Its oh so quiet Shh Shh

[ConcinusMan]

Dangerously over optimistic I think.

[infernalis]

All this talk of the UK has me sitting here in drifting down memory lane......

In 1991 I was lucky to be on one of the first few flights into Stansted when the new Terminal opened. The building is nothing short of magnificent.

Just now I read about the public sector strike, Not good for people with passports trying to get cleared to leave the airport.

Anyways, We boarded a bus for Victoria station, transfered to another for the journey up to Liverpool. Our original flight was to land in Manchester, But I forgot to bring the passports!! so we had to make do, A nice travel agent in Toronto got us on a tourist charter to London for $75 a seat, so it was the only option.

In retrospect, I am glad it happened that way, otherwise I never would have been inside the awesome (Architecturally) Stansted terminal at all.

[Stefan-A]

Impending hard drive failure. brb.

[infernalis]

Good luck Stefan.

Got you covered.

[Stefan-A]

Well, apparently it didn't break quite yet. Maybe later. The tiny blacksmith inside my hard drive seems to have gone away for now. Apparently he only works mornings when everything is nice and cool.

[infernalis]

I'm sure you already know this.. when the banging starts, backup everything important.

What make is the drive?

[Stefan-A]

I'm sure you already know this.. when the banging starts, backup everything important.

What make is the drive?

Already did a week ago when I heard the first gentle knocks. Two copies, in fact.

It's a Samsung. 36 month warranty, lasted 45.

On a stupid note, I paid way too much for its future replacement. I could have gotten a 2 TB external drive for the same price as this 320 GB.

[infernalis]

The market on those things is strange. Last year Wal Mart had a "black Friday" special on 500gb external drives for $40 each, I picked up two. Both are filled already, Mostly TV shows and movies.

"tiny blacksmith" cool

[Stefan-A]

Actually, I take that back. The price of this particular model in several other stores seems to be pretty much exactly what I paid half an hour ago. They said the price of hard drives had tripled and blamed it on the floods in Thailand. Which seems plausible.

Still, I wonder if I couldn't have gotten a good enough 2 TB drive by buying an external drive and cannibalizing it. It certainly worked once before, a few years ago.

[infernalis]

Too bad you did not live over here....

Newegg.com - Internal Hard Drives

this one looks like a great deal. you still using that bohemouth tower?