These external Seagate drives suck!

They’ve like, all failed. I still have a 2TB Seagate External but my 250 GB Seagate external and TWO of my 750 GB Seagate externals died.
HOW COME MY WESTERN DIGITALS ARE ALL OKAY?!

To be fair, for the recent 750GB Seagate external drive, I determined that it wasn’t the hard drive failing, but the…um, circuits and stuff that connect to the drive. The enclosure.
1 screwdriver to pry the external drive open, 2 oven mitts to grasp the plastics and a FEAT OF STRENGTH later, and I ripped the enclosure apart revealing a hard drive.

Hard drive seems fine alone. Planted it into a PC and it doesn’t have the “Cannot find this file on disk” or hard drive shutting on and off symptoms as before. I’ve diagnostically determined…that it was the enclosure! (I’m watching a lot of House lately, if you couldn’t tell).

You know what I was thinking about? House is a diagnostician. He basically determines/diagnoses the problem to stuff.
You know what they call that in programmer terms? A debugger. Identifies and fixes bugs.

I think one of my greatest strengths is a debugger – I fix things. Often after breaking them first (curiosity and all that…and the challenge of putting something back together).
Makes me wonder if I could do House’s job. Though given the previous statement would mean a lot of people would end up dying for me to get better. That’s probably…not what I’d consider a “successful” profession or skill.

Seriously, I’ve been watching a LOT of House lately. I think I started a couple weeks ago, I’m already midway in Season 5. I was on the street today, looking at strangers. Which hands they used to drink their coffee. What they’re wearing, how they walk. I was trying to be all House-like. Determine things on the basis of small observations. I love that he can do that – and I would love to make that “power” mine.

I just know that his arrogance and being a jerk is going to rub off on my work persona. I’m like a sponge – I just absorb and reiterate things I watch on TV. Need good role models…not House.

Totally thinking though – the writers of House are so cool and smart. I think it must be incredibly difficult to write someone smarter than yourself. Because again, you don’t know what you don’t know. So how can you think like a genius when…well, you can’t think like a genius? I guess it takes time and creativity – think of something for days/weeks, but it all plays out in mere minutes in House.

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I just wanted to write about my external hard drive experiences in this post…but it somehow became about House.

/off to watch more House