timeshifter
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Still curious about this???
HDD Mechanical Start Failures
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The first one would not boot - had a couple of additional hard drives in the case and one of them had died which prevented boot up.
The 2nd one had bad performance, not sure what the source was/is, but I'm replacing the HDD with an SSD when it finally gets here.
I always check the hard drives on any machine I service, so that's how I discovered this "error".
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Why did it take so long for SSD to come on the horizon it's only flash memory was it because prices had to come down.
The reality now is that what took 4 or 5 decades to perfect the big 3 spinner makers are not making many and now any manufacturer can easily make SSD's.
I guess they made them worse at the end I had a spinner in my laptop for 7 years it was a thicker one and still good the shinny ones barely lasted a year
The reality now is that what took 4 or 5 decades to perfect the big 3 spinner makers are not making many and now any manufacturer can easily make SSD's.
I guess they made them worse at the end I had a spinner in my laptop for 7 years it was a thicker one and still good the shinny ones barely lasted a year
Markverhyden
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I'm sure you were getting paid some money as well..... Thats a great motivator......
Markverhyden
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He lives in Hawaii. Lot's things grow out there but I don't believe I've heard they have an SSD shrub or tree. So everything get shipped in via container.
johnrobert
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I have been there a few times the food was expensive, my brother lives there he says its almost cheaper to eat out
NviGate Systems
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Early laptop and desktop drives were horrible. My first ever HDD I "bought" was a Fujitsu, that was in the 90's. Basically this local PC shop had a bin of garbage stuff, prices ranged from $5-10 for dead drives etc. I saw a 250MB Fujitsu drive and the date looked recent. Bought it for $10, took it home, called Fujitsu and got an RMA number. I would never have afforded a 250MB in the 90's. That drive died couple months later, they sent a 500MB. That one died, I got a 1GB. Don't recall what Happened after that.
In contrast, my 20MB MFM drive although loud and irritating, just kept going. I even opened it to have a look inside, you know curious kid who didn't know much.
When multi gig drives came out, quality started to improve. I've seen some older 80GB drives that just refuse to die.
Today some mechanical drives are just cheaply made. They have had a few years to perfect being cheap.
SSD is now in the same boat. Except when the SSD dies, it let's the magic smoke out. At least a platter could be recovered.
Point is, not all new shiny tech is as good as it looks.
I order EVERYTHING online from Amazon and occasionally from Newegg. There is a BestBuy and an Officemax here on Oahu, but they don't stock much in the way of Samsung SSDS (my preferred brand).
And yes, there is very little manufacturing here in the islands, so other than local agriculture, everything arrives via airfreight or ship. And for shipping, everything has to be on a US flag ship, so stuff from the far east goes to LA and then gets transferred to another ship to bring it to Hawaii. Stupid thing called the "Jones Act" from long ago to preserve America's maritime industry. And our congress people seem to think its a wonderful thing. We also have what's know as a General Excise Tax, where goods are taxed each step of the distribution process so we end up paying more in taxes on goods we purchase. We refer to this as "the price of paradise".
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