I'm going to be on my third Western Digital Raptor 1500 HDD inside the Shuttle XPC. This time it was a S.M.A.R.T. disc failure I checked for in a not-so-routine disc scan, me being desperate to figure out why the puter was so sluggish booting.
Is it the heat? Runs hot, but doesn't seem abnormally so. Well, third time is the charm. And by now, I have rsync backups to the portable drive complete.
I was disappointed to have to reinstall my environment and my OS, but excited that I caught it in time, and excited to be getting my RMA from the fine folks at Western Digital. Nothing but a good customer experience so far.
I was disappointed to have to reinstall my environment and my OS, but excited that I caught it in time, and excited to be getting my RMA from the fine folks at Western Digital. Nothing but a good customer experience so far.
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