Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-28 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 07:34:21 Feb 28, Matt wrote: > > I am not an authority on the subject at all but... > > A non-tech solution might be to buy a cheap notebook and use that as your > workstation and/or backup device. > If power fails or drops the battery will automatically take over and you > should not exper

Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-28 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hello, > I also have a brand new digital multimeter which shows voltages varying > between 150 V and 250 V. nice. ;) > The SMPS in the PC is not able to provide the power that these higher > capacity disk's stepper motors demand. The last stepper motor got lost with my 40MB disk, everything in th

Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-27 Thread Matt
Girish Venkatachalam schreef: "wd0 lost interrupt. fsbn blah blah blah 234023409-234234.." You get it? The SMPS in the PC is not able to provide the power that these higher capacity disk's stepper motors demand. It never occurred to me so far that disk failures were a natural consequence of my

Re: Power fluctuation and hard disk crashes

2008-02-27 Thread ropers
This is a totally non-technical solution, but reading what you wrote I immediately thought: How much of these 56 GB of data is changing? Is the bulk of this data stuff that you *need* to constantly access for the next couple of weeks? If not, then wouldn't it be much safer to just take one of the