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Gamecab:
All,

Last Saturday my PC's hard drive suffered an electical problem which burnt out the PC board of the drive.

gprime:
Wow, that really stinks.

I think I need to invest in a backup solution before it's too late.

2 year old hard disks running on a RAID-0 is just asking for troube.

Gamecab:
The Only PLUS side in the is that I did remove the old PCB from the hard drive and replaced it with the PCB from another hard drive.  The Harddrive spun up but was reported as a failure in my Bios.  This was due to the fact that the drive PCB was from a different Western Digital drive (40GB).
As soon as I Zapped by hard drive I smelled the funky smell of electronic parts that just were not strong enough to take the load they were dealt.  When I removed the board I noticed a dark discoloration in the insulation for the PCB as well as a bubble in one of the IC Chips.  So with that in mind, I'm pretty sure a replacement board from the exact model will save the data.

Don't ask what I was doing when I overloaded the hard drive with current, but lets be thankfull that I didn't take the whole computer out in the process.

Flinkly:
so...what were you doing when it wonked out?



seriously though, i wouldn't be so interested if you wouldn't have mentioned not to ask

markrvp:
I weep for you Charlie.  Just the fear of that is why I have a raid 0, +1 dual redundant server with an extra one-touch backup external drive just in case.

I'm not sure how many curse words you said, but I'm saying some more for you now.  Just today I was wondering what happened to the volcano cones.  Don't sweat it.  Monday shipping is FINE.

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