PC is down.
The 80G Seagate hard drive died this morning. Tried my best to boot it up, or read it by mac, still failed. It is now completely unreadable.I haven’t done the backup. Shit.
Planning how should I revive my PC revive a working environment. So far in my mind:
- The 5-year-old PC is still working. No idea how long it will probably serve for.
- It is very noisy.
- I need a window-based system to help my development. Storage can be real small (i.e. ~ 40GB), but better in higher speed.
- I need a permanent machine to be hosted at home to handle the dirty tasks.
Solutions?
Backup backup backup~~~ It really become a problem because the master storage is huge in size…..
What you lost this time? Any data that can’t be rebuilt?
For your PC question.
June 22nd, 2008 at 1:19 pm1. Better check the cap of the mainboard, and power supply first. May give hints.
2. Just this reason can make it disappear, for me.
3. VM solution can’t help?
4. Permanent machine ~ like come from some anime. Can those dirty work done with NAS?
1) A well-maintained PC’s live time can be as long as 10 years.. (my first PC is still working, but the performance sucks)
2) Agree with Jeffery, this is enough to sentence the PC to death. If you really wanna get rid of the noise, try to replace all the fans inside the PC. This usually help
3) VM is a perfect solution. There is a free open source VM. I think IE is the only reason that you need a window-based dev env. Go for VM!!
4) Why not try the EC2 hosting? If you want to keep the cost low, why not reuse the mac-mini that you bought for your mum??
June 24th, 2008 at 11:09 am3. The free VM is http://www.virtualbox.org/. I try and it works.
June 26th, 2008 at 12:31 pm4. haahahah. I suggested use that for “dirty work” too..haha. Your mother will not know those background dirty thing. And when the police come, you can said you know nothing. haha