My old 40gb IBM Deskstar hard drive finally gave up the ghost on Sunday. It had been threatening to do so for a while now – even a low-level format earlier this year failed to map out the bad bits that caused it to make the kind of noises hard drives shouldn’t. I can’t say I’m all that bothered by its loss, it was slow, had a small capacity by today’s standards and it ran like a boiler (so much so, I could afford to keep my radiator turned off).<\/p>\n
So, being the prepared kind of guy I am (more about preparation<\/strong> in later posting), I had the replacement hard drive arrive on the Friday before the Sunday. I’m sure there’s some prophecy to take into account here, but no, for real, I knew it was going to happen so the new drive was all ready to be installed. It’s a nice 250gb Maxtor Diamondmax 10 with 16MB cache – boy is it fast. Considering most drives have 2mb or 8mb caches, this drive should fly. And it’s really quiet too. <\/p>\n Anyway, the purpose of this post was to mention an RSS feed reader for Outlook: I’ve moved away from TheBat, largely for performance problems, and also because I’ve got way too much e-mail to manage so I figured a clean start in a new e-mail client would help. And I can synchronise Outlook’s schedule with my PocketPC, which is good – I need to get even more <\/em>organised.<\/p>\n