-=PCTechTalk=- Re: HD Companies
- From: "Barnstoneworth" <barneystorm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2003 13:29:20 +0100
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From: "~OoO~" <SirTroth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Nope... no magnet. First few years I had all my systems in a dedicated
room, and definitely not much in there that could damage magnetic media.
> Although, now, due to the baby, that room is no longer a computer room.
And, the all my systems are cluttered up in my living room. Only thing next
to it is my 40-inch tube TV, and even that is at least 6 feet away.
>
> I think it probably has more to do with the much handling I do on the hard
drives. I do a lot of switching drives from one system to the other, and
tend to pull the towers out from there stationary spot to work on 'em. So,
maybe that's the blame there.
>
> I still find it odd that my drives would go bad so often. Even with
magnetic interference, I would just lose data... all that would be fixed
after I format the drive. In my case, the physical drive has gone bad.
I wouldn't have thought so..assuming you use 'safe handling' practise when
doing it, I don't really see how simply handling drives would cause any
damage.
Maybe they just don't like you??:-))
Andy
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