kingofall00 Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 I am building a hyper-spin cabinet with no monitor, just an hdmi out to mount to any tv that i choose. One thing i worry about is my base doesnt move much its fairly stead but, when we play an intense game of street fighter the base does wobble a bit. Now, what i am wondering is if my harddrive is mounted in the base do you guys think there will be any damage or data loss? ive considered going with a 2.5 harddrive because they are meant to be moved around alot more ( laptop style). or does any one know of any way to help reduce the chance of damage?
connorsdad Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 I have a cloned harddrive backup just incase. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
blade Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 Firstly how come the base wobbles it should be fairly sturdy when you play on it like the original arcade machines so perhaps add more structure to reduce the wobble.As mentioned you should always have a backup of your colletion just in case but from my experience hdds can take a little shake ortherwise companies wouldnt post em out .
Polemicist Posted March 13, 2014 Posted March 13, 2014 My thoughts exactly? the average cab weighs so damn much you need two people to lift it pretty much anywhere and if it has a CRT in it you need to add two more people and a case of beer.
kingofall00 Posted March 14, 2014 Author Posted March 14, 2014 ok sounds good. ill have to get a clone as a back up. i guess im gonna need another 2 tb harddrive. so you guys think i should mount inside like an internal harddrive? or leave it inside my external hard drive case?
HazzardActual Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 I think what they meant was to clone the drive and have it set aside just in case of failure, no reason to have it in the cab
connorsdad Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 I leave mine in the cab and do a backup every month or so if I have changed something or installed something new. Sent from my SM-N9005 using Tapatalk
dougan78 Posted March 14, 2014 Posted March 14, 2014 I have a 300 gig drive for my boot with hyperspin/media on it (uses less than 100 gigs) and then a 4tb drive with my roms. I backup my boot drive every week to the 4tb drive. I have all my rom sets minted on my 4tb drive uncompressed mostly. Those minted sets are then zipped and stored on a nas with a 2 drive mirror. Backups are important. I have been working on things since September 2013. If I lost it all I think I would throw the whole cab in the firepit and call it a day and head to the pub.
mikekim Posted March 24, 2014 Posted March 24, 2014 you you are worried about shock damage, you could probably pickup a vibration proof mount for the hard disk, that should help with shakes and knocks
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