Hardware Fatality List

I like my magnet I'm not sure why, but lately I've had an unbelievable streak of hardware failures. I've apparently started to develop a bit of a reputation for it too: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

My problems began in mid-November with the death of my workstation's power supply, here's a list of the other failures to the best of my recollection (with a little help from search.twitter.com).

Old workstation power supply
RAM for new workstation
MacBook Pro hard drive (#)
Latitude XT screen (#)
Workstation RAID (mirror broke, turned into 3 identical pairs of partitions) (#)
iPhone Music Database
MacBook Pro touchpad button (#)
BlackBerry Curve Trackball (#)
iPhone Power Button (#)
MacBook Pro Sudden Motion Sensor (activates for no reason, keyboard and touchpad stop working)
MacBook Pro (general failure, stopped booting) (#)
Power supply on my printer (#)
9 month old MBP Battery (#, #)
8 month old PowerBook HDD (replaced a dead HDD last summer)

I'm starting to understand how Steve feels.

UPDATE Feb 25, 2009: Hard drive in my PowerBook (used for iTunes/AirTunes, TV and movies) just croaked after only 8 months (when the original ~4 year old drive died).

Posted on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 11:50 pm | Filed under Personal, Technology
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3 Responses to “Hardware Fatality List”

Around the web | alexking.org Says:
February 22nd, 2009 at 6:35 pm
[...] Hardware Fatality List | corey gilmore's blog [...]
stephen o'grady Says:
February 23rd, 2009 at 11:01 am
the good news is that when stuff works, it will now be a pleasant surprise.

ok, i lied. that's not good news at all.
Mom/Dad Says:
March 9th, 2009 at 7:24 pm
that's Grandpa's magnet

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