erek
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Why would you purposely go out and buy a death star? It's not even a cool nostalgia piece. It is literally one of the worst hard drives ever made.
So.... there's history. There were many DeskStar drives that were quite bad. And like most disk providers, once fixed, the DeskStars became some of the very best drives out there. Of course, most of you know them as Hitachi drives. While Hitachi was its own thing, with the now fixed issues of the DeathStar behind it, they produced some really really nice long lasting drives. And though they are "no more", even today's branded Hitachi's (now WD) seem to have a pretty good reliability rating, but it's not because of what I just said, I think they're just lucky mostly.
It's like getting one of those firestone tires from the 90's off an old explorer and putting it over your fireplace as decoration.Why would you purposely go out and buy a death star? It's not even a cool nostalgia piece. It is literally one of the worst hard drives ever made.
That's all fine and good, but THESE drives in the OP are the death star 75GXPs. These have absolutely no value.
Yeah but, most of those people are hoping that the GPU can be revived by installing new drivers or vBIOS or something. With this... it's still a deskstar.Some people like to own history though. I mean, people buy better than dead GPUs.
I just threw out a perfectly good 40gb death star the other day. Tossed that sucker off the back deck into the woods.
Next day, 20 geeky dudes with metal detectors scrounging in the woods....
Maybe for parts, so you can do data recovery?Why would you purposely go out and buy a death star? It's not even a cool nostalgia piece. It is literally one of the worst hard drives ever made.
Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
this is on my wish list!
the failures are some of the best stories!
IBM 75GXP
GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
etc, etc
Nope, I had 2 that lasted MANY years. If you kept them cool you were far less likely to have issues. I had one in a cool drive case and the other with a 80mm fan blowing on it.Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
I had one of those drives back in the day mine never died but the board it was attached to did (Asus A7N8X-E Deluxe)
There's a class of things that you buy because they're literally the worst X ever made. I didn't think hard drives where in that class
Toss it into am i845 SDR Pentium 4 motherboard with an XGI Volari V8 Duo Ultra and you'll be cooking with gas, in the sense that you'll be trying to make food powered by burning farts.
Willing to part with it? Does money talk?Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
Oh, MAN! On purpose?!Halon
I just got my 2nd sealed Duo the other day @ https://hardforum.com/threads/sealed-boxed-never-opened-xgi-volari-duo-v8-ultra.1995847/
as were most back then. i was doing warranty replacements on systems we built that were less than a year old. epox, GB, asus, abit, everything we used had the issue.Those boards were notorious for capacitor failure, as were all Asus boards at the time.
as were most back then. i was doing warranty replacements on systems we built that were less than a year old. epox, GB, asus, abit, everything we used had the issue.
Am I the only one that never had their 75GXP deathstar die? I felt so lucky.
https://hardforum.com/threads/fsft-rules-read-before-posting-or-commenting.1891705/Sent you a pm on heatware. New account here so can't post in fst or pm but interested in your board.