I HATE MY LIFE | Part Two Of The SSHD Saga

"Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura" (sundowne36) 09/03/2015 at 04:50 • Filed to: The SSHD Saga

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To put it quite simply, my !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! was dead. (A tombstone will be made in its honor, soon.) Thankfully, I grabbed whatever data that I needed off of it (and deleted the rest), though this does leave me with a bit of a problem:

What drive do I need now?

So until I could find a suitable drive, I was stuck with a sad excuse of an SSHD that was so slow Don Vito could run 250 laps around it before you’d hear the Windows Start-up jingle.

I might have to see if it’s possible on an RMA....

... Nope.

$50 to ship for RMA.

Fifty.

Freaking.

Dollars.

What the hell, WD. I really shouldn’t have to hold onto a metal of inconvenience when it’s still under warranty.

AndyG_UK > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/03/2015 at 05:21

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I had a Seagate hybrid drive die prematurely, sooner than any standard HDD or SSD has ever died on me (only had one SSD die, an early OCZ Vertex and at least it failed in safe\read only mode), I never noticed any performance improvement from a normal (7200rpm) laptop HDD anyway. It’s been replaced with 250gb SSD now in my old HP laptop and it’s like a new computer, everything is stored on the 8tb raid on my home server anyway these days!

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > AndyG_UK 09/03/2015 at 05:32

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If experience taught me anything, owning an external/RAID HDD saved my bacon.

That being said, I would never buy a Seagate ever again after witnessing a colleague’s Momentus XT fail in the most spectacular fashion deemed possible.

KirkyV > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/03/2015 at 05:33

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I’m not sure what kind of setup you’re running, but my preferred approach is a full-on SSD - at least 256GB, but as large as you can afford, really - for the OS and your applications/games, and then some regular hard drives for your media. I have a Samsung 840 EVO for my OS, and two 2 TB 7200RPM drives for everything else. This all came about after my old OS drive - an ancient 500GB 5200RPM hard drive - started making the most alarming grinding noise.

I’m torn between replacing the ancient HDD in my old MacBook Pro with an SSD, and getting a whole new laptop. On the one hand, replacing the drive would get me a dramatically more usable laptop for not a lot of money, but on the other, I really want something with better battery life, a better screen, and a lot less weight/size.

spanfucker retire bitch > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/03/2015 at 09:16

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Those 850 EVO SSDs are pretty god damn cheap. I picked up a 512GB one for like 170 dollars. A 256GB goes for even less.

Not sure what your storage needs are, but if you can fit it onto a single SSD, I’d do it.

Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > spanfucker retire bitch 09/03/2015 at 13:04

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spanfucker retire bitch > Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura 09/03/2015 at 13:12

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Satoshi "Zipang" Katsura > spanfucker retire bitch 09/03/2015 at 13:27

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Update’ll be soon.