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Post by rachelcarson1953 on Mar 2, 2018 21:46:43 GMT
gadreel, theoncomingstorm, @miccee, Hey, I am back, with my computer scrubbed clean, and the knowledge that the next time something pops up on my computer, I know the three magic buttons to click. Thanks to all of you who helped walk me through all of this. I am poorer but wiser, now; so many of life's lessons are learned the hard way.
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Post by Arlon10 on Mar 2, 2018 22:24:27 GMT
gadreel , theoncomingstorm , @miccee , Hey, I am back, with my computer scrubbed clean, and the knowledge that the next time something pops up on my computer, I know the three magic buttons to click. Thanks to all of you who helped walk me through all of this. I am poorer but wiser, now; so many of life's lessons are learned the hard way. Do you try ALT+F4 first? That closes the active window only. If the trouble is still there after you close that window then CTRL+ALT+DELETE. You can also try ALT+F4 several times if you have lots of windows open. |
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 2, 2018 23:25:41 GMT
...also now available is the solid state hard drive offering blazing speed and instantaneous login and shutdown. It has no moving parts like those with the spinning disks.
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Post by mslo79 on Mar 3, 2018 12:32:49 GMT
I sure hope you did not pay much $$$ because if you did, you probably got screwed. koskiewiczbut mainly more recent models and the earlier ones were basically crap (not reliable) but a modern one like Samsung 850 EVO 250GB (and the like) should last a long time because it's rated for 75TB of writes before failure occurs which means it's likely going to last most people a easy 10+ years because one could write 20GB per day EVERY SINGLE DAY for 10 years and still not reach 75TB written (hell, tests online shows they go a good amount beyond that before actual failure occurs) and that's a lot of data as the average person likely won't write anywhere near that amount of data to it. even for those who might have moderate amount of data writing I would recommend getting a regular hard drive and using that for the large data writes and they are cheap enough to with 2TB being about $50 and a 4TB being around $100. but for general important data storage I would likely stick to a regular hard drive and have say have at least two copies of your important data at the very least in case one dies your not screwed etc. SSD's are not as proven which is why I would not recommend then over regular hard drives for any important data as when a SSD fails it can suddenly just stop working where as with a regular hard drive you might get a warning etc before your data is totally shot. but anyways... I have 9.9TB written on mine (Samsung 850 EVO 250GB SSD) and I have had it since May 2015 (so nearly 3 years). so at my current rate... if you figure roughly 10TB every 3 years ill get at least 21+ years out of it before it dies assuming it only fails from writing data to it and nothing else. so as you can see... they will likely outlast the computer they are in with modern SSD's (solid state drive). |
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