Major crash at wrel.com

This is the general tropical discussion area. Anyone can take their shot at predicting a storms path.

Moderator: S2k Moderators

Forum rules

The posts in this forum are NOT official forecasts and should not be used as such. They are just the opinion of the poster and may or may not be backed by sound meteorological data. They are NOT endorsed by any professional institution or STORM2K. For official information, please refer to products from the National Hurricane Center and National Weather Service.

Help Support Storm2K
Post Reply
Message
Author
User avatar
Scott_inVA
Storm2k Forecaster
Storm2k Forecaster
Posts: 1238
Joined: Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:44 pm
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Contact:
Contact Scott_inVA

Major crash at wrel.com

#1 Postby Scott_inVA » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:12 am

WREL.com experienced a fatal hard drive crash around 5:15PM on Saturday. A new drive was installed this morning and we're on a back-up from 10/14/03. I've redone the Model Map page and am working on updating the hurricane and weather products.

Everything should now load but please check times of graphics until we can proof everything. Never had this happen before... not fun :(

Thanks
Scott
Last edited by Scott_inVA on Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:54 am, edited 1 time in total.
0 likes   
Top
chadtm80

#2 Postby chadtm80 » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:17 am

ahhhhhhhhhh Good old crash.. LOL Sorry my man.. Glad to hear everything is back up and running.. Let us know if you need anything
0 likes   
Top
User avatar
Stormsfury
Category 5
Category 5
Posts: 10549
Age: 53
Joined: Wed Feb 05, 2003 6:27 pm
Location: Summerville, SC

#3 Postby Stormsfury » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:27 am

Sorry to hear about that, Scott. Hard Drive Crashes are NO FUN. I hope the transition period goes smoothly.

SF
0 likes   
Top
Josephine96

#4 Postby Josephine96 » Sun Oct 19, 2003 9:32 am

I hate crashes..
0 likes   
Top
User avatar
cycloneye
Admin
Admin
Posts: 146106
Age: 69
Joined: Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:54 am
Location: San Juan, Puerto Rico

#5 Postby cycloneye » Sun Oct 19, 2003 12:34 pm

My computer crashed in january and it was not a good experience but Scott I hope that all is fine now.
0 likes   
Visit the Caribbean-Central America Weather Thread where you can find at first post web cams,radars
and observations from Caribbean basin members Click Here
Top
User avatar
Scott_inVA
Storm2k Forecaster
Storm2k Forecaster
Posts: 1238
Joined: Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:44 pm
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Contact:
Contact Scott_inVA

#6 Postby Scott_inVA » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:00 pm

chadtm80 wrote:(snip)... Let us know if you need anything


alcohol, tranquilizers, nitroglycerin to restart the heart all would have been welcomed. Oh, and maybe a Yankees win over the Marlins, too :wink:

I think we've got most of it current. Thanks.

Scott
0 likes   
Top
Josephine96

#7 Postby Josephine96 » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:11 pm

Sometimes I intentionally crash my computer when I get bored lol..

I make the blue screen of death appear as it's called lol
0 likes   
Top
User avatar
abajan
S2K Supporter
S2K Supporter
Posts: 4246
Joined: Sun Sep 07, 2003 5:10 am
Location: Barbados

#8 Postby abajan » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:36 pm

If you had stuff which wasn't backed-up on that old drive which crashed and you think it's lost forever, cheer up. It's not. And I'm not talking about any expensive thousands of dollars restoration service either. It's my understanding that there's now a website that you can go to and download a file (for a nominal fee via a computer with a good hard drive) which can can be used to completely recover all of the information from the crashed drive. I have a friend who thought the world had come to an end because a whole lot of very important info related to her business was stored on a drive that crashed. Well, the computer repair company used the file I mentioned to recover all of her stuff. 8-)
0 likes   
Top
User avatar
Lindaloo
Category 5
Category 5
Posts: 22658
Joined: Sat Mar 29, 2003 10:06 am
Location: Pascagoula, MS

#9 Postby Lindaloo » Sun Oct 19, 2003 1:43 pm

Sorry to hear that Scott.
0 likes   
Top
ColdFront77

#10 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Oct 19, 2003 4:20 pm

Scott, I am sorry to hear about your computer crash at WREL. "The blue screen of death" is one way we know our computer's have crashed. What happened to your system?


Josephine96 wrote:Sometimes I intentionally crash my computer when I get bored lol..

I make the blue screen of death appear as it's called lol

How do you intentionally crash your computer? I wouldn't think boredom would lead to wanting to
"basically harm" your computer.
Last edited by ColdFront77 on Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:40 pm, edited 1 time in total.
0 likes   
Top
User avatar
Scott_inVA
Storm2k Forecaster
Storm2k Forecaster
Posts: 1238
Joined: Sat Oct 12, 2002 5:44 pm
Location: Lexington, Virginia
Contact:
Contact Scott_inVA

#11 Postby Scott_inVA » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:05 pm

ColdFront77 wrote:Scott, I am sorry to hear about your computer crash at WREL. "The blue screen of death" is our computer crashing... what happened to your system?


Josephine96 wrote:Sometimes I intentionally crash my computer when I get bored lol..

I make the blue screen of death appear as it's called lol

How do you intentionally crash your computer? I wouldn't think boredom would lead to wanting to
"basically harm" your computer.


Not sure, CF. We moved to a new machine in August so this was a surprise. The HD apparently started writing to bad sectors which increased with site traffic. HD was quickly chewed up before it could be shut down. HD was replaced and a 10/14/03 back-up was restored. Fortunately, the host performs full back-ups weekly and we do incrementals here. Moral of the sotry....backupbackbackup.

Our box is in Ft. Worth so Texans are okay by me :wink:

Scott

ps...I'm tracking the SW Carib blob...might get interesting.
0 likes   
Top
ColdFront77

#12 Postby ColdFront77 » Sun Oct 19, 2003 5:41 pm

Scott, you witnessed a crash, so you know how it did so.

The southwestern Caribbean isn't too far away from land areas, thus it sure could become interesting.
0 likes   
Top
Post Reply

Return to “Talkin' Tropics”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: 869MB, AutoPenalti, Cpv17, duilaslol, Greener, Ian2401, jgh, jhpigott, Keldeo1997, LAF92, LarryWx, Orlando_wx, Pelicane, Sambucol2024, Teban54 and 119 guests