Dinarius = digital interest
22 October 2011

Hard Drive Hard Times

Flooding in Thailand has caused Western Digital to suspend manufacturing and Chinese hard drive makers like Seagate have also been affected with some of their components come from water logged Thailand.

Truck at Western Digital in Thailand submerged by flooding.

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28 November 2007

ZV6000 Never Faster

locate the second RAM bayadding 1GB stick, now laptop won’t start – 28NOV07 – And finally, the RAM for the dv6000 HP Pavilion laptop arrives. Memory Ten invoices it as ABQ 1GB 200p PC2700 CL2.5 16c The price is a rather unforgiving $79.98 plus tax and $9.00 (!) shipping. Ouch. After all the stories and visits, I was terrified that I would join you all in another story of black screens, no boots, no nothing. I’m happy to extend a hand to you and say, DO THIS! Below is the 256 stick that I replaced with the new 1GB stick just thirty minutes ago.

A 256 stick that shipped with another totalling 512 for the machine.

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