdd with just an operating system on it for those kinds of cases. works for me.

[Trinick]

This is the first time I've ever experienced a harddrive crash, so I'm not paranoid enough to go HAM with a RAID1 configuration across 16 harddrives so that if fifteen corrupt I'll still be golden. One harddrive is suffice for me.

[aludane]

This is the first time I've ever experienced a harddrive crash, so I'm not paranoid enough to go HAM with a RAID1 configuration across 16 harddrives so that if fifteen corrupt I'll still be golden. One harddrive is suffice for me.

Got an external hard drive?

[Momentum]

i mean, dont even have it on your computer, just put it in when your other hdd crashes.

[KoopaScooper]

keep a spare low capacity hdd with just an operating system on it for those kinds of cases. works for me.

Got an external hard drive?

Both just as unreliable. Nothing is failsafe, but it's always nice to keep backups of important files on both flash device and mechanical device.

[Trinick]

Both just as unreliable. Nothing is failsafe, but it's always nice to keep backups of important files on both flash device and mechanical device.

Carbonite is failsafe.

[KoopaScooper]

Carbonite is failsafe.

But Han Solo wasn't frozen as ones and zeros now, was he?

[Trinick]

But Han Solo wasn't frozen as ones and zeros now, was he?

What? Did I accidentally make a Star Trek reference or something?

[Brian Smithers]

Give me the specs to the best computer under $3000
i wanna try something c:

[Marcem]

What? Did I accidentally make a Star Trek reference or something?

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Carbonite

[SpreadsPlague]

Give me the specs to the best computer under $3000
i wanna try something c:

best in terms of what? someone is going to throw 2 690's on it I guarantee you, and that's already 2k.

[Nickelob Ultra]

Bought a 660ti 3GB for $289 and comes with a free copy of AC3.

Going to double up my job hunting desire and hopefully get another job in order to buy another one.

[Trinick]

http://www.dropbox.com/s/pyl1l3a5iw7xcyz/Photo%20Nov%2022%2C%2011%2003%2033%20PM.jpg

The life of a sysadmin with no permanent OS ;-;

On a side note, I just set up an instance of Ubuntu inside Ubuntu using Ubuntu, on Ubuntu.

[Marcem]

http://www.dropbox.com/s/pyl1l3a5iw7xcyz/Photo%20Nov%2022%2C%2011%2003%2033%20PM.jpg

The life of a sysadmin with no permanent OS ;-;

On a side note, I just set up an instance of Ubuntu inside Ubuntu using Ubuntu, on Ubuntu.

When was the last time the X window manager was updated?