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The good news is wear out goes at impressive speed too.
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Three year warranty, and all the destructive testing I've seen say it will in normal operation outlast the lappie it's in!
The old HDD is three years old, and has physical problems, probably from her just shutting it and moving it too much before it's stopped hibernating. Being an SSD, it shouldn't have that problem. And the price difference at the moment is pretty small: her HDD was a 480GB (with 120GB used) and the SSD is the same size.
To replace the HDD with the same was going to cost about £45, the Sandisk Ultra II SSD was £90.
And it's lower power, so battery life goes up by ~15% apparently.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's good.
In my experience, the HDDs are very reliable devices. I still use some very very old ones.
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They can be very robust - but they will fail: bearings wear out, servos loose accuracy, heads crash. And the old ones seem to be more reliable than the new in my experience. Probably because they spin faster, fly closer, and pack data more densely.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: bearings wear out, servos loose accuracy, heads crash. And the old ones seem to be more reliable than the new in my experience. Probably because they spin faster, fly closer, and pack data more densely.
You are not confusing it with a model helicopter?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Nah...HDDs are easier to back up! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Speaking of backing up - I'm training flying backwards now. For the time being only with the simulator because I still struggle too much with not steering as if I was flying forwards.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I used to have the same problem with towing trailers... 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Probably because they spin faster, fly closer, and pack data more densely.
I agree about how the older ones seemed to last the life a a PC. The problem is not so much the data density/speed/etc., but rather the source of manufacture and the attitude.
It turns out that, with the reduced cost of manufacturing in China, doing QC at the user end is cheaper than the real thing. If the drive dies - give them a new one! Look at how many drives (from any manufacturer) are DOA, or join the legions of the dead within a few weeks. As for your data? Not their problem, is it?
My philosophical outlook (and why I don't by > 1TB drives) is: An unreliable Hard Drive is overpriced at "Free"
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Good information because I have the same problem.
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Yeah - I'll never go back to HDDs, and Win10 is a lot faster on things like boot and wake-up. Way faster.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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I use Windows 8/10 boot-up speed as an example in training/discussions to prove that performance improvement is a never-ending process and never hits a wall.
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OriginalGriff wrote: An elderly lady I do PC support for
Hope your mom was pleased and that she can once again browser her cat pictures at a reasonable speed...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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I don't think my mum ever used a computer - or even a digital timer!
Iris does well - she does things with Word that I don't even try, like making one-page-folding-booklets.
If I could just stop her clicking "OK" on every dialog on the internet...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Speaking as one who never shuts down a computer unless forced, kicking and screaming, to do so, I don't really give a damn about start-up times. We all need to get coffee or do toilet-paper origami some time, no?
But transferring my weven systems and {pf}s to SSD made such a difference in general performance that I don't think I'd ever be happy to use HDDs for them again.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: I don't really give a damn about start-up times.
Nor do I.
But with a lappie, being able to just open it up and it's out of hibernate and ready to rock in a second or so is a big plus as far as battery life goes!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Movie Quote Of The Day
Curious about what, sharks are only curious about one thing. It's trying to decide if were food or not!
Which movie?
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Shark Attack 3: Megalodon
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Sharkcando
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Sharkcando
What's that? A new social network for 'advanced' users?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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CDP1802 wrote: Shark can do
No, it's a support group for sharks with poor confindence and low self esteem...
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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