I love you Toshiba, and yes I’m kidding
February 28, 2007 //
I’m back in play in the virtual world after a 24 hour hiatus. My MacBook Pro’s HDD failed catastrophically. It took me about 6 hours to procure a new (and larger) disk, operate on the machine and restore status quo ante. (Lorem ipsum, quid pro quo, et cetera.)
Fortunately all I lost in the way of data were a few useless files. So far as I’m aware…
I was unpleasantly surprised to find out that the MacBook Pro’s original disk was an 80G Tosh. It joins my bad device drawer and is parked just next to another 2.5 inch Toshiba disk. Indeed, my first Mac, a PowerBook, had had a 60G Toshiba HDD and it too had failed unannounced and with much loss of data.
Must be coincidence. Still, I’m not buying any Tosh disks anytime soon.
tayfur said...
Sounds like someone’s got a 200GB SATA HDD in his laptop now. Can you put 2 HDDs in that monster and set a RAID0 system or something?
March 1st, 2007
Mehmet said...
Unfortunately it’s 120. Because there was 100 bux difference between 120 and 160. Raid0. What’s it? Insecticide? Does it kill rats? Does it sterilize dead rats?
March 2nd, 2007
tayfur said...
remember shelltox? the oil-drilling-leftover toxic stuff royal dutch shell people used to stuff in cans and sell as insecticide? well raid0 is a little better than that.
March 2nd, 2007