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I don't know why so many people have Seagate issues, I've only had one or two fail in 5 years after being used 24/7/365. But yeah, statistically, Seagate seems to be awful.
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CommieGIR posted:I don't know why so many people have Seagate issues, I've only had one or two fail in 5 years after being used 24/7/365. Nothing matches the great IBM Deskstar purge of the early 2000's. It's the only hard drive I've ever had fail except for a SCSI RAID array I pulled out of a dumpster server.
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wallaka posted:Nothing matches the great IBM Deskstar purge of the early 2000's. It's the only hard drive I've ever had fail except for a SCSI RAID array I pulled out of a dumpster server. I'm probably dating myself but I still wake up sometimes in the night if there's a sound outside that reminds me of a Quantum Fireball parking its head.
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wallaka posted:Nothing matches the great IBM Deskstar purge of the early 2000's. It's the only hard drive I've ever had fail except for a SCSI RAID array I pulled out of a dumpster server. I poo poo you not, I handled a client who had IBM workstations that blew a hard disk about every few days. Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm probably dating myself but I still wake up sometimes in the night if there's a sound outside that reminds me of a Quantum Fireball parking its head. I kinda miss SCSI sounds.
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Nov 16, 2016 05:33
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I have 3 HGST drives. One is coming up on 8 years of spin time, another is near 7 years of spin time.  One has a single bad sector. The other has 2 bad sectors. Those bad sector numbers have held steady for over 5 years. The external Western Digital makes a backup of the important poo poo every night, but also holds a ton of movies and porn. The porn and movies can be replaced if it does crap, but that drive also sits on the floor, on its side, where it can't get knocked over. e: yes I'm well aware many HGST drives are based on Deathstars. Knock on wood, I've had very good luck with them so far. randomidiot fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Nov 16, 2016 05:37
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wallaka posted:Nothing matches the great IBM Deskstar purge of the early 2000's. It's the only hard drive I've ever had fail except for a SCSI RAID array I pulled out of a dumpster server. Used to call those Deathstars, and could tell you when one was dying by walking past the server it was in. 
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Nov 16, 2016 05:58
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Liquid Communism posted:Used to call those Deathstars, and could tell you when one was dying by walking past the server it was in. We RMA'd sooooo many of those goddamn things with our vendor. We had on the scale of about 7000 computers sold with those motherfuckers in it before anybody knew they were a problem. That subsequent high pitched noise of failure, man.. I can still hear it. Those drives were my Vietnam.
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Nov 16, 2016 06:40
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Liquid Communism posted:Used to call those Deathstars, and could tell you when one was dying by walking past the server it was in. So many rare napster-downloaded songs that I never found again on any network.
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Nov 16, 2016 07:14
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My brother's 2006 Impreza has leaky gaskets. I thought they fixed them by then. Grr
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Nov 16, 2016 08:41
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Ha, they pretty much never did. Put in sti gaskets though not the oem dealer replacements.
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Nov 16, 2016 08:44
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That's what I told him to do. I don't know if he will bother fixing it though. He wants to get a Nissan Leaf.
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Nov 16, 2016 08:49
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Take it easy tt
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Nov 16, 2016 11:34
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Has anyone ever redone a shower with new backerboard, tray and tile? Wondering how much of this I can DIY.
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Nov 16, 2016 12:07
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I'm poo poo at comiserations but for what it's worth.... TT my condolances. It's not much comfort but at least her suffering is over - just one bit of advice would be to make sure the funeral is about remebering the good times. One of my aunts died a few years ago and by the end no one was crying or sad - we remebered a wonderful lady and a drat funny one too. We were all richer for having known her. Hold on to the good memories.
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Nov 16, 2016 12:35
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Seat Safety Switch posted:I'm probably dating myself but I still wake up sometimes in the night if there's a sound outside that reminds me of a Quantum Fireball parking its head. Parking for the last time, maybe. gently caress I hated those. But the Seagate 7200.11 was my Curse. gently caress those drives. We RMA'd so goddamn many of them.
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Nov 16, 2016 12:59
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jamal posted:Ha, they pretty much never did. Put in sti gaskets though not the oem dealer replacements. I don't know why they didn't come with 11044AA642s from the factory. Oh wait, yes I do, 115k miles is more than the warranty period and saves us five bucks an engine on gaskets.
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*posts a Craigslist ad looking for a youth-size ATV, "NO CHINESE JUNK!"* Can you guess what happens next?
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The local CL FB page for my school, someone's selling a loving 36" Trinitron tv for $50. A) I hope they've got a crane, and B) man I wish I could justify that. Sorry about your loss, TT. I've lost grandparents but not a parent yet, I can't imagine how gut wrenching it must be. My dad just turned 60, mom's 58 and they're both in pretty good health, so hopefully it'll be some time yet before I have to start preparing myself for the inevitable.
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Dagen H posted:*posts a Craigslist ad looking for a youth-size ATV, "NO CHINESE JUNK!"* 
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^^ Haha that was pretty goodBraveUlysses posted:Have you tried melatonin? Best sleep aid and its natural. Thanks for the reminder. I actually have 2 Costco bottles 
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Nov 16, 2016 15:10
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Very nice. Dagen where you located at? My daughter never rides her yamaha raptor 90, was thinking about selling it and getting a side by side, or golf cart for xmas.
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angryrobots posted:Dagen where you located at?. North-central Ohio. I'm looking to trade my Lincoln Ranger 10LX.
