Comments on: Unbelievable luck

By: Oddly enough, ‘Five gets it right « Motho ke motho ka botho

Oddly enough, ‘Five gets it right « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 12:20:08 +0000

[...] a drive that is occasionally reported at the wrong size — it’s a 120Gb drive, one that fell out of the sky on me, years [...]

By: Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho

Twenty-ten: The picks of the litter « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 23:40:08 +0000

[...] so, combining a 13-year-old 133Mhz Pentium with only 32Mb, a RaLink-based PCMCIA network card and a gift-from-god 120Gb 5400rpm hard drive sounds like a recipe for [...]

By: Yuhong Bao

Yuhong Bao — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 01:13:49 +0000

To be honest, I can’t think of any BIOS barriers that an 120 GB drive hit that a 40 GB drive would not hit anyway.

By: Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho

Nothing to scoff at: Arch Linux, 300Mhz Celeron « Motho ke motho ka botho — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:58:21 +0000

[...] well as a single machine to handle torrent downloading. I will probably supplant the drive with the WD Scorpio, which is just lying around these days. Might as well put it to use, and provided it will start, [...]

By: hdrev

hdrev — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 05:21:03 +0000

something similar happened to me, i was lucky but not that much lol

i ordered a hitachi travelstar hdd of 160GB and a 200GB hdd arrived

same price and everything, sometimes errors can be good

By: Howto: rsync a system between drives « Motho ke motho ka botho

Howto: rsync a system between drives « Motho ke motho ka botho — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 04:14:07 +0000

[...] from my Thinkpad to a different hard drive. I was using the 120Gb Western Digital Scorpio that fell out of the sky into my hands, but I have a faster-yet-smaller hard drive — a 7200rpm 60Gb Hitachi — that I would [...]

By: A fork in the road « Motho ke motho ka botho

A fork in the road « Motho ke motho ka botho — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:25:58 +0000

[...] Set up Ubuntu for speed « Unbelievable luck [...]

By: Tony

Tony — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:14:33 +0000

WOW – that is extremely good fortune! Good for you! Let’s hope others enjoy the same experience you are enjoying at this moment.

Within the past two days I had a totally opposite experience. Another birthday rolled around and my wife offered to buy me a netbook because I had been showing some interest in them recently. I’ve gotten several computers and the way I figure it is “What’s ‘just’ one more computer?” (Cough – Cough)

I live in the USA and in our area there are several Office Depot stores that sell everything you could imagine an office could use and of course computers. They sell to businesses and to the public. On display they had two exact Acer model number netbooks that were identical and on sale. The same size 160gig HDD, same Acer model number, same operating system, same RAM, same price, the color was the same, and the same Office Depot part number. I asked the salesman why he had the same computer model on display twice? He admitted that he mistakenly did it, but left it that way because he was to busy to go back and correct the mistake.

For me it was a good thing he made that mistake. When I was “playing” with both of the netbooks on the shelf display I noticed one of the identical Acer netbooks only had a 120gig HDD, while its’ supposed twin had a 160gig HDD. I brought this to the salesman’s attention and he was at a loss for words. He said one of the Acer’s clearly had a 120gig HDD instead of the 160gig HDD and he did not know why?

By the time our conversation ended there were several customers gathered around looking at this model because it was on a weekly sale. Not a single customer (including me) bought one.

Just imagine, if a defect had occurred and the unit had to be returned to Acer for repair, Acer would’ve denied warranty coverage because the netbook had the 160gig HDD changed out by the customer for some reason and that would’ve voided the Acer warranty. Acer would never admit they substituted a smaller HDD in any computer they sold because it would involve a multi-million dollar recall as well as monetary penalties.

I’ll stay with my former Vista laptop that now has Ubuntu 8.04 installed and runs like a sweet dream!