Today is a staff development day and since I did 17 1/2 hours this summer, I have the day off. Of course, I always do more than the required hours (22 hours).
Anyway, I have noticed that the hard drive in my home office system has been whining and this morning I woke up to a black screen and the drive light lit. When I rebooted, I got a SMART drive error, telling me to back up my data as the drive was failing.
I did.
So I hadn’t planned this, though today is full of mundane errands, I’m replacing the hard drive. It’s a Maxtor and I bought a new Maxtor — 200 gig at $49 after rebate. Not a bad deal.
The nice thing is how much easier it is these days to replace a hard drive, I was dreading it, and still am, but all I am having to do is run the MaxBlast software.
And I can wait until the whining disk is out of the system!