[Leica] Hard drives

[Nathan Wajsman]

Two years sounds awfully short, or you are really using them hard. I just had my first HD beginning to go flaky in my iMac after 7 years of daily use. I did replace it with an SSD, yes. Definitely the way to go, both from the point of view of durability and speed.

Cheers,
Nathan

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> On 23 Dec 2015, at 16:22, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
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> Hard drives have a limited life span. Compared to floppy discs they hold a phenomenal amount of information but because they contain moving parts they wear out. For me drives last about two years of reasonably hard use. I have had about five drive failures in assorted equipment in the last ten years. Surprisingly constant use does not appreciably alter the failure rate. The lubricants dry up in a stored drive almost as fast as they do in a spinning one. According to my friends in the computer industry, solid state storage is the way to go, The other day I bought a 120 GB high speed thumb drive for about $50 at a computer store. If Edward Snowdon could store years of CIA and diplomatic messages on a cheap thumb drive I guess it is good enough for my pictures.
> Larry Z
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