Posted on 08/04/2021 3:34:04 AM PDT by CptnObvious
Sounds like you need to set your Beeber to Stune!
Ridiculous. All you have t do is plug in a new batch of paper punch cards if you run out of memory.
I read it and still have to freeping idea what you are talking about.
What a hard drive is and what phone use are completely different things, for one.
For another, there is no thing called a ‘SPARES’. You made that up.
Nothing to this. Go back to your coffee.
You also need to rotate the platters so they wear evenly...
This reads as though it was originally written in a language other than English.
Or perhaps the poster is having some sort of medical issue.
I see. So it is really not so much a ‘ticking time bomb’ as this poster breathlessly proclaimed, but more of a ‘yeah stuff breaks eventually’. :^)
I agree. Nothing to this, except ‘yeah stuff breaks eventually’.
Even our sun.
TICKING TIME BOMB! The sun will eventually run out of spare fuel! Then, KABOOM!
I’m shocked your Windows 98 PC was able to post this. It might be time to upgrade.
Dumb article. But on the other hand, if you have data on USB drives (or flash of any kind) if you leave it unplugged for years it will slowly fade away....(unlike a hard drive)....Beware....people erroneously think they are permanent.
1. There are spare sectors on a disk. They're managed both at the hardware level (by the disk controller built into the hardware of the hard drive) and by the OS too. They are used to swap out whenever you have a bad sector on your disk.
2. They aren't a "ticking time bomb". But they do fail. Usually when you fail to boot up (or do some other disk operation) because of "sector failure", by the time you see that error the OS has already tried to swap out the data on the bad sector with data on the good sector. Usually the bad sector is noticed during the writing process, not the reading process. So the bad sector is detected before you need that data, the data you need written is written to another sector, and that sector is flagged as bad and not used. You never know this happens most of the time.
3. Defragging, pretty much a thing of the past. Don't defrag your new SSD drives. There's no point. And you almost never have to manually defrag your old HDD drives because the OS does that for you automatically. Yes, there was a time when defragging a few times a year would improve performance. But those days are gone.
4. The ticking time bomb you need to worry about is the end of your life on earth. You'll either die or Jesus will return, you don't know when either of those will happen, and at that point there will be no, "Wait a second. Let me restore from my external hard drive or my cloud storage so I can change a few things before we move on." And Jesus is more than just a backup plan. He's the forward plan.
Great point. Thanks for posting. Few acknowledge the problem.
Why it’s Y2K all over again. /s
I'm pretty sure ifinnegan was being sarcastic. :-)
If so I apologize but it’s sometimes hard to tell...
It can be a liberating experience to have all that crap instantly gone, forcing you to start all over again with a nice clean system.
You can have the really important stuff (the 1%) backed up to cloud storage for a few dollars a month. When you get your new device, just pull it on down.
The Dirty Ticking Time Bomb of the appliance industry is About to Come Out!
The Refrigerator Manufacturers all know it. The compressor producers have all known it. But for decades the Dirty Ticking Time Bomb of Food Cooling is about to come out.
It does not matter whether you have a Kenmore, Frost King, Frigidaire or even a Whirlpool, the Ticking Time Bomb is in your kitchen and you probably never knew it.
It is under the heading of SPACE. Specifically when your refrigerator runs out of it.
And a couple of areas on your shelves. If a shelf or drawer is full, typically it’s all over for the food item that will not fit. KAPOW!!
Your food item is DEAD AND GONE. Your leftover subway sub from lunch is Kaput. The half container of 2% cottage cheese is ROTTEN and not recoverable.
In a Nutshell, the Time Bomb is WHEN, NOT IF, YOU RUN OUT OF “SPACE” and the next SHELF IS CRITICAL. KABOOM!!
It does not matter what type of refrigerator it is. Whether it is a small dorm fridge, a side by side fridge, or even the new French Door models. THE TICKING TIME BOMB IS THERE.
For when the shelves are full, God only knows what will happen.
And what the industry is praying for, is that you keep buying the new stuff so that the old stuff, which is filling up, is gone in time before the TIME BOMBS start Going Off.
BUT THERE IS GOOD NEWS:
Much of the appliance industry has standardized the computer/television screen on the door models so that the user can know before hand that the problem is approaching.
And the users are getting ready to be able to watch out for the “shelves and drawers are full” Time Bombs.
For instance, a Maytag major update U812, scheduled for the October/November 2029 time frame. Has a feature which can report the “Territory” left on a middle shelf. And I’m guessing they are referring to, is the Space left on the Drawer.
From there, it is only one step, to give a warning message “2% area left on C-enter shelf:” or something like that.
Owners, in general, have been so good that few have experienced THE BOMB. And a Few folks have used CLEANING OUT on their system volumes to protect themselves.
But this has been a silent killer, nobody wants to talk about. But is finally being addressed … by me … here … you’re welcome.
This is a ridiculous post, honestly. Every drive will fail—this has always been the case. Only a bleeding idiot would fail to backup his data.
Pure crock of ...
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