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mr_lebowski

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7. That's very odd ... hopefully it's not actually the laptop ...

Reply to BootinUp (Original post)

Thu Nov 21, 2019, 02:45 AM

Nov 2019

7 y.o. is pretty old for a lappie. Could be your HD controller failing ... hopefully not though.

SSD is kinda a no-brainer for a laptop at this point, but I will say I have 4 HD's in my desktop ... 3 spinners that are 7-10 y.o. and one SSD ... which I just replaced after about 4 years.

They DEFINITELY wear out ... esp. when used as a System drive. In my case, much faster than my less-used spinners which are still going strong.

And they tend to die pretty sudden-like. Backups are key

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