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I've got to this post while looking for a SSD online... The one in my fabulous laptop is dying after less than 6 months of light usage! Before I decided to jump into the 21st century, I had a modest Toshiba Satellite, now over 8 y.o. That magnetic drive, as slow as it might be, has gone thru several OS-s, restores and thousands of installed programs over the years without a glitch! And it’s still doing its job faithfully to this day…
My new system is a Dell Precision M4800, equipped with an I7@2.8GHz and 32GB RAM, and came with a 256GB LITEON IT SSD drive. Impressive performance! I’ve replaced the DVD drive (useless) with a second (magnetic) 1TB drive, for data, some programs, virtual machines, etc. On SSD – just the Win7/64 and a handful of programs. By the way: what is the point to have the system booting in 10 seconds and then having the pagefile, most programs and redirecting access to a slower drive?!
I’ve noticed recently the system becoming unresponsive, while furiously accessing the HD… After days of research (the S.M.A.R.T. system proved to be a S.T.U.P.I.D. joke!), it turned out to be a failing SSD, which gave I/O errors. I’ve only used this laptop for probably 6 months, took all precautions to reduce usage of SSD. Spent days doing this – an unnecessary process on a regular drive – while enjoying the luxury of having a second drive in my laptop…
I’m not sure if I should buy a new SSD or a magnetic one… I’m old school: if I have to choose between reliability and speed/performance, I ALWAYS choose reliability!
It’s not about loss of data: I have backups, and most of it (even programs) reside on the magnetic drive anyway. It is about the loss of a drive, a drive deemed to die by design! It is about trust and the uneasy feeling that using the drive is like burning a candle!
This is in tune with where everything else is going (i.e. Win10, Office 365, etc.): you buy something, but not really own it (not for a long time, anyway). You pay a subscription. It would be a subscription, this time for hardware. It is made to expire, and every few years (or months) you have to renew it, by buying a new (expensive) drive.
Anyway, I might be subjective and maybe just an unlucky, not a typical case.
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Luschan wrote: what is the point to have the system booting in 10 seconds and then having the pagefile, most programs and redirecting access to a slower drive?!
You're right: you'll boot up at most maybe five times a day, if that much, so the total time saved doesn't add up to much. However, accessing the file system or calling system functions really add up to a significant amount of time!
As for page file: don't put it on the SSD if you can avoid it. Either up your RAM to the point where you don't need one, or move it to a mechanical drive.
More generally, if you don't want to fully switch to SSD, here's a guide to setting up your Windows system to properly manage your SSD. You can find many similar guides on the web.
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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So I was just doing some online clothing shopping when I noticed a shirt of over €500!
An actual Versace.
The shirt goes well with other Versace clothing priced well over €1000.
Washing instructions: chemical.
So we have a pretty basic (dare I say ugly) t-shirt that's impossible to clean and which costs over ten times more than a regular t-shirt (up to fifty if you go for a basic t-shirt).
And people are actually happy with it.
People are weird
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Versace died in 97, so, nooo, it's not an ACTUAL Versace.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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Yeah, but the stitching, man!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Frankenstein's Monster agrees
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Versace is nothing compare to Tom Ford. The shoe prices are so expensive makes you think is this forever that can't be worn-out.
And he is alive too.
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Looking at the page, that looks like $1090 for one sandal! And most people have to outfit two feet!
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ajhampson wrote: And most people have to outfit two feet! That's why it's so expensive. Most shops offer two sandals, so finding a single one is hard and therefore it's expensive when you finally find it
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The lottery isn't the only idiot tax.
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modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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I think the winners might disagree
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What!? You think that winners would argue that the lottery is the only idiot tax.
(I'm often lambasted as being far too literal - but a man's gotta have fun)
Owing to the way a lottery works, (naturally) winners are in the stunning minority. Even then a large proportion of them go on to have train-wrecks for a life afterwards. To supply a common quote Quote: Nearly 70% of lottery winners end up broke within seven years.
I dont imagine it's the case, but if you're not familiar with the tales of misery that typically follow lottery winners, try a google for "statistics divorced dead lottery"
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That's why I'm perfectly happy with Tommy Hilfiger T-Shirts. Cotton, washable, fits, and all that for about 30CHF. Not cheap, but from the shirts quality I can tell they're going to live more than a mere year.
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Oh, but Dahling! When it gets dirty, you give it to the help!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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My grandpa was the first to tell me, "There's a sucker born every day."
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Your grandpa was an optimist
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Go shopping in Neiman Marcus sometime. (That's a big store in Big D*)
*Can you name the tune?
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GenJerDan wrote: Neiman Marcus Who?
GenJerDan wrote: Big D Where?
GenJerDan wrote: Can you name the tune? What?
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A very expensive clothing store in Dallas.
My wife and I stopped into the "Last Chance" store they have, where clothes that are ones and two left over from the regular stock, or otherwise need to be gotten rid of just to clear space, etc.
One dress she looked at, which was heavily discounted for quick sale, was $2500.
(You can search YouTube for Allan Sherman's song "Me" )
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GenJerDan wrote: One dress she looked at, which was heavily discounted for quick sale, was $2500. I always wonder how that stuff sells at all, let alone quick
GenJerDan wrote: You can search YouTube for Allan Sherman's song "Me" Ah... Never heard of him, the song, the shop, or Big D.
I've heard of Dallas though
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My brand spanking new work laptop just died. No warning. Simply shut down. The SSD is empty and unrecoverable (apparently) so everything I did this morning is gone. Luckily I back stuff up to my network share so at least I can go back to where I was on Friday. Still, pretty p'd off as also takes a day to reinstall everything.
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Aren't you at least going to throw the manufacturer under the bus?
There are two types of people in this world: those that pronounce GIF with a soft G, and those who do not deserve to speak words, ever.
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