On 12/25/2013 06:16 AM, Stormin Mormon wrote:
On 12/24/2013 8:39 PM, philo wrote:


Only once have I gotten on my bench a standard HD that went into instant
failure mode.

I lucked out and found an SMT cap. with a cracked solder joint and
repaired it.

The next day I gave the owner of the machine a very severe lecture on
making backups!

I got some malware, one time. Wiped out my HD, and
two external HD. That was seriously expensive.



Sheesh I have no idea how it could have gotten that bad...


I switched to Linux as my full time OS 5 years ago to lessen the chance
of something like that happening.