In the last few days...
1) The motherboard on my primary laptop died, six weeks after the end of a four-year warranty. I cannot renew the warranty -- because Dell only offers warranties up to 5 years, only sells warranty periods in units of one year, and the laptop is four years plus six weeks old.
I bought a new motherboard to install. It's supposed to be on its way by now but I haven't heard.
2) My Mac Mini has repeatedly hung with CPU failures ("cpu #1 [of a dual core] has stopped responding to interrupts.")
3) My Drobo (NAS drive) died, taking every bit of data I own with it. It turns out there was massive filesystem corruption, taking ~10% of my files with it; the rest is being recovered with Disk Warrior.
4) The 120GB external drive I first used to try to make a backup of my laptop died (just a month old! Shipped back under warranty.)
5) One of the 300GB drives making up my Addonics tower has died.
All of this has happened since Thursday.
Don't read this blog entry -- my mojo might be contagious.
I bought a new motherboard to install. It's supposed to be on its way by now but I haven't heard.
2) My Mac Mini has repeatedly hung with CPU failures ("cpu #1 [of a dual core] has stopped responding to interrupts.")
3) My Drobo (NAS drive) died, taking every bit of data I own with it. It turns out there was massive filesystem corruption, taking ~10% of my files with it; the rest is being recovered with Disk Warrior.
4) The 120GB external drive I first used to try to make a backup of my laptop died (just a month old! Shipped back under warranty.)
5) One of the 300GB drives making up my Addonics tower has died.
All of this has happened since Thursday.
Don't read this blog entry -- my mojo might be contagious.