Hard Drive Failure

samysam · Post by **samysam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:45 am

AndyCR wrote:Well, I had a hard drive failure last night. It wiped out about 100GB of data on several partitions. Thank God that by a miracle, RF2 was unaffected. RF2 uses version control, so I would only have lost about 2 weeks worth of work, but that's still more than I want to lose.

I guess I should back up from now on...

100G DAMNNNNNN BOY THATS ALOT

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:46 am

Thanks!

Sure. It's an HP Pavillion DV9000T. 17" glossy screen, 1440x900, about 3 hours battery life, 7-8 pounds, about 1.6" thick, 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce Go 7600, 120GB hard drive, and quite possibly the most beautiful laptop ever created. Runs Vista, which will be useful for testing RF2 on the newest version of Windows even though installing Linux will be one of the first things I do with it.

I can't wait to get it!

Yeah, it was about 6 years worth of stuff.

samysam · Post by **samysam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:49 am

AndyCR wrote:Thanks!

Sure. It's an HP Pavillion DV9000T. 17" glossy screen, 1440x900, about 3 hours battery life, 7-8 pounds, about 1.6" thick, 2Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo, GeForce Go 7600, 120GB hard drive, and quite possibly the most beautiful laptop ever created.

I can't wait to get it!

Yeah, it was about 6 years worth of stuff.

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I WANT IT how much was all that 9If you dont mind me asking)

scott · Post by **scott** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:50 am

OOOOO nice, one step up from mine, ur gona cick ass, i have not found a game i cant play at full specs yet

so well yours gona have enough power to play anygame and predict the future of the universe! lol

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:51 am

Thanks! Should be useful for testing RF2 games - at least a lot more than my 1.3Ghz Celeron M/Intel GMA850 laptop.

It was actually only about $1,100 at Office Depot - they have a sale on them that ends today, though they might be out of stock by now.

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/13958.jpg

samysam · Post by **samysam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:52 am

i wish i was old enuf to get a job and buy a 10K computer

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:55 am

About half is actually being paid by my family for my birthday, which I am very, very grateful for!

samysam · Post by **samysam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:56 am

AndyCR wrote:Thanks! Should be useful for testing RF2 games - at least a lot more than my 1.3Ghz Celeron M/Intel GMA850 laptop.

It was actually only about $1,100 at Office Depot - they have a sale on them that ends today, though they might be out of stock by now.

http://www.notebookreview.com/assets/13958.jpg

that note book looks prety good but i hear that lap tops hard drive speed isnt too good is that true ?

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:58 am

It is, with most. The faster the hard drive is, the more power consumption occurs, and the hard drive is one of the most power-hungry components in a laptop (in desktops the other components tend to be more power-hungry, but they are able to minimize the power consumption of those components in ways they can't in hard drives). In this case, it's hard drive is 5400RPM instead of the desktop standard 7200, but in most cases it doesn't matter terribly much in anything other than loading times.

scott · Post by **scott** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 2:58 am

im guessing around about £550 gbp thats a nice price, even tho things are more expensiver here in the uk, i got mine for alot more £830 but for that i got 512mb ram for grpahics and 2gb ram and im sure it was ddr2 and that was about 4 months ago, so i must say you got ur self a bargin there

nice work (still paying mine off

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well have fun with it, get the highest spec game you got, run it at full spec and watch it say i want more!!

samysam · Post by **samysam** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:01 am

scott wrote:im guessing around about £550 gbp thats a nice price, even tho things are more expensiver here in the uk, i got mine for alot more £830 but for that i got 512mb ram for grpahics and 2gb ram and im sure it was ddr2 and that was about 4 months ago, so i must say you got ur self a bargin there nice work (still paying mine off )
well have fun with it, get the highest spec game you got, run it at full spec and watch it say i want more!!

sorry for my stupid 12 year old mind ..... but is this symbol >£ meen pounds ???

scott · Post by **scott** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:08 am

yea, wich is realy anoying because the standard us keybored i dont think has it

when i was at college they had put a new os system image up, they made the mistake of having the english us keyboard setup, no mater what i done i could not get the '£' sign up at all, had to open word and insert symbol to get it.

Post by **AndyCR** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:09 am

I think that's how much it is, about. I don't have too much experience with currencies outside the US. I currently can do Half-Life 2 (about the highest quality game I play) at 1440x900 with antialiasing perfectly smoothly on my desktop, which has a GeForce 7600GS, so I imagine it'll be slightly better on the new laptop. (Darn, the two weeks are driving me nuts, I'm only 2 days through it!)

Don't call yourself stupid for that!! I don't know either, I always assumed it was Euros, but I do not even know the relationship between Pounds, Euros, and GBP; you tend not to know much about money in other countries.

scott · Post by **scott** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:15 am

yea, i know that the conversion is around a bout 2usd to every gbp and the euro sign is '€'

psYco · Post by **psYco** » Sun Mar 18, 2007 3:22 am

And while were on currencys the Rand "R" (south african currency) is R16 to £1 and the Zim Dollar "Zim$" (zimbabwe currency) is somthing like Zim$1000 to £1 (i did not make a mistake with the naughts)

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