1/8 Motoko Kusanagi – Good Smile

I totally love Ghost in the Shell, would call myself a cyberpunk fanatic: watched the original movie at least 10 times (3 times at the theature back in the 90′s), bought the videotape (yes that’s VHS), VCD and DVD and the awesome soundtrack by Kenji Kawai.

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Tachikoma: fix my HD T_T

Few days ago, suddenly my partitions were gone on my 1TB Samsung HD103UJ (which I bought for my bday 6months ago)
It will boot up but it’s not accessible anymore, my system now recognizes it as a 8gb drive.
I only used it for storage, but what I lost exactly? I have no idea…
I do know I had a partition of 500gb worth of asian DVD’s, but titles? I couldn’t name them.
the other 350gb were anime shows, j-drama shows, american tv-shows and stuff I don’t remember now.

I tried anything, placed it in my other rig – no go
I tried to format it – no go
even Tachikoma couldn’t fix it…

then I tried several data recovery utilities, the only thing I could salvage from the drive were (don’t laugh) a few JAV-movies XD

In total I think I lost around 850gb of data. But for some reason I don’t feel too sad about it. (maybe because I got other things on my mind?)
Once I said: I’d rather buy 2x500gb drives instead of 1 larger drive, cos if it dies, the loss will be less painful.
That’s so true, my main rig has/had 2x500gb+1x1TB.  The other 2 drives have been working flawlessly for 2-3 years now.

Oh, don’t you just love Tachikoma? ^_^
I’m a huge GITS fanatic, it’s definitely my alltime favorite anime. (not to mention, Motoko is like the only female character I worship hehe)

-Tequila

Update: I got my HD back from RMA, well not the drive that went bad ofcourse, I got a brand new one. Now to find time to set it up… Not sure if I will put an OS on it this time.