Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2015/12/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 23 Dec 2015, at 16:22, Larry Zeitlin via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> > wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information