Notice: Home alone tonight?
Topic: My PC is 7 yo, my laptop is 10 yo, and my monitor is 13 yo
+Nugget Springroll !Uvm54ORbmo — 9.8 years ago #45,668
Yet they all refuse to break down and not giving me good reason to replace them :/
+Syntax — 9.8 years ago, 31 minutes later[T] [B] #498,463
Laptop with same hard drive for all those 10?
·Nugget Springroll !Uvm54ORbmo (OP) — 9.8 years ago, 3 minutes later, 35 minutes after the original post[T] [B] #498,464
@previous (Syntax)
yep, no replace or update was made
+FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 9.8 years ago, 45 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #498,471
My music HD is 10 years old. I thought it had died last year, but it was actually the power adapter I was plugging it into and not the drive itself. I should've made a backup as soon as I found out it still worked, but backups require maintenance...
·Nugget Springroll !Uvm54ORbmo (OP) — 9.8 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #498,473
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
nah you just need to copy every shit onto another harddrive and lock that harddrive into safe
·Syntax — 9.8 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[T] [B] #498,474
Just this week after spending time in a computer repair dept of a huge company and they have multiple small dept spread out over many huge buildings - They have been keeping track of Laptops that fail that are usually stationary vs mobile with the hard drive on. Life the those on the move is much less than stationary. Of course a drop any drop while spinning is asking for head crashes.
With only one exception all of my laptops now have Sandisk SSD -
Every few years as NOW I end up on a project where lots of temp people drive around all over the place with laptops and are testing for call drops and quality of a cell call (all automated) and the most important areas are nasty rough roads and off road terrain - Just to many recent hard drive crashes so I am going to end up with a pile of useless hard drives
·FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI — 9.8 years ago, 13 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[T] [B] #498,475
@498,473 (Nugget Springroll !Uvm54ORbmo)
But every time I update one drive, I have to update the backup, otherwise I still lose stuff.
@previous (Syntax)
I've found that higher capacity drives are more likely to sustain damage in laptops. Originally, my Ubuntu laptop had a 40GB hard drive (this was my first laptop, I wasn't as careful as I probably should have been) I had several minor drops and jarrs but the drive was fine until one day when I was in a hurry and forgot to zip my laptop case. I grabbed the handle and was running out of my room and the case cleared the edge of my bed and then the computer fell right out and hit the carpet hard, leaving rugburn on the corner of the computer. After that, I noticed errors in the mp3 files I had loaded onto the computer right after getting it set up. I don't remember anymore if the computer had been off before I put it in the case or if it was still in the shutdown sequence. I later replaced the HD with a 320GB one, and found that system checks after minor drops would find errors that had to be fixed.
·Nugget Springroll !Uvm54ORbmo (OP) — 9.8 years ago, 1 hour later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #498,476
@previous (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
The point is you dun lose ALL
If you want to keep your lose to minimum you gotta move your lazy ass and do backup update yaw
·Syntax — 9.8 years ago, 1 minute later, 3 hours after the original post[T] [B] #498,477
@498,475 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
Shock of shocks to look up the Flying distance of head to disk on 320GB HD 3 nanometres
They do some tricky shit to make sure there is an active air bearing buttttt on shut down as it slows down it sure wood be susceptible to shock and CRASH n Burn -
+Bat Nugget is !GrateABlug — 9.8 years ago, 11 hours later, 15 hours after the original post[T] [B] #498,485
@498,471 (FuckAlms !vX8K53rFBI)
I have an 80GB Seagate IDE drive from the early 2000s, That still works.
+Anonymous E — 9.8 years ago, 1 hour later, 16 hours after the original post[T] [B] #498,490
> Just buy another* computer already
Start a new topic to continue this conversation.
Or browse the latest topics.