Well, everything is going kaput

"DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever" (eg6)
01/27/2020 at 17:35 • Filed to: None

Well my seatbelt latch completely disassembled itself today. The pins got absorbed by the black hole underneath the seat, and I somehow managed to get a pretty good cut trying to recover one of them.

On top of that, last night I finished setting up my home server, only for the brand new harddrive to begin to fail hours later (As of now, I’ve recovered everything important), although Windows did some weird stuff with it.

Hopefully whatever spiritual being I’ve angered is done fucking my shit.

DISCUSSION (8)

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
01/27/2020 at 17:55

What brand hard drive?

DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
01/27/2020 at 17:57

Toshiba 2.5", I’ve never had a problem with them in the past, so I was quite surprised.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
01/27/2020 at 18:12

I stay the heck away from Toshiba. I do computer work on the side and all the ones I see/have to sort out that have failed are almost always Toshiba from experience...

I stick religiously to Western Digital as my personal standard, Seagate is also good. For SSDs, I only go Samsung EVO.

NKato > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
01/27/2020 at 18:22

MY MAN.

I used WD for a decade before migrating to Samsung for my first SSD.

facw > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
01/27/2020 at 18:58

I’ve had terrible luck with Seagate. I wouldn’t use a spinning disc drive for anything non-redundant though, so reliability is less of big deal (though obviously I’d still rather not pay to replace the things). For SSDs, I currently use Samsung and Sandisk (in spinning era, I liked Samsung’s drives there as well, but they were sold to Seagate IIRC ).

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > NKato
01/27/2020 at 19:39

I have an 80GB WD drive I bought new in 2004 for my first computer (the family got an IBM Aptiva in 1996 that we had for years, but this was MY own personal first computer that I built for myself).

I used it on that machine (AMD Athlon XP 1500+ single-core 1.8Ghz CPU, 2GB RAM, Sapphire Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB video card) for years and let the computer run 24/7. It was only off for power outages.

When I upgraded to my then-newly built Intel Core 2 Duo system (Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz, Radeon HD3850 1GB video card, 6GB RAM) , I used that same 80GB hard drive as my OS drive and had a separate ‘Data’ drive. I eventually replaced the 80GB with a 160GB SATA drive, but used that 80GB in a few spare ‘tinkering’ PCs (mostly playing around with and learning Linux) for a few years.

I STILL have that drive. It has something like literally 13 YEARS of powered-on time, according to S.M.A.R.T. Diagnostics, and it still works perfectly and shows not ONE re-allocated sector, etc. It’s pretty useless these days and has lived in a ‘spares’ drawer for a few years now, but I sortof don’t want to get rid of it because of how much of a trooper it’s been and how ridiculously durable it is !

WD are always my go-to for mechanical drives, bar none, as a result. I’ll take Seagate in a pinch, but my current Win10 ‘gaming/high end’ desktop, my ‘DD’ HP laptop and my Media Center PC (the above-mentioned Intel Core 2 Duo system) all run WD drives (one is the ‘Data’ drive on my Win10 desktop - it has a Samsung EVO 850 for it’s OS drive).

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > facw
01/27/2020 at 19:42

All the mechanical drives in my own PCs have been Western Digital. I had an HGST drive in my laptop for awhile and that worked fine...not sure who HGST was sold to, but I know they aren’t a separate company anymore.

I know Toshiba and Hitachi drives are the ones I see failed the most. I’ve never had a mechanical drive in one of my own PCs die or fail in any way ever, so I still have a perception that they are more reliable than SSDs...at least that is the perception in my head, it’s probably untrue.

RacinBob > DC3 LS, Fuck Hyundai, now and forever
01/27/2020 at 19:43

Call the dealer and see if it is covered under warranty. Manufacturers cover seatbelts (and airbags) almost 15 years or so..... It gives them a black eye when people get killed because of defective safety gear.....