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On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 05:13:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:43:58 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: |
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> >>>> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel |
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> >>>> quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. |
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> >>> What are you using to get that niformation? |
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> >> smartctl -A /dev/sdX |
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> > 83% after five years of recompiling LO and Chromium, not bad :) |
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> Dang. That makes me feel better about getting one now. Heck, I'm using |
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> a 160GB drive currently for my OS. |
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A hard disk that small is probably also very old, and thus slow. |
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When I was still a poor little student, I used a 500 Gig WD disk as main |
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drive for everything. It came originally from one of my first external |
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enclosures. At some point it started to exhibit failures. |
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By then I was earning my own dough. So I got me a brand-new WD Blue 1 TB. |
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That drive had a speed increase of 150(!) %. IOW, it was 2½ times as fast as |
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the old one. I still have the screenshots from HD Tune from back then. |
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Imagine the speed-up you will get even from an up-to-date harddisk compared |
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to your old veteran. |
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Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ |
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Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. |
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I have a closet full of nothing to wear. |
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