I'll 2nd this notion! Nothing like a 20lb sledge vs harddrive battle. I'm sure you can figure out the outcome... + it's good for stress relief since the drive is responsible for the headache it probably gave you before the battle was declared.
David McD On Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:09:49 -0500, Phillip Rhodes wrote: > Personally, I've had enough hassles with failed hard-drives lately, that > my suggestion is to buy a new drive at the first sign of possible > failure, and beat the old one to pieces with a sledge-hammer (after > copying the data off!) to make sure it doesn't get re-used by mistake. > > Unless money is really tight, it seems to me that hard-drives > are cheap enough these days that it doesn't make sense to risk > playing around with a suspect drive. > > TTYL, > > Phil -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
