[mythtv-users] Help with a semi-busted hard drive (with all my recordings)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sun, Feb 05, 2006 at 01:17:20PM -0500, mikepolniak wrote:
> > > > Pictures detailing the damage are at
> > > > http://robotics.caltech.edu/~klk/drive/
> > >
> > > Understand this: you're buying a new drive anyway.  There's noother
> > > practical alternative.
> 
> I just bought this _exact_ drive today at BestBuy for $79.00 (no rebates
> involved either). This might be your best shot.

Not necessarily: consumer drive logic boards are revved *much* more
frequently than, say, industrial-strength SCSI drives.

Seagate *may* be better about this than, say, Maxtor, but I wouldn't be
sure.

Cheers,
-- jra
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