Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2002 10:37:56 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please?
At 06:20 PM 2/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Sat, 02 Mar 2002 18:12:21 -0800 >From: "Tom Stangl, VFAQman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Best VFM drive for my 50CT please? > >Pres, > >Chill out. Yours blew up, but there are a TON of people on this list that have >upgraded to 9.5mm drives without any problem whatsoever. > >You trying to make it sound like it happens to the majority? THAT'S spreading >misinformation. Tom, Chill out mate! :-) ... Pres is just a responsible, concerned list member spreading his experiences ... we should appreciate all points of view and all possibilities :-) After all, millions of car trips are made per day, a minute percentage involve a crash yet the government still makes seatbelts compulsory ... The bottom line I guess is be as careful as you can and use whats practically available. 8.5mm hard drives are almost impossible to get nowadays ... since the main cause of failure (after careless mechanical fitting or ripping the mobo apart during removal) is pressure on the motherboard, as long as the hard drive is a loose slide fit (which is possible to achieve by removing the spacers AND the black plastic sheet) then there is no way in the world pressure can cause a problem. Which is not to say of course that Pres is wrong ... motherboards do die, its possible for pressure to be placed on the mobo due to case thats warped ever so slightly, a forgotten spacer, a wrinkled plastic shield, a manufacturer defect, excessively hard typing (yup I've done a mobo that way), a mistake during case disassembly, a slip during hard drive insertion or a glob of adhesive that happens to find its way to the wrong place ... remember, most of this is luck, some of us get luckier than others. Don't even get me started on Murphy's Law. - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
