Filed under: chain-gang
Both hcs and I have had disk troubles a little more often than one
might like over the past few years. I’m on my fourth drive now in
3 years. Is this oiverheating? Shared karma? that
beantown vibe? I don’t overclock, play 52-part pickup, or do
other extravagant things, on bluesky or metamorph. I do regularly
give thanks for my Lacie backup drive, and have even purchased
commercial Win-partition rescue software, which was useful on more than
one occasion. I’ve looked around to see if this is a common
Thinkpad problem, but it doesn’t seem to be. At any rate, I live
my computerized life lightly, expecting to leave it at any
time… For a moment I even considered shifting to ‘online
storage’ systems before regaining my presence of mind.
Then today I realized that the drive in my desktop machine has been the
same for six years. Six. With a noisy, balky fan that’s
been replaced at least once. Funny, that… and I’d better make
extra sure to have spares for that baby on hand.