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red-beard · red-beard's Garage

The processor used in that machine is about 6 generations old.

Pazuzu · 03-16-2018, 06:44 AM

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Originally Posted by red-beard

The processor used in that machine is about 6 generations old.

The thread is 4 years old

JD159 · 03-16-2018, 07:08 AM

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Originally Posted by peteremsley

true, but in my experience, catastrophic when they do fail. none of this vintage "bad sector" stuff

I can second that. Had a drive since about 2012 which was pretty good. Went downstairs and all it said was cannot find boot device. Zero warning signs. It died on black Friday so that was a fantastic excuse to buy a new one!

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

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Originally Posted by Pazuzu

The thread is 4 years old

Did not see that!

People need to start new threads not revive ancient history. And I need to read closer...

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

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Originally Posted by JD159

I can second that. Had a drive since about 2012 which was pretty good. Went downstairs and all it said was cannot find boot device. Zero warning signs. It died on black Friday so that was a fantastic excuse to buy a new one!

I do daily backups on my PCs with SSD drives, for this reason. In fact, I usually put in a second, standard hard drive to be the backup system. On the NUCs, I buy the extended unit which allows a Hard disk. I use the M2 SSD for booting, etc, and a real and cheap hard disk for automatic backup.

epbrown · 03-17-2018, 01:36 AM

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Originally Posted by island911

I'm going to need one of these. The laptop before last died on me (spilled coffee in it) and I replaced it with a 10" subnotebook with 128MB of space - much less room than what it replaced. Now that I've got more drive space, I'll finally have access to all that old data again. That was my last subnotebook, btw - at 55 I can't hack a 10" display anymore...

island911 · 03-17-2018, 06:33 AM

I'm not quite at 55, but I do use a 10" display (older Surface Pro 2) and know what you mean.

Usually it's running a 30" 2560x1600 monitor. But when traveling, I bring reading glasses to ease the readability of the tiny text. I like to travel light.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

I'm looking at the Lenovo ThinkPad X1. 12" Windows 10 Pro tablet with stick on keyboard. I havdd a Samsung Tab S3, which I can connect to my office PC, but the screen is a bit too small.

I find it funny, 12" was standard for PCs, back in the DOS days.

Oracle · 03-17-2018, 10:00 AM

For me is not worth it.. frankly I can wait a few seconds here and there when I open the applications I use..
SSD is great if you need it (or if you have a the money burning a hole in your pocket). For day to day... I don't see the value.

The SSD are much smaller in capacity compared to regular HDDs, so it all depends what you want to have locally in your laptop.. cause if you have to rely on a network drive or cloud to access your files it will defeat the purpose of having a fast Hard drive in your laptop...

It depends what you want and why...

Por_sha911 · Por_sha911's Garage

Even though the thread is old, my understanding is that SSD is great for the Operating System fast boot up but a 2nd optical drive is more reliable for storage.
Has there been any advancement in recovering an SSD or is it still the same - perfect or paperweight but nothing in between?

island911 · 03-17-2018, 12:39 PM

FWIW I have MANY dead HDD's and zero dead SSD's. The oldest is ~8years. I must have 9 SSDs (not counting the SD cards and such)

My theory on the HDD's breaking has been that they never could survive the harsh ride of the 911 over Seattle crap roads.

widebody911 · widebody911's Garage

Did they ever find the Lindbergh baby?

JD159 · 03-17-2018, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Oracle

For me is not worth it.. frankly I can wait a few seconds here and there when I open the applications I use..
SSD is great if you need it (or if you have a the money burning a hole in your pocket). For day to day... I don't see the value.

The SSD are much smaller in capacity compared to regular HDDs, so it all depends what you want to have locally in your laptop.. cause if you have to rely on a network drive or cloud to access your files it will defeat the purpose of having a fast Hard drive in your laptop...

It depends what you want and why...

For day to day, the speed increase is exactly what you need it for. Try it first.

red-beard · red-beard's Garage

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Originally Posted by island911

FWIW I have MANY dead HDD's and zero dead SSD's. The oldest is ~8years. I must have 9 SSDs (not counting the SD cards and such)

My theory on the HDD's breaking has been that they never could survive the harsh ride of the 911 over Seattle crap roads.

Ive had several SSDs die. 2 from wrong application (NAS), and 2 in PCs. I run 10 Pro, so network backups daily.

epbrown · 03-18-2018, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Oracle

For me is not worth it.. frankly I can wait a few seconds here and there when I open the applications I use..
SSD is great if you need it (or if you have a the money burning a hole in your pocket). For day to day... I don't see the value.

I think it's like most technology advances, from fuel injection to smart phones - you'll be fine with what you're used to as long as you don't try it. For instance, installing the OS took about 5 minutes.

To me, the irony is that with an SSD writing at 6GB/s, a 2.4Ghz CPU and 8GB of RAM, Windows is finally loading and running as quickly as it used to back when I had a 486-50Mhz with 16MB pushing Windows 3.1 on top of DOS. I've been grousing about Windows load times since Windows 95 and finally, it's solved.