DOA Hard Drive
First time I've ever had a hard drive DOA. Was upgrading drives in my home server, as the drives were a bit old and wanted to increase space. Five years ago, said I'll never run out of space, LOL. ...
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I’ve dodged the bullet so far, but........ it’s going to happen, soon.
The big issue, and one of if not my biggest P!&% off, is the external drive DVR on my satellite TV service.
Some clever bunch of corporate bean-counters decided that if folks could access the content they’d have a data sharing problem.
Their solution? When you plug a new drive in to the sat. box it formats it in Linux and installs an auto-run program that looks at the S/N of the box, if it doesn’t match it won’t play. It also uses some weird, even for Linux, encryption that means you can’t even duplicate the drive.
So with MANY hours of content we can’t protect it, if the drive dies, it’s gone. It’s already noisy...... tick, tick, tick.
The big issue, and one of if not my biggest P!&% off, is the external drive DVR on my satellite TV service.
Some clever bunch of corporate bean-counters decided that if folks could access the content they’d have a data sharing problem.
Their solution? When you plug a new drive in to the sat. box it formats it in Linux and installs an auto-run program that looks at the S/N of the box, if it doesn’t match it won’t play. It also uses some weird, even for Linux, encryption that means you can’t even duplicate the drive.
So with MANY hours of content we can’t protect it, if the drive dies, it’s gone. It’s already noisy...... tick, tick, tick.
