Drive Failure

[Mik]

I'm not terribly surprised. But they're still way faster.

[George K]

Just thinking about it, of the dozens and dozens of spinning-platter hard drives I've had since 1992, I think I've had 2-3 die of a hardware failure. Software issues, sure, but nothing a reformat wouldn't fix.

[Klaus]

@george-k said in Drive Failure:

I think I've had 2-3 die of a hardware failure. Software issues, sure, but nothing a reformat wouldn't fix.

Hu? Software problem or hardware problem - which one was it?

[George K]

@klaus said in Drive Failure:

Software problem or hardware problem

Hardware.

[89th]

@mik said in Drive Failure:

I'm not terribly surprised. But they're still way faster.

And quieter, too.

And since they're faster (and also lighter, more portable) it's easy to back up one to another in the (rare) event of a SSD failure.

[xenon]

I just bit the bullet and did cloud storage. I don't like the privacy implications... but my life isn't that interesting either.

[George K]

@xenon said in Drive Failure:

I just bit the bullet and did cloud storage. I don't like the privacy implications... but my life isn't that interesting either.

Who did you go with?

Mac Fanboi that I am, I'm using iCloud.

[xenon]

@george-k said in Drive Failure:

@xenon said in Drive Failure:

I just bit the bullet and did cloud storage. I don't like the privacy implications... but my life isn't that interesting either.

Who did you go with?

Mac Fanboi that I am, I'm using iCloud.

Embarrassingly, I'm paying for both right now. We were on Google Photos, then I decided to switch to Mac because we're on iphones.

But I've been reluctant to sever the google photos connection because we like their interface better, it has genuinely good picture searching features (which is creepy) and I have a lot of my stuff in google drive.

I dunno - haven't made a decision yet.

[89th]

@george-k said in Drive Failure:

@xenon said in Drive Failure:

I just bit the bullet and did cloud storage. I don't like the privacy implications... but my life isn't that interesting either.

Who did you go with?

Mac Fanboi that I am, I'm using iCloud.

I use One Drive mostly now... seems to be clear (and easy) to see what has synced, what has been stored locally, etc.

[taiwan_girl]

interesting. I would have thought SSD would be much better. I do not use cloud yet. Back everything up to a hard drive.