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Must be . Hard to navigate this forum on a tablet .
johnmeyer
Master of the Pit
Better his computer in the hospital than him.
Agree Johnmeyer I think he's still not completely awake from hibernation.
Warren
Warren
Mine was in the hospital for two weeks for what should have taken a couple hours to fix. I had to call and use several impolite words to get them to do anything at all. Then I had to rebuild all my bookmarks, address books and everything that was linked to me as user - which was why I took in there in the first place. All they did was create a new user. Hell, I could do that and I am a dummy.
If you back up everything to the cloud you can get a new computer & just download all your stuff.
Never miss a beat!!
Al
Never miss a beat!!
Al
Getting my “MacBook Pro” back tomorrow.
We thought I downloaded a Virus, but that wasn’t it.
The Hard Drive had a bad spot on it.
They’re putting a new Hard Drive in IT right now——A Solid State one!!
Hopefully I’ll be flying low here tomorrow!!
You guys might not even see me, as I fly by!!!
I’ll be glad to give this POS back to Mrs Bear!!
Bear
We thought I downloaded a Virus, but that wasn’t it.
The Hard Drive had a bad spot on it.
They’re putting a new Hard Drive in IT right now——A Solid State one!!
Hopefully I’ll be flying low here tomorrow!!
You guys might not even see me, as I fly by!!!
I’ll be glad to give this POS back to Mrs Bear!!
Bear
Don't fly to fast that 2 finger may not keep up.
Warren
Warren
Our big ones (iMac 27 & MiniMac) get backed up on our “Time Capsule”, but nothing gets backed up on my MacBook Pro. It should be better than ever with that new Solid State Hard Drive.
We’ll see!!
Bear
Did You get a Hail Storm down there??
We just had one about 15 minutes ago.
Biggest I ever saw here, about a quarter size.
Only lasted about 5 minutes. Couldn’t hear Mrs Bear, and Smokey jumped off my lap & ran to our bedroom & hid under the Bed.
Bear
Nope had storm last night but not today.
Warren
Warren
Inlaws had it in egypt, nothing in Laurys Station.
Yes a solid-state "hard drive" should be much better than spinning a mechanical disk.
Cloud storage has advantages but you have to be able to get to it, if it's still there.
Cloud storage has advantages but you have to be able to get to it, if it's still there.
johnmeyer
Master of the Pit
Since computers were my business, just one quick note on solid state drives (SSDs).
Compared to traditional rotating mechanical disk drives they are better in most ways, but worse in a few other ways.
Better: MUCH faster read; lower power consumption; less heat generated (goes with low power consumption); much more rugged (more likely to survive a hard drop); weigh less; totally quiet.
Worse: Failure mode is not gradual: when it fails, you lose everything. By contrast rotating disk drives often fail gradually, and you almost always have the possibility of recovering some or all of the data, if you are willing to pay a data recovery service. Also worse: much more expensive for the same disk capacity, and really large capacities are still not available.
Solid state drives have fewer write cycles before failure than a rotating disk drive, but most of us will never reach that limit, so this one is more theoretical.
For a laptop or tablet, SSDs are the way to go.
Compared to traditional rotating mechanical disk drives they are better in most ways, but worse in a few other ways.
Better: MUCH faster read; lower power consumption; less heat generated (goes with low power consumption); much more rugged (more likely to survive a hard drop); weigh less; totally quiet.
Worse: Failure mode is not gradual: when it fails, you lose everything. By contrast rotating disk drives often fail gradually, and you almost always have the possibility of recovering some or all of the data, if you are willing to pay a data recovery service. Also worse: much more expensive for the same disk capacity, and really large capacities are still not available.
Solid state drives have fewer write cycles before failure than a rotating disk drive, but most of us will never reach that limit, so this one is more theoretical.
For a laptop or tablet, SSDs are the way to go.
Got it back----Got some bugs to work out, but it's really fast !!
I got some stuff to post, but I want to make sure it's working right before I try to load one with Pictures.
Maybe tomorrow morning.
Bear
I got some stuff to post, but I want to make sure it's working right before I try to load one with Pictures.
Maybe tomorrow morning.
Bear
Glad you are back bear....looking forward to your posts...
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