Silver Case

After I replaced my failing Intel-based PC with an iMac, I called up a PC Repair guy, had him haul away the PC for diagnosis and possible repair.

He told me today that the two Western Digital harddrives had basically died and were slowly corrupting the filesystem.

I didn’t think these were cheap drives (I bought them 22months ago) but he hypothesized that leaving my pc on all the time in a case with such minimal air flow aged them very quickly.  Yuk.

I’ll see if I can get the drives replaced under warranty (I have the cards around in a folder here) and reinstall the pc.  “I” meaning HIM.

It does concern me a bit that heat is aging component so fast, as I have my infrant NAS sitting on all the time.  I would prefer not to lose the data on that, and in my experience, these drives seem to die simultaneously, not serially, allowing the parity raid to recover stuff.

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