This is more like a notification, not a request for help (I used to do hard disk recovery a few years ago so I'm good) but basically just incase anyone was wondering "hey, what happened to MPM" ..
I thought juggling 50+ hours a week at sprint, the business, my hobbies, my life, all the time spent driving to/from work (45 mins one way), new projects (se-r spec v cams, redline ecu, etc) were difficult... until my hard disk decided without warning to take a dump on me.
Let me tell you, it qualified as "spectacular catastrophic failure".
I was playing some quake 3 (recently took 3rd in a 100 man tournament and was trying to improve the skillz) when suddenly, without warning, the hard disk decided a head crash was in order.
For those who don't know, the hard disk consists of several trays (called platters) which store information on "hard" disks magnetically. My drive rotates at 7200 rpm. It's an IBM "desk star" (which I later found out is also called the "death star" for this very problem) drive. IBM is usually considered top shelf for hard disks.
Apparently what happens *edit - on this model of hard disk* is the spindle (The little arm that reads the data) gets "snagged" on the lubricating coating on top of the disk and basically drags across it. The sound it makes is very similar to a cat dying.
Oh and it's BAAAAAD. This drive is going to take me a VERY long time to recover anything from. Out of the first 25% I was only able to recover 12 files. Should have been more like 4,000.
So this is gonna put a dent in some product turnaround times and development.
I thought juggling 50+ hours a week at sprint, the business, my hobbies, my life, all the time spent driving to/from work (45 mins one way), new projects (se-r spec v cams, redline ecu, etc) were difficult... until my hard disk decided without warning to take a dump on me.
Let me tell you, it qualified as "spectacular catastrophic failure".
I was playing some quake 3 (recently took 3rd in a 100 man tournament and was trying to improve the skillz) when suddenly, without warning, the hard disk decided a head crash was in order.
For those who don't know, the hard disk consists of several trays (called platters) which store information on "hard" disks magnetically. My drive rotates at 7200 rpm. It's an IBM "desk star" (which I later found out is also called the "death star" for this very problem) drive. IBM is usually considered top shelf for hard disks.
Apparently what happens *edit - on this model of hard disk* is the spindle (The little arm that reads the data) gets "snagged" on the lubricating coating on top of the disk and basically drags across it. The sound it makes is very similar to a cat dying.
Oh and it's BAAAAAD. This drive is going to take me a VERY long time to recover anything from. Out of the first 25% I was only able to recover 12 files. Should have been more like 4,000.
So this is gonna put a dent in some product turnaround times and development.