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Any laptop with a mechanical hard drive makes my hair stand on its end. In 2014, it's just an unnecessary liability. When my girlfriend and I started getting s

by GuiA 13y ago

Any laptop with a mechanical hard drive makes my hair stand on its end. In 2014, it's just an unnecessary liability. When my girlfriend and I started getting serious a few years back, the first thing I did was to replace her aging MacBook Pro with a SSD MacBook Air. It was the only way the relationship could move forward.

droidist2 13y ago
Interesting, I bought my wife a Hitachi and it improved the relationship.
- Brian-Puccio 13y ago
  I see what you did there.
- atYevP 13y ago
  If you build good hardware...you build good hardware.
brianwski 13y ago
I love love LOVE the SSD drive in my laptop for performance reasons (I can't ever go back, seriously). Emotionally I'm also glad it doesn't have spinning parts anymore, but in the end your laptop can still get stolen or break or fail. No matter what, in 100 percent of all situations, you need a backup. (Yes, I work at Backblaze, but seriously, you don't have to use our product, JUST USE SOMETHING!!)
- GuiA 13y ago
  Yes, I also forced her to get a Dropbox account. That's how she knew the relationship was getting serious.
  - freshyill 13y ago
    I helped my in-laws set up a new iMac last fall (an upgrade from their ancient Dell tower running XP) and made sure to install Dropbox. Sure they may never use it, but it's only a matter of time until I need to do some form of tech support, and it's going to make my life immeasurably easier.
  - officemonkey 13y ago
    In 1999, I knew my new girlfriend was the right one for me when she was excited about one of those fancy "Airports" from Apple. That Christmas I bought her a Palm IIIx. We've been married for a dozen years.
- gedrap 13y ago
  Just signed up for BB :)
  - atYevP 13y ago
    Nice!
freshyill 13y ago
That's more or less exactly how my wife (then girlfriend) got this MacBook. Except replace "aging MacBook Pro" with "2004-era eMachines tower from Walmart". I gave it to her in 2008, when it was still a fairly decent machine, but that junky eMachine was already junk. I had actually forgotten about that old computer until I actually spotted it in some of the photos I was recovering over the weekend. And for what it's worth, last Thursday, before all of this happened, I had brought up off-site backups, with Backblaze in mind.
ricardobeat 13y ago
SSDs have a slightly higher failure rate than mechanical drives, and when failed are mostly unrecoverable. Here is a report of massive failure rates (>50%) with OCZ drives: http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html Right now the safest thing to do is to store at multiple cloud providers, where they have proper measures to manage disk failures.

by GuiA 13y ago

droidist2 13y ago

Interesting, I bought my wife a Hitachi and it improved the relationship.

Brian-Puccio 13y ago
I see what you did there.
atYevP 13y ago
If you build good hardware...you build good hardware.

brianwski 13y ago

I love love LOVE the SSD drive in my laptop for performance reasons (I can't ever go back, seriously). Emotionally I'm also glad it doesn't have spinning parts anymore, but in the end your laptop can still get stolen or break or fail. No matter what, in 100 percent of all situations, you need a backup. (Yes, I work at Backblaze, but seriously, you don't have to use our product, JUST USE SOMETHING!!)

GuiA 13y ago
Yes, I also forced her to get a Dropbox account. That's how she knew the relationship was getting serious.
- freshyill 13y ago
  I helped my in-laws set up a new iMac last fall (an upgrade from their ancient Dell tower running XP) and made sure to install Dropbox. Sure they may never use it, but it's only a matter of time until I need to do some form of tech support, and it's going to make my life immeasurably easier.
- officemonkey 13y ago
  In 1999, I knew my new girlfriend was the right one for me when she was excited about one of those fancy "Airports" from Apple. That Christmas I bought her a Palm IIIx. We've been married for a dozen years.
gedrap 13y ago
Just signed up for BB :)
- atYevP 13y ago
  Nice!

freshyill 13y ago

That's more or less exactly how my wife (then girlfriend) got this MacBook. Except replace "aging MacBook Pro" with "2004-era eMachines tower from Walmart". I gave it to her in 2008, when it was still a fairly decent machine, but that junky eMachine was already junk. I had actually forgotten about that old computer until I actually spotted it in some of the photos I was recovering over the weekend. And for what it's worth, last Thursday, before all of this happened, I had brought up off-site backups, with Backblaze in mind.

ricardobeat 13y ago

SSDs have a slightly higher failure rate than mechanical drives, and when failed are mostly unrecoverable. Here is a report of massive failure rates (>50%) with OCZ drives: http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html Right now the safest thing to do is to store at multiple cloud providers, where they have proper measures to manage disk failures.