CougTek
Hairy Aussie
A Western Digital drive (WD400JB) was sitting in my previous main system. Previous, yep... Because of FAH, I overclocked it a little too high, I suppose, until four days ago when it started to freeze every now and then. I then tried to lower the frequency of the CPU, but apparently, the processor unit had greatly deteriorate lately and the instability problems weren't for nothing. I tried to enter the BIOS upon reboot, but it froze even there. I then reset the CMOS, but even then, the computer didn't stay usable long enough to go into the BIOS and put the CPU frequency to its default setting. I played like that with the annoying box for half an hour until, well, you know me...
I smashed the cover, pulled all the wires I could grab without any kind of care, brought the box outdoor in the snow behind my car, opened the trunk, grab my axe and joyfully smashed the blade five or six times through the chassis. Then, out of habit, I through it in the trunk of my car like I do all the times I pass someo...something to the axe. The box sat there for three days, with temperature dropping to below -20C every night. Then yesterday, I decided to check what happened to the hard drive since I found I was missing a few files on it to make the replacing system usable (like motherboard drivers to make the onboard LAN work and which I've lost the CD).
Although I hit the drive cage directly with the blade of my beloved tool, the drive wasn't too damaged. Just a little scar on the side. I think the cage bent and the drive twisted instead of eating the blade right on the side. The cover was also a bit bumped, but it wasn't so much as to declare the drive a complete lost on sight. I let the drive de-freeze for several hours and then put it inside my other, yet-to-piss-me computer. Oh surprise, it's working just fine!
Sure, I've quickly cut and pasted all my important files on another hard drive (I have a backup, but since I've moved recently, it's sitting into an unidentified box and I'm not in the mood to search for it) and I won't be saving anything dear to my hear on it, but the freaking drive survived both an axe blow and three freezing nights outdoor. Wow.
Who said Western Digital drives were unreliable?
I smashed the cover, pulled all the wires I could grab without any kind of care, brought the box outdoor in the snow behind my car, opened the trunk, grab my axe and joyfully smashed the blade five or six times through the chassis. Then, out of habit, I through it in the trunk of my car like I do all the times I pass someo...something to the axe. The box sat there for three days, with temperature dropping to below -20C every night. Then yesterday, I decided to check what happened to the hard drive since I found I was missing a few files on it to make the replacing system usable (like motherboard drivers to make the onboard LAN work and which I've lost the CD).
Although I hit the drive cage directly with the blade of my beloved tool, the drive wasn't too damaged. Just a little scar on the side. I think the cage bent and the drive twisted instead of eating the blade right on the side. The cover was also a bit bumped, but it wasn't so much as to declare the drive a complete lost on sight. I let the drive de-freeze for several hours and then put it inside my other, yet-to-piss-me computer. Oh surprise, it's working just fine!
Sure, I've quickly cut and pasted all my important files on another hard drive (I have a backup, but since I've moved recently, it's sitting into an unidentified box and I'm not in the mood to search for it) and I won't be saving anything dear to my hear on it, but the freaking drive survived both an axe blow and three freezing nights outdoor. Wow.
Who said Western Digital drives were unreliable?
