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leapinlew:


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 07, 2007, 03:48:02 pm ---To be honest though, why take a chance when you don't have to? Far better to play it safe than gamble with data on a HDD. I don't know about you, but I'd rather play the games or make improvements to a cab than to spend time and money making repairs that could've been avoided.

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I guess thats one way to live your life, but damn... I don't consider a hard drive head crash a risk.


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 07, 2007, 03:48:02 pm ---Meet Murphy. I had a 13GB Seagate purchased in '97

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Perhaps the problem with your 10 year old drive that crashed was that it was 10 years old...

SavannahLion:


--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 07, 2007, 04:31:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 07, 2007, 03:48:02 pm ---Meet Murphy. I had a 13GB Seagate purchased in '97

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Perhaps the problem with your 10 year old drive that crashed was that it was 10 years old...

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What gave you the idea that it crashed this year?

leapinlew:


--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 07, 2007, 04:46:06 pm ---
--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 07, 2007, 04:31:35 pm ---
--- Quote from: SavannahLion on March 07, 2007, 03:48:02 pm ---Meet Murphy. I had a 13GB Seagate purchased in '97

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Perhaps the problem with your 10 year old drive that crashed was that it was 10 years old...

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What gave you the idea that it crashed this year?

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Hard drives that were built 10 years ago aren't as reliable as hard drives built today. A hard drive that old possible needed to be parked. PinballJim was saying it hasn't been an issue in over a decade and you counter with a hard drive thats a decade old. Nice.  ;)

I agree that shutting down a computer improperly can cause some issues, but I disagree that the most obvious is a "harddrive head crash". More than likely, you can corrupt some files.

ahofle:


--- Quote from: leapinlew on March 07, 2007, 04:50:45 pm ---Hard drives that were built 10 years ago aren't as reliable as hard drives built today.

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Not that this has anything to do with your argument, but I would have to disagree with this, at least based on my experience.  It seems like the number of harddrives that I've had fail or die in recent years is exponentially higher than about a decade ago.  My old 200Mhz Pentium Pro from 1996 has two drives in it, both of which still work fine.  Likewise, my old P2 450Mhz still has its original drives.  Seems like in the last few years I've had several drives go bad in their first year!  I hear similar stories from friends.  Could just be my luck, but they sure seem to be less reliable than before.  I had just figured the higher drive capacities (and companies' neverending cost cutting) were the reason.  :dunno

FrizzleFried:

Damn...I am a dumbass.  I have my two stand up cabinets set up to power up with the re-start of power because I use a toggle switch to turn them on and off (as a normal arcade would)...you are all 100% correct that this bios setting isn't necessary with the way I have the cabinet wired up with the smart power...duh.

I guess I just got so used to doing things one way...

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