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Zazula · 11-24-2006, 01:37 PM

Just three months after its warranty expired, my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA hard disk (6Y160M0) - which, by the way, was hosting my system and programs partitions - decided it had served me enough and committed suicide...

In an inornate rite, it resisted booting in any mode, and when Recovery Console was brought to its rescue, it politely produced a 0x00000024 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM stop error. It was promptly rushed into the Maxtor PowerMax 4.23 Emergency Room, where it was diagnosed as succumbing to the inevitable with a de6d6979 code. At the ER, its twin brother HDD - which, contrariwise, was used for storing various useless rubbish - was blooming with health, adding a tone of merry irony to those, in all other respects, gloomy moments...

So, right now a contraption called Knoppix is being downloaded in order to duly extract its innards, since its last wish was to be a transplant donor for the advancement of Medicine (namely, to prevent my going mental). The place my leaving friend has been calling home all these years, a hospitable Gigabyte 8KNXP, will look so empty without it...

As a result of this distressing development, I am now facing the tough albeit essential need to decide on its replacement. Please help me with your suggestions; I wish to spend as little as possible for as big-storage-capable of a device as possible - and it doesn't need to be a SATA one. Moreover, please refrain from using Black Friday pricings, because my current state will not allow me to overcome the generated envy - and the Forum will be have one Manager less.

11-24-2006, 01:37 PM	#1 (permalink)
Zazula Manager Emeritus, I'm blond, James Blond Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Athens, Greece Posts: 7,667 OS: Win XP Pro SP2	Sob, sob... my hard disk failed... now I'm open to suggestions Just three months after its warranty expired, my Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 9 SATA hard disk (6Y160M0) - which, by the way, was hosting my system and programs partitions - decided it had served me enough and committed suicide... In an inornate rite, it resisted booting in any mode, and when Recovery Console was brought to its rescue, it politely produced a 0x00000024 NTFS_FILE_SYSTEM stop error. It was promptly rushed into the Maxtor PowerMax 4.23 Emergency Room, where it was diagnosed as succumbing to the inevitable with a de6d6979 code. At the ER, its twin brother HDD - which, contrariwise, was used for storing various useless rubbish - was blooming with health, adding a tone of merry irony to those, in all other respects, gloomy moments... So, right now a contraption called Knoppix is being downloaded in order to duly extract its innards, since its last wish was to be a transplant donor for the advancement of Medicine (namely, to prevent my going mental). The place my leaving friend has been calling home all these years, a hospitable Gigabyte 8KNXP, will look so empty without it... As a result of this distressing development, I am now facing the tough albeit essential need to decide on its replacement. Please help me with your suggestions; I wish to spend as little as possible for as big-storage-capable of a device as possible - and it doesn't need to be a SATA one. Moreover, please refrain from using Black Friday pricings, because my current state will not allow me to overcome the generated envy - and the Forum will be have one Manager less. __________________ "Time is the wisest because it discovers everything" Thales of Miletus (ca.624BC-ca.546BC) "Everything flows, nothing stands still." Heraclitus of Ephesus (ca.535BC-475BC) "One thing I know, that I know nothing" Socrates of Athens (ca.470BC–399BC)