18 Oct
2004
18 Oct
'04
11:28
The Friday 2004-10-15 at 11:45 +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
It stayed in the top shelve in my closet, from where I've dropped it countless times - on a concrete floor. I still have that drive too - working like day one. I used to use it to backup my mail folders, until they became to big...
That's probably because the heads are parked when off, so the surface is safe. I once inadvertently broke a HD by pounding my fist on the table (probably win 3.11 had crashed for the umpteen time that day), and the HD started having read problems right away. Head crash. Barely had time to copy over to another disk. I had tape backups, also. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson