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Dying Hard Drive or PSU
From: ANT_THOMAS
11 Jan 2014 14:13
To: cynicoid
CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)
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I'll try the different rail idea but I think this gives me a good excuse to get another bigger hard drive.
From: ANT_THOMAS
11 Jan 2014 20:33
To: ALL
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Well it's gone again and I can't be bothered going into the attic to power cycle.
Is there a manufacturer of choice these days? Or is the standard pretty similar these days? I assume my drives spindown since they're in a windows server so do I even need a NAS designed drive?
All my drives are Seagate and this is first possible failure I've had. Drive is about 6 years old and definitely out of Seagate warranty.
Seen a Toshiba drive that seems the best £/TB currently.
Also, do people still like ebuyer? I probably stupidly started reading comments on HUKD and there's a lot of negative feelings towards them at the moment. Mainly due to their return policy.
From: milko
11 Jan 2014 23:19
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I've never had to return anything to them I don't think, but I bought something off them for the first time in years the other day and it was all good, free next day delivery too.
From: ANT_THOMAS
12 Jan 2014 00:14
To: milko
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My only issue in the past (or annoyance I guess) is that the free saver delivery was always next day delivery but dispatched about 5 days after you order. Didn't make sense apart from them trying to encourage/force people onto more expensive options.
From: koswix
12 Jan 2014 01:06
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I remember having a right ball ache returning stuff to them about 10 years ago or more. Beyond that, can't really help.
From: Drew (X3N0PH0N)
12 Jan 2014 19:23
To: ANT_THOMAS
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I always tend to buy from them and I've not had any issues. Had to return my Nexus 7 and that all went fine too, not returned anything else. They're not as good as they used to be on price, but they're not bad.
From: ANT_THOMAS
12 Jan 2014 20:02
To: ALL
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Same all round for me. I've generally bought from there or Scan, since I can actually go to the Scan shop/warehouse and buy it there and then. Never had any issues with eBuyer either, I guess it could well be a very vocal minority.
From: koswix
13 Jan 2014 00:09
To: ANT_THOMAS
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Their merry Xmas photo was quite good - with the leader board on the wall in the background showing which member of staff had successfully rejected the most returns. They quickly removed that from their Facebook page.
From: ANT_THOMAS
13 Jan 2014 16:30
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Just bought a 3TB Seagate external drive that had a drive inside that (I think) costs about £10 more on its own. Put the 3TB in the server and maybe going to have the 1TB as some sort of spare external drive. Probably not an amazing idea as a backup drive if it's not reliable.
Is hard drives overheating a big issue? Because the 1TB was in the middle of a set of 5 hard drives.
From: ANT_THOMAS
13 Jan 2014 16:40
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Should I spread the bottom 5 hard drives out a bit better?