A day in the life of...

IanF0729

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2006

• #1

...a Windows user. One of our servers died. We needed files, hence the McGiver-like attempt to get at them.

I dislike Palm Beach County greatly.

🙄

If we had been using Macs, I doubt this would have happened.

 

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iGary

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• Mar 22, 2006

• #2

Western Digital drives?

 

macOSX-tastic

macrumors 6502a

• Mar 22, 2006

• #3

looks like a dirty dirty mess. persuade your people to get XServes.

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S

 

IanF0729

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2006

• #4

iGary said:

Western Digital drives?

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Yes, actually. Two little 8GB disks. In all fairness, these were very old...why they were holding valuable data I have no idea.

Honestly, the Snapper had EDO RAM in them! I nearly choked.

 

FSUSem1noles

macrumors 68000

• Mar 22, 2006

• #5

IanF0729 said:

...a Windows user. One of our servers died. We needed files, hence the McGiver-like attempt to get at them.

I dislike Palm Beach County greatly.

🙄

If we had been using Macs, I doubt this would have happened.

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Here in Broward County, we're 90% Mac... if not more.

I absolutely love it!! 😀

 

IanF0729

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2006

• #6

macOSX-tastic said:

looks like a dirty dirty mess. persuade your people to get XServes.

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Heh, they poke fun at me when I start working on my iBook, XServes are not in the picture.

 

IanF0729

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2006

• #7

FSUSem1noles said:

Here in Broward County, we're 90% Mac... if not more.

I absolutely love it!! 😀

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Do you work for the county or a private company?

 

quicksilver77

macrumors 6502

• Mar 22, 2006

• #8

Why woudl this have not happened had u been using xserves? They are hard drives? Are they not? Do xserves have some magical data system to never have drive faults? Why didn't u back up the data on DAT or DVD or god you know...RAID? Why bash a windows server.

 

IanF0729

macrumors regular

Original poster

• Mar 22, 2006

• #9

quicksilver77 said:

Why woudl this have not happened had u been using xserves? They are hard drives? Are they not? Do xserves have some magical data system to never have drive faults? Why didn't u back up the data on DAT or DVD or god you know...RAID? Why bash a windows server.

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'Cause I was frustrated - bashing Windows always seems to help. Of course XServes would be just as likely to end up with a bad HDD.

I didn't back data up because I assumed our IT department was doing that...like they do with our other servers.

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