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Re: MAME corrupt roms????
12/18/11 04:35 AM
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My $0 hard-waste-saved Seagate 60GB drive is still going strong here, I use it to dump PS2 DVDs, so it gets a lot of heavy use out of it. I've had this drive since 2008. Also, my Acer OEM Seagate 40GB (2005) is still my C: drive with the original OS on it.
The most notable survivor I've had has been a seized 1998 8GB Quantum drive, which I found in early 2010. The PC it came in survived being thrown around side streets by random idiots and dumped in a garden near a train subway! When I took it home, the only damage (aside from the case which was bent around 20 degrees from the bottom) was a blown power supply, of which I noted it was set to 115V when I found it.
After swapping the power supply and running the PC board on the table, when I first plugged in the drive, it made a few noises but wouldn't spin up (seized spindle). On the second attempt, the drive actually spun up by itself (I have an audio recording of this, making a humming/groaning noise), but couldn't get full rotational speed by the time the PC's POST came up, so it wasn't detected. On the third attempt, the drive started perfectly and loaded its old Windows 98 as if nothing had happened.
I formatted it straight away and installed XP on it, and put it in my hard-waste-find 3GHz Pentium 4 and it still runs perfectly today, easily capable of browsing the net, watching YouTube videos and viewing Google maps (the original late-Pentium 1 ATX system was retired soon after I originally tested it - no problems with it, cards or the CD drive either, despite the machine being thrown around the road/subway by idiot kids!).
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