[frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubunto
- From: chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:07:41 -0500
Well there sure is a very good alternative but it will cost you a whole
bunch of money, it is a SSD (Solid State Drive) they are much smaller in
capacity, faster, and last damn near forever! But look at spending a
couple hundred dollars on them!!
Chuq
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 11:01 -0800, john jones wrote:
> well i did a test it says theres 232 bad sectors,i havent had it that
> long so in short its like the old Black Sabbath Paroinid LP 33rpm
> record that i play over and over and over that eventually gets old
> warped and scratched,really they need to make a HD that is flawless
> and guarenteed for life,so ill prob be on the market for a new HD,im
> not sure how to reformat Ubunto, is really good at deban-ing,i guess
> ill learn......that or ill toss it through chuqs shop window like the
> lady in the discount tire commercial, haha just kidding it is startin
> to move a little faster doesnt know how windows acts since the upgrade
> havent used windows in days,,,thanks guys:)
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From: chuq <chuq00@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: frgeek-michiana@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 1:20:38 PM
> Subject: [frgeek-michiana] Re: Ubunto
>
> I dont know about that because Ubuntu 9.10 tends to say that a lot, I
> mean I have 2 fairly new drives installed and Ubuntu 9.10 reported
> that
> same message about both of them.. and that was in 1 system. In another
> I
> had it tell me that on the HD in there as well.. So I do not know if
> it
> really is the HD's or if it is being overtly picky.
> We shall see later on once I run my HD utilities on it and see what it
> says!
> more to report on that later.. stay tuned!
>
> hehe
> Chuq
>
> On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 13:01 -0500, Richard Zimmerman wrote:
> > Your emails contains your answer...
> >
> > <quote>
> >
> > only now its telling me that i have bad sectors in my drive and its
> no
> > longer fast and efficient and is starting to really suck
> >
> > </quote>
> >
> > Simply put, you have a hard drive failing. If Ubuntu is taking the
> time
> > to tell you, it's already dead.
> >
> > Here's what's happening.
> >
> > As the drive spins and the heads are reading/writing information,
> at
> > some point the metallic material (the shinny stuff on the platter)
> will
> > lose it's "organization" on the platter. This is perfectly normal
> and
> > happens to all drives over time (time as in thousands of hours). As
> the
> > drive ages and is reformatted, the metallic material is reorganized
> and
> > can store your data again.
> >
> > At some point however, the metallic material will lose it's ability
> to
> > "organize" and and then it can no longer store your data.
> >
> > So as the heads flies above the platter and it starts hitting these
> > areas that no longer can store the data, the computer 'stops or
> stalls'
> > while the hard drive keeps trying to read the data from the bad
> spot. If
> > it CAN get the data reliably, it moves it to a good place and
> everything
> > is fine. Sometimes, the area fails so quickly that the drive can
> not
> > recover the data and basically sit there 'forever' trying to read
> the
> > bad spot.
> >
> > Bottom line is, your computer will crawl if not out right crash and
> quit
> > working.
> >
> > 1) You can retry reformatting the hard drive and reinstall
> everything.
> > 2) dban the hard drive, format and reinstall everything - sometimes
> it
> > just needs a good kick in the butt
> > 3) Most often, replace the drive IT IS FAILING
> >
> > I've got a drive in an XP machine at home that was dead as a door
> nail.
> > Dban and reformatted it, has been running fine for two years now.
> There
> > is no 'science' or predictability as to when a drive will fail.
> > Sometimes, it just happens.
> >
> > Richard
> >
> >
> > john jones wrote:
> > > Recently ive been toying with Ubunto and found it to be a nice
> > > efficient fast app,well today it said something about about
> upgrading
> > > to 9.10 version so I did after 35min it finally finished
> upgrading,I
> > > tried to log back in and it wouldnt let me in. After a second time
> of
> > > logging it let me in,wasnt no different then the other version I
> had
> > > ,only now its telling me that i have bad sectors in my drive and
> its
> > > no longer fast and efficient and is starting to really suck,can
> > > somebody explain to me in elementary terms whats going wrong and
> what
> > > i can do to fix it to be fast and efficient the way it used to
> be????
> >
>
>
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