Random Technical Question about External Hard Drives

[RedCherry]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

I took FORTRAN and COBOL.

So did I, and PASCAL and BASIC, back before Virtual Basic, lol. And my first program I wrote in college was for a keypunch device, and the computers in the lab were PDP-1170s with no screens.

Do I remember any of them? hell no, lol. But I had how to read programs drilled into me, so I can look at PHP and others and figure out what they are doing and hack them.

Back on topic, I had two different external drives that both failed, so I'm not a big fan of them. But that was about 4 years ago, so I'm figuring the technology is a lot better. Then again, I fail a C drive about once a year, so it might be just me.

[boobookitty]

Originally Posted by RedCherry

So did I, and PASCAL and BASIC, back before Virtual Basic, lol. And my first program I wrote in college was for a keypunch device, and the computers in the lab were PDP-1170s with no screens.

Do I remember any of them? hell no, lol. But I had how to read programs drilled into me, so I can look at PHP and others and figure out what they are doing and hack them.

Back on topic, I had two different external drives that both failed, so I'm not a big fan of them. But that was about 4 years ago, so I'm figuring the technology is a lot better. Then again, I fail a C drive about once a year, so it might be just me.

Yeah I hear ya.. I took calculus, matrices, and differential equations my first two years of college. I couldn't integrate an equation now if you put a gun to my head lol...
As far as the C drives - woah..
The laptop I am on atm has been rode hard and put up wet for the last 3 years - I use it 10 to 14 hours a day most days and it's still limping along. I do have a new laptop on order, with Vista OS but it does have 4 gb RAM so I am looking forward to that