Stark wrote:Wrong. I just checked both of my drives and a laptop. Nothing of the sort happened, no damage at all. Whoops, looks like some people design drives to keep the disc away from obstacles and some don't! Not to mention the 360 apparently damages discs if you STEP ON THE FLOOR TOO HARD.
Laptop drives generally have a physical latching mechanism which holds the thing in pace, and slot loaded drives have completely different physics to tray loaded drives like the Xbox360 is.
The damn thing is little more than an existing PC DVD drive slapped into a custom case with a custom data connector. There is also the matter how the Xbox360 uses the drive, it is either spun up at full speed or not at all compared to a normal PC which doesnt leave the drive spun up at fullspeed continiously (due to access patterns). Those suckers are not designed to be shaken while running, and thus is a bad design choice by Microsoft.
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Well, I took my 360 back to Best Buy, and tried to return it under the Product replacement plan I bought, but they wouldn't take it. They claimed they couldn't find anything wrong with the system.
According to the best buy rep, keeping your 360 on a carpeted surface, even if there are no vibrations or anything to make the disc skip, will slowly kill your game discs. He claimed that even a milimeter level of unevenness between the two sides of the console can cause disc damage.
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks
Call Microsoft, get one of their tech monkeys to debunk that, get a case reference, and go back. That's a pretty damn poor attempt at a fob off, and you shouldn't accept it.
Vendetta wrote:Call Microsoft, get one of their tech monkeys to debunk that, get a case reference, and go back. That's a pretty damn poor attempt at a fob off, and you shouldn't accept it.
No need.
After I got done talking with the sales rep, I called the hotline, and told them how full of shit thier representative was. All I have to do is go back and ask for the manager, and they'll hand me one no questions asked.
EDIT: once I get my new one, I'm drilling some ventilation holes in my TV stand and putting it in there.
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks
Ah yes yet another horror story for a best buy PRP.. which is odd because they didn't even look at mine when I brought it in. I told them what was happening and the girl at the counter said okay go pick out a new one and she had the hard drive from my old one detached and ready to slap on by the time I got back.
SylasGaunt wrote:Ah yes yet another horror story for a best buy PRP.. which is odd because they didn't even look at mine when I brought it in. I told them what was happening and the girl at the counter said okay go pick out a new one and she had the hard drive from my old one detached and ready to slap on by the time I got back.
What?
When I asked them if they would help me recover saved games and stuff on the HD, they pretty much told me to go fuck myself. I had to buy a memory unit and transfer all my saved games before I brought it in.
Where the hell do you live, and how much does housing cost?
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks
Losonti Tokash wrote:Darksider, why didn't you just, you know, keep the hard drive? You didn't need to transfer anything to a memory unit.
I didn't know you could pull it out.
And this is why you don't watch anything produced by Ronald D. Moore after he had his brain surgically removed and replaced with a bag of elephant semen.-Gramzamber, on why Caprica sucks
Just to check, the PStwo (slim)'s top-loading drive is safer? And does it spin the discs at varying speeds?
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