[conspire] Replacement Computer Was: 3rd Master Hard Disk Error

[Tony Godshall]

Ummm, I've bought 4-5tb in USB 3.1 for ~$99 at Costco



On Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 12:51 PM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:

> We have to remember that the physics for all hard drives even before there
> were 8" floppy disks was oxides of iron and similar metals.
>
> The memory hierarchy concept continues.  $100 can buy:
> *  16 GB DDR4
> *  500GB USB 3.1
> *  2TB HDD with 128MB cache SATA
>
> Also, 8GB RAM is "typical" for laptops on the market today.
>
>
> On the topic of disk drives.  Previously I had reported that the Seagate
> Disk diagnostic did not run under Windows.  I have since discovered that it
> requires rebooting the system.  Then it runs all the time in the
> background.  In contrast the WD disk diagnostic for Windows runs when you
> invoke it and then quits.  Both tools will recognize SG, WD and Toshiba
> Drives.  They can read the S.M.A.R.T. information and have a menu for
> several other tests on a specified drive.
>
> In the near future, I will try the SG bootable USB diagnostic.  If it
> works, it will go with the recovery drives and data back up in a different
> room.
>
> A few years ago, I bought 1 TB HDD with 64?GB cache.  After a couple of
> reboots, the time to boot Linux went from ~30 seconds to under 5 seconds.
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, November 30, 2018, 12:54:52 PM PST, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <
> deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:
>
>
> To make Rick's point: when we switched from MacBook Pros with spinning
> rust :) to MacBook Airs with SSDs about five years ago, we were surprised
> how much faster our machines were even though the CPU was so much less
> powerful.
>
> I don't think I could go back to a primary drive that was a hard drive.
>
> --
>   Deirdre Saoirse Moen
>   deirdre at deirdre.net
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, at 1:53 AM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Seriously:  Try _an SSD_ in the new Lenovo.  You'll never settle for
> > spinning rust again, after you've seen the huge performance difference.
> > Plus, they're utterly silent, draw far less power, emit essentially no
> > heat, and reduce system weight compared to spinning rust (hard drives).
> >
> > But really, it's the insane performance difference that will turn your
> > head.
>
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