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

[Tony Godshall]

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On Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 6:14 PM Tony Godshall <apgodshall at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ummm, I've bought 4-5tb in USB 3.1 for ~$99 at Costco
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> On Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 12:51 PM paulz at ieee.org <paulz at ieee.org> wrote:
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>> 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
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>> Also, 8GB RAM is "typical" for laptops on the market today.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> On Friday, November 30, 2018, 12:54:52 PM PST, Deirdre Saoirse Moen <
>> deirdre at deirdre.net> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I don't think I could go back to a primary drive that was a hard drive.
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>> --
>>   Deirdre Saoirse Moen
>>   deirdre at deirdre.net
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>> 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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