trakers
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OK, what would happen if I came in, took out the hard drive(s) from you main design and/or production computers and beat them flat with a hammer?
The reason I ask is this evening when I plugged in my main design/production machine it flashed like a camera and made some “Pzzzzzt - poof -sssssssss” sounds and stunk up the room, big time. The power supply had ate it own tail. Now this supply is a very nice Enermax, but is going on 7 years old, so I’ve got my $80 worth. (Just for reference the machine is updated bi-yearly, new MB, more RAM, HD upgrade, etc. The only old parts are the case and power supply)
I replaced the supply with a new one I had here (yeah I know, what a geek) and everything is AOK.
The reason I asked the question is that I am a paranoid, backup freak. Redundant hard drives, auto backup program, external hard drives, thumb drives, and DVD-RW’s. I use them all and I use them often but I find most people either don’t have a way to consistently backup or do and just don’t do it. Almost invertiably it takes someone losing everything to realize the importance of backups.
So, backup your data fellas. Back it up often and always think about what happens if your machine would die 5 minutes from now.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled program basking in the fact that maybe, just maybe I'll save one person from losing data.
The reason I ask is this evening when I plugged in my main design/production machine it flashed like a camera and made some “Pzzzzzt - poof -sssssssss” sounds and stunk up the room, big time. The power supply had ate it own tail. Now this supply is a very nice Enermax, but is going on 7 years old, so I’ve got my $80 worth. (Just for reference the machine is updated bi-yearly, new MB, more RAM, HD upgrade, etc. The only old parts are the case and power supply)
I replaced the supply with a new one I had here (yeah I know, what a geek) and everything is AOK.
The reason I asked the question is that I am a paranoid, backup freak. Redundant hard drives, auto backup program, external hard drives, thumb drives, and DVD-RW’s. I use them all and I use them often but I find most people either don’t have a way to consistently backup or do and just don’t do it. Almost invertiably it takes someone losing everything to realize the importance of backups.
So, backup your data fellas. Back it up often and always think about what happens if your machine would die 5 minutes from now.
I now return you to your regularly scheduled program basking in the fact that maybe, just maybe I'll save one person from losing data.
