Reason to buy new Solid State Drive?
By
ChristopherRobin,
Posted on: 2010-03-18 20:50 in Multi-Media Fan Creations
You don't need a real reason to buy one. It's like chocolate. If you want it, you just have to get it. 
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I have been wanting one, but was hoping to pay CR to build me one someday... now it's kind of falling into my lap, but ugh... the reinstall, somebody shoot me.
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I read the painful details and I am not sure I understand what exactly happened? |
Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
Well because the Seagate people took some coupling off the back of my hard drive, so intead of running at 1.5 speed, it was burning through it's lifespan at 3.0.... As such I declare myself to be , Cursed by the Computer Gods!
click for painful details... Anyway, plans are being set in motion to fix it by the weekend, thanks to a very generous wife, two close friends, and my techie son, who will do the reinstall for me tomorrow night. I just have to make kebabs for all of them... fixing puters is hungry work! See you Monday folks. LJ |
The platters inside a hard drive (where all the data is stored) are in a hermetically sealed environment and kept in a partial vacum... there really is no way for dust to get in an kill a drive short of breaking the seal/cracking it open. I suppose dust can clog all the fans in a computer causing a system to overheat but this can fairly easily be remedied and shouldn't cause data loss.
More often than not when you cannot access your data it's due to the OS or some software getting corrupted... the data is usually still there.
Recovering data can be very time consuming/expensive though and so most just buy a new drive and restore if they have a good recent backup or reinstall if they do not... or panic and call someone like me to come along and save their stuffz.
P.S. From a hardware standpoint there is no difference between the way a Mac and a PC store data. Apple does not make their own hard drives anymore than they make monitors or videocards and a Mac uses the same parts that a PC does just a different and proprietary Operating System. You should still have a good system for regular backups. **takes off myth debunking hat.**
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Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
I have been wanting one, but was hoping to pay CR to build me one someday... now it's kind of falling into my lap, but ugh... the reinstall, somebody shoot me.
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If you are talking about just buying a solid state drive choose wisely my friend most of the ones flooding the market stink or just are not worth the premium being charged for them.
Granted I am pickier than most when it comes to choosing parts (
) but I would recommend you do a little research and if possible... 1. Get one that has a good controller like the Intel or the Indilinx Barefoot etc etc
2. Supports the TRIM command (especially if you are now or will be upgrading to Windows7) or at the very least has a solid wiper/trash collection tool.
3. Buy from a reputable company
There are also several things you can do to optimize a system for working with a SSD like disable any disk defragmentation or re-ordering apps (they are useless to a SSD and will cause needless wear and tear over time) for example... etc etc
Hey do I get Kabobs now too?
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Originally Posted by DarkEther
You don't need a real reason to buy one. It's like chocolate. If you want it, you just have to get it.
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
I'll let CR fill in the numbers and tech info...
...BUT coming from an extremely happy customer, "let CR build it for you!!!" aka DOOO EEETTT!!! |
Well because the Seagate people took some coupling off the back of my hard drive, so intead of running at 1.5 speed, it was burning through it's lifespan at 3.0.... As such I declare myself to be , Cursed by the Computer Gods!
click for painful details...
Anyway, plans are being set in motion to fix it by the weekend, thanks to a very generous wife, two close friends, and my techie son, who will do the reinstall for me tomorrow night.
I just have to make kebabs for all of them... fixing puters is hungry work!
See you Monday folks.
LJ