[netburnr]

Not sure if the censor got the title or not, but pretty much I'm kinda disappointed right now...

Last night I was laying in bed watching TV on the laptop...long story short I needed to replace season 1 from my torrent drive to my media drive.

Well it wasn't showing up as a network share, so I decided I'd wait till today to figure out why.

So I came home, and sure enough the Western Digital MyBook 1TB drive I have was in its 'sleep/"der der der"' mode. Ok, it done that no big deal. Pull the power, power back up.

Ok, its now showing coolness. Ok, lets replace this low quality season 1 with the new high res version.

Copy, copy copy, 5 minutes remaining, copy copy copy copy copy, still 5 minutes wtf its been 10.

Maybe I need to restart, ok lets shut down the apps that are open... WTF do you mean not responding, *random key bashing here*

So now I sit here, waiting through the longest check disk in the history of computers, phase 4, 1 bar of many many bars in the progress area.....

I'm gonna be royally pissed if this RAID1 array is some how not really as good of a "safe" backup plan as I expected. Hopefully if for some reason 1 of the drives has failed I can pull it out and get the data off...

Better yet, hopefully the scan disk will complete some time this year, tell me everything is roses and I won't have to buy yet more hard drives....

On top of all that, now I can't play video games cause I'm busy doing this checkdisk....

I need a hug

[Jump]

There there little lolcat child, watching tv on your lap in bed is not a good habit anyway. Have a cookie.

[netburnr]

No no, not on my lap, laptop besides me, keeping a macbook pro on your lap while its charging would fry what little sperm I have left.

Hmmm, perhaps I should, last thing I want is a bunch little "me"s running around

edit: up to 3 boxes now

[Jump]

If you use a mac you have no sperm.

[netburnr]

Don't make me prove it.

[Ambrosius]

Mac? lol.

[netburnr]

Well reboot then checkdisk and its now acting fine....

Attempting to copy files now...

[netburnr]

Great, its not letting my copy to the drive, guess its FUBARed....time to call WD and see what they have to say.... /frustration

[Hornet]

/hug

[netburnr]

Originally Posted by Hornet

/hug

Thanks mang, I needed that.

So I'm at working using Remote Desktop to work on my computer at home, all the applications including explorer are locking up so I'm trying a reboot, 30 minutes later and about 10 "End Now" windows and I'm now at the Blue windows is saving your settings screen, god I hope this thing reboots instead of hangs since I can't get to the power button.

Called WD, they said to download their diag software and try that. He said worse case if it keeps up with this that I need to pull both drives, try them one at a time in my computer and figure out which failed... So luckily I can pull the data from one of the drives at least (assuming both didnt crater at the same time which would be really bad luck)

Also said I can put bigger drives in it if I want, so I might just go pick up to 1TB drives so I can 1tb redundant storage.

God I don't have money for thsi crap right now....

[netburnr]

Originally Posted by netburnr

So I'm at working using Remote Desktop to work on my computer at home, all the applications including explorer are locking up so I'm trying a reboot, 30 minutes later and about 10 "End Now" windows and I'm now at the Blue windows is saving your settings screen, god I hope this thing reboots instead of hangs since I can't get to the power button.

After about half an hour it finally restarted. RDCed back in, installed WD software, tried to launch it, discoed from RDC and now it won't let me back in, god I hate windows and its inability to handle failed drives.

Guess I'll have to wait till I get home....

[Jump]

Oh yeah, we all know that failed drives work in every other operating system. pfffft


They have that little usb thing now that you can plug any hd in to get data off of. I can't remember what it's called but HardOCP did a good review on it.