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About LinkBacksEasily the IBM Deskstar 75GXP got used to hearing the click of death from that drive. Complete joke and it cost a small fortune at the time IIRC
Easily the IBM Deskstar 75GXP got used to hearing the click of death from that drive. Complete joke and it cost a small fortune at the time IIRC
I stuck one in a server once (circa 9 years back now?) to serve out streaming video files. The drive got thrashed day in day out for the couple of years I worked there. Heard the other day that the old server is just about to be replaced but that the Deathstar is still going strong.Originally Posted by PeteBest
When ADSL finally arrived in my area I bought a Netgear modem/router and NIC. Both were utter garbage incapable of anything more demanding than web browsing and e-mail, the NIC would actually give BSoDs if you tried to use any P2P. Had a couple of useless TV tuners before, but my current Hauppauge Nova TD500 works extremely well.
Wow. I must have had to do at least 10 low level formats on mine just to keep it usable. Impressive that one has lasted this long!
I think I'll go with the 2 Deathstar hard drives that were purchased, broken and destroyed in very short order. I also had a Soltek motherboard in one of my Athlon builds for about a year, which used to cause a random blue screen every day or two. Boy was that frustrating; not sure how I put up with it for so long.
Finally, about 15 years ago I bought a "Soundblaster compatible" soundcard - I don't recall the make and model, but it wasn't a big name. It worked, but swapped the left and right channel outputs. The odd thing was that I'm sure some games had an option to swap the channels, so maybe this was fairly common with the cards of the time. Anyway, after much playing with my headphones on backwards and trying to find some kind of adapter, I bought a GUS. Problem solved.
Startech 2 port SATA 2 PCIE card. The card is so short it doesn't reach the backplate is not locked\screwed in. Window complains the drivers from Startech and Jmicron have not been digitally signed and refuses to install under win 7 64 bit.
Spacewalker (Shuttle) HOT-603 AMD640 Chipset motherboard. Promised so much and delivered so little.
Extremely fussy about the hardware used, and temperamental. Was never stable and was sold after little real use, never touch an AMD or VIA chipset motherboard since.
My case
100mb Zip Drive (via Serial Port) and about 10 disks, what a genius decision that was, made completely and utterly redundant within 6mths because of affordable CDRW drives launching.
But damn, those disks made a nice satisfying 'clink,clunk' sound when you inserted them..
Data backup for real men...
Ironic, seeing as they'd reduce the most macho alpha male to crying like a baby within weeks!
The worst components were inside a PC I bought second hand. Worst £180 I ever spent.
A VIA based motherboard from PC chips. When I got it home it booted but basically did not work for a number of reasons. The motherboard needed a driver to make it work with any modems or other devices and guess what you need a modem to download the drivers! Needless to say the awful mobo maker had no drivers on it's website for their motherboard and I had to identify the chipset by looking at it and much guessing. When I got it working the performance of this pentium 3 class device was not really as good as a decent pentium 1. Awful. Avoid pc chips if they still exist.
The graphics card in it was a Rage pro iirc and when I managed to identify what it was and get the latest drivers on it the performance was better than software mode but not much. Half the time the thing just would not run or just looked wrong. These were supposed to be better than the early 3dfx cards of which I had one previously. It wasn't. Poor, probably cos of bad drivers. Slapped wrist for you ATI for that piece of cack.
Yep I had one of those which only lasted a year.
I had one of those too. It blew up. Lucky for me my PC worked OK after I bought a new PSU (I spent 120 on a 900w seasonic, no messing about!). Unluckily either the mobo or hard drive had occasional issues after that which meant my PC would lock up completely. Frustrating.
It is most certainly the Yamaha CD-R I bought sometime in 1997 or '98. That thing developed a "sick tray" early on, and I always had to "fight" with it to burn a CD. Until it finally broke. It was also quite expensive. Needless to say, I never bothered with Yamaha CD-Rs or DVD-Rs from that time on. That was such a wrong investment. I should have bought Plextor CD-R.
You guys are giving me the fear. I've been using a Hiper modular 730W in my main PC for over 5 years, and it's performed flawlessly. In fact I should have put it in my list of best components.
They have a reputation for exploding, especially the Type-Rs. It isn't just me and Ciber.
You know they went bust a couple of years back?
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