Posted on 04/08/2015 11:50:49 AM PDT by Chickensoup
I know that deep in my heart.
“The machine itself might last forever, but all the desktops I have bought recently have had hard drive failures after about 3-4 years. The new high capacity hard drives just multiply the problems with bad sectors that never got properly addressed.”
I have NEVER had a hard drive failure on a desktop at home or at work in over 30 years of computing. The only failure I have had was a laptop and that was because I packed it into a suitcase going on a cruise. I even dropped a laptop from desk level once. The screen connectors lost connection but it worked fine with a monitor plugged in.
“I have NEVER had a hard drive failure on a desktop at home or at work in over 30 years of computing.”
Well, I am not talking about total failures. I’m really talking about the multiplying problem of bad sectors, which gets worse as the capacity of the drive increases. More bad sectors = higher probability one of those bad sectors will affect a system file = more chance the drive won’t boot.
As long as it can still boot, most people won’t notice much of a problem, just the occasion prompt to run scandisk, but the problem is definitely worse with high capacity drives than the older ones.
I did have a HDD failure on my computer (Win Vista) a few years ago, had to install a whole new HDD and on that I installed Ubuntu.
Dell Official Store USA
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Laptops-Netbooks-/175672/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&_ssn=dell-official-store-usa-refurbished
Pardon the sloppy typing. My machine was a Dell Latitude E6430. These also come with Windows 7 Professional.
Touchscreen is never REQUIRED.
I install ‘Classic Start Page’ - for my clients on Windows 8.0.
It’s a good thing!
thank you
I think you must mean one laptop has a SATA drive and the other has a SSD drive.
I has a Asus laptop with Win 7 - 64 bit and a SSD 256 gb drive, and I am pleased.
What is killing your laptop? If its just the drive, buy a small ssd from best buy etc pop it in and build a W10 system so you’ll be ahead of the curve when w7-8.1 get upgraded for free around September. Then you could buy a permanent system in October knowing exactly what you want. Another reason to wait is the next gen systems just being released are losing all ports other then USB 3.1. You won’t even have a power chord. So anything you buy in the next few months will be really cheap come September/oct.
True, the SSD’s are pricey, so it’s becomes a compromise.
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