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The valuable data is backed up properly. And a laptop is usually a secondary computer i.e. there’s not much there to begin with. But I don’t like to lose any d
by Const-me 4y ago
The valuable data is backed up properly. And a laptop is usually a secondary computer i.e. there’s not much there to begin with.
But I don’t like to lose any data at all if avoidable, no matter how unimportant that data is. I still keep VHD disk images from these 3 old laptops, thanks to nearly exponential decline of disk costs per TB.
- adiM 4y ago> And a laptop is usually a secondary computer Definitely not true. For most college students, a laptop is their only computer.
- Const-me 4y agoMy comment was about my own use cases. As for students, I think repairability is even more important for them. Sometimes laptops are stolen or destroyed completely like dropped into the sea, for that they need to backup data. But I think these cases are rare. Displays, hinges, and motherboards fail way more often, IMO. It’s nice to be able to recover data by moving SSD from the broken laptop into a USB3 enclosure, these enclosures are sold for $20-40. Another good option is getting another laptop based on the same chipset, and simply replacing the disk. None of these options are available for laptops with soldered SSDs.