Nex is dead!

You may be wondering who Nex is. Well it’s m notebook, a Dell Latitude D600 I bought about 3 years ago, when starting my studies at ETH Zurich. It’s dead…

It all started a week ago when all the sudden the disk started to spins uncontrollably (much higher than the 5′400 RPM it’s supposed to do), so I shut it off with a hard reset, when booting again it complained that it couldn’t find the primary disk, so I let it turned off for a while, and miracle, it started again. It scared me so much that I decided to start making backups, and not a day to soon. I set up a simple rsync script that would sync my homefolder to another box, so I could at least go back if all went snafu.

Today it did. After some clicking noises, the notebook started not reacting properly and I decided to shut it down… it never came up again…

Well, hopefully I can get hold on a disk soon because it’s my main working machine. Until then: Rest in Peace Nex :D

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6 Responses to “Nex is dead!”

  1. Leon  on February 7th, 2008

    That was some pretty forward thinking on your part. Making the backup I mean. I’d better start doing the same. My PCs little over a year old, but you never know.

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  2. Fading Roses & Raging Viruses » Blog Archive » Back up script  on February 8th, 2008

    [...] up script Earlier this week the Disk of Nex died. While it is back up with a bigger and faster disk (not everything’s bad about a failure :D ) [...]

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  3. Christian Decker  on February 12th, 2008

    I just posted the backup script I’m using if you’re interested in it ^^

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  4. blogzilla  on February 12th, 2008

    I have the Latitude D630 and I love it. It’s light weight and great on the go. If I had to change one thing, it would be a better and faster CPU.

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  5. Reward Rebel  on February 29th, 2008

    I thought I was being really together backing up files from my PC and laptop to an external hard drive, but I neglected to turn off the h/d for ages (must’ve been months) and it didn’t like that, cos after making a strange buzzing that got louder and louder, it finally quietly passed away.

    The best laid plans… ;-D

    P.S. CommentLuv is a doll, eh?

    Reward Rebel’s last blog post..Last Chance To Speak Up!

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