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<div>First, I am thankful for all of the constructive comments. <br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>I did a little "window shopping" for components. If I open my box and put in new motherboard, new CPU, RAM and storage, I can expect to spend $500 - 600. That will get me more cores and more storage than I had before.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>One area that really affects the price is storage. <br clear="none"></div><div>2T HDD $50</div><div>4T HDD $75</div><div>2T SSD $250-350<br clear="none"></div><div>I've seen the benefit of cache on a HDD, but I need some more reason for the delta dollars.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>Now if instead I get a laptop, I get a new display, keyboard, power supply and case which I don't really need.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>+++</div><div>Now regarding "failing drive". <br></div><div>Booting Debian has become problematic. / is on the "bad drive".</div><div><br></div><div>On two different computers, the SeagateToolKit says "No device mounted"</div><div>On both computers the WD Data Lifeguard recognizes all of the devices. Even found SSD on USB port.</div><div><br></div><div>When I am 110% sure that I have absolutely all of the important data files safely copied, I will try more tests including write 0's.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br clear="none"></div>
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On Wednesday, November 21, 2018, 12:49:39 PM PST, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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<div>Quoting Tony Godshall (<a shape="rect" href="mailto:togo@of.net" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">togo@of.net</a>):<div class="ydpdb2bc808yiv0837398708ydp7a500609yqt3604202446" id="ydpdb2bc808yiv0837398708ydp7a500609yqtfd49802"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">> I would go with modern SSD and an IDE adapter (msata-ide) over buying<br clear="none">> actual legacy IDE drives.</div><br clear="none"><br clear="none">There was no real question of Paul being in the market for a new PATA<br clear="none">('IDE') drive, even if the (allegedly) failing drive had been PATA,<br clear="none">which it wasn't. If that _had_ been the case, and he wanted to replace<br clear="none">the (allegedly) failing PATA drive, the logical replacement would have<br clear="none">been a second, large, modern SATA drive on the motherboard's second <br clear="none">SATA connector, not anything new including an mSATA-to-PATA adapter on<br clear="none">either of the two PATA connectors. Because KISS.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">In addition, the guess that the drive is failing does not IMO seem<br clear="none">well-supported. The obvious thing Paul should try is the Seagate<br clear="none">Tools's so-called 'zero fill erase option', which I mentioned upthread.<br clear="none">This is, I gather, Seagate's current implementation for IDE of the<br clear="none">traditional low-level format routine.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I mention this because one should always attempt to recondition<br clear="none">allegedly failing hard drives with low-level formatting before giving up<br clear="none">on them, unless there is some separate reason for getting rid of them,<br clear="none">like they're ridiculously small and/or slow for the current year's<br clear="none">needs, or they keep emitting smoke, or they are now cruising at a<br clear="none">constant zero RPM.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">But, as you say, I would definitely consider SSDs first if pondering a<br clear="none">drive replacement in preference to a new hard drive. The benefits are<br clear="none">ludicrously large.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">conspire mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="mailto:conspire@linuxmafia.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">conspire@linuxmafia.com</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/conspire</a><div class="ydpdb2bc808yiv0837398708ydp7a500609yqt3604202446" id="ydpdb2bc808yiv0837398708ydp7a500609yqtfd73573"><br clear="none"></div></div>
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