So what has been announcing itself over the last year finally happened...
Fatal Hard Drive Crash.
My old Machine is just too hot (meaning it's heating like a mofo). I have a fan to blow air on it now for the last year. I put it on 2 now. More cooling, but also more noise.
Still saving up for a new machine, so Little steaming laptop has to keep heating my winter days... and probably summer days, too. Hope the GPU does not die next.
I bought a new hard drive today. There goes another 140 Euros... :P
The bad news:
I lost all the pictures I made last week and this week... about 400.
1 and 1/2 weeks for nothing. :P
The Good News:
I made backups of my development folder just yesterday, so at least I was able to recover my project without loss.
I said it once, I said it again:
ALWAYS BACKUP YOUR IMPORTANT FILES! NOT ONCE BUT AT LEAST TWICE!
Well... It's back to square one now I guess.
Hope you had a better day than I had.
Sorry you had a rough day. Know the fans believe in you.
ReplyDeleteYou could get a relatively inexpensive 8TB external My Book Duo. It would be an easy way to backup your files. If you wanted to backup twice you could get a couple xD. Good luck with restoring what you lost and recreating what you have to.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I use a box fan to blow into the open side of my case since with the higher end GPU's you produce too much heat for a simple air cooling system. The other issue you would run into with most cases is that unless you're setup in a clean environment with a clean source of heating you are going to fill up with dust inside the case. That means you have to tear down and frequently clean your computer out.