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Nov 16, 2016 15:13
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Oh, I'm a bit far away in SC. Was thinking you were Virginia or NC for some reason Edit: Dagen H posted:I'm looking to trade my Lincoln Ranger 10LX. Although this is tempting. angryrobots fucked around with this message at 15:25 on Nov 16, 2016 |
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Dagen H posted:*posts a Craigslist ad looking for a youth-size ATV, "NO CHINESE JUNK!"* An Asian man sent you a picture of his penis?
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spog posted:An Asian man sent you a picture of his penis? Yes, but it was unrelated to the CL ad.
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Nov 16, 2016 15:28
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blk posted:Has anyone ever redone a shower with new backerboard, tray and tile? Wondering how much of this I can DIY. Yes, depends how handy you are. If you know how to hang sheet rock and use a level I imagine you can do it. If that sounds challenging hire a pro. e. also tolerance for projects taking longer than expected. If it has to be done quickly hire a pro.
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angryrobots posted:Oh, I'm a bit far away in SC. Was thinking you were Virginia or NC for some reason MonkeyNutZ lives in SC and has family here in Ohio...
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Stupid biodegradable plastic housing on the rearview mirror in my FC RX-7 disintegrated when I adjusted it this morning. I'm only driving the thing because my wife is driving my Crown Vic, since the clutch is slipping in her Kia. SMH. Annoying as hell driving to work with no inside rearview. Makes me paranoid. I guess I can slap on one of the spare windshield mount ones I have in my parts boxes (the OEM one mounts to the roof, coincident with the dome light.)
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Nov 16, 2016 16:35
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blk posted:Has anyone ever redone a shower with new backerboard, tray and tile? Wondering how much of this I can DIY. Hardibacker board for the underlayer, fiberglass tape the seams, and tile mortar with polymer base for filling in the gaps between hardibacker, let it dry over night. Next day, sand down morter so it's flush with the hardibacker since it's what you're going to be tiling into. Then just do a normal tile job, you should find plenty of youtube DIY tiling videos for showers.
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:I have 3 HGST drives. One is coming up on 8 years of spin time, another is near 7 years of spin time. I ran my desktop off of a refurbished WD black that I got in 2007 that I retired last year when I finally got around to buying a SSD. I was almost tempted to keep it running until the drive died just to see how long it would last. Job chat: applied for a mid-level admin job with the Ohio Turnpike Commission late last week, heard from my friend's friend (who is a senior admin there) that I'm literally the first serious candidate they've had apply in a month of the job listing being up - apparently they only post jobs on their own website and don't use other job boards or recruiters. Got a status update this morning that my resume has cleared the bean counters in HR and is now in the hiring manager's hands. This might actually be happening 
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Our other security guard wandered onto the property late last while I was working drunk as hell, in the lobby babbling incoherently to the front desk worker, and bleeding all over because he apparently fell or got into a fight. I suggested he go home and he got combative, telling me to go ahead and call the cops. But I know better, and have dealt with drunks for way too long, and if he sees me call the cops he's going to go off the deep and and who knows how long I'd have to deal with him before they got there, so I just talked him into getting into my car and drove his dumbass home the whole time enduring his stupid loving insults and trying to get him out of my car once I got him there. Love my job.
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Geoj posted:Job chat: applied for a mid-level admin job with the Ohio Turnpike Commission late last week, heard from my friend's friend (who is a senior admin there) that I'm literally the first serious candidate they've had apply in a month of the job listing being up - apparently they only post jobs on their own website and don't use other job boards or recruiters. Good luck dude 
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Yu-Gi-Ho! posted:Her health isn't the best, and it doesn't help that anytime she has even something as benign as dental work done, she freaks out and constantly tells everyone where her will is kept. I have the opposite problem - my mom is the type to not tell anyone anything when something is wrong. I think we might've scared her straight a bit when her mother passed this year, largely as the result of blatantly ignoring her own health problems.
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Applebees Appetizer posted:Our other security guard wandered onto the property late last while I was working drunk as hell, in the lobby babbling incoherently to the front desk worker, and bleeding all over because he apparently fell or got into a fight. I suggested he go home and he got combative, telling me to go ahead and call the cops. But I know better, and have dealt with drunks for way too long, and if he sees me call the cops he's going to go off the deep and and who knows how long I'd have to deal with him before they got there, so I just talked him into getting into my car and drove his dumbass home the whole time enduring his stupid loving insults and trying to get him out of my car once I got him there. Love my job. Should have driven him into the middle of the countryside and dumped him there.
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Free Ubisoft game this month is FarCry3: Blood Dragon. Never played it until today and drat do I miss watching lovely 80's sci-fi movies! Had they distanced it further from the FarCry franchise, I would have gladly paid money to own it without batting an eye.
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FarCry 3 is great. I spent a good amount of time before getting into the story exploring the map and hunting different animals for the crafting.
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keykey posted:Free Ubisoft game this month is FarCry3: Blood Dragon. Never played it until today and drat do I miss watching lovely 80's sci-fi movies! Had they distanced it further from the FarCry franchise, I would have gladly paid money to own it without batting an eye. Blood Dragon is such a gift that I am constantly surprised it ever got made.
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slidebite posted:^^ Haha that was pretty good Just be careful with how often you use it and how much you take. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/sleep-newzzz/201102/melatonin-not-magic-bullet-sleep (hopefully that's not a ridiculous altmed or clickbait site. It looked reasonably reputable, and doesn't make any outlandish cure-all claims. Their authors don't appear to use random credentials, either, they all seem to list as a PhD not made up abbreviations for "holistic naturopath" or other hippie crunchy evidence-free bullshit.)
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Blood Dragon is such a gift that I am constantly surprised it ever got made. I love everything about it. My favorite thing so far though is doing hand crunches to regain health.
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