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Subject: Re: Back up and running

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K Pelle aka dotB

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Date Posted: 17:28:42 02/14/14 Fri
In reply to: Mike 's message, "Re: Back up and running" on 15:13:16 02/13/14 Thu

I have a young friend who is into gaming on the computer and he told me he has gone through THREE SSDs in just over a year.
It seems that in gaming the drives are written to so often that they simply burn out.
That's why I stick to USB thumbdrives (or flashdrives, if that's what you want to call them.) Still, I do stick to well known brands and I change them out often. I only write to them a couple dozen or so times before they are wiped using a multiple wipe/rewrite/wipe program. Then the 'clean' drives are donated to a local highschool drama club to be given to their aspiring actors loaded with copies of their parts in the present scripts. (It just feels better than scrapping the darn things because I have enough doorstops.)

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Doug
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Date Posted: 20:29:51 02/17/14 Mon

Biggest problem with any storage media - hard drive or
SSD - is brown outs and surges. I had a friend who
lived in cottage country in Manitoba a number of years
ago who bought a new computer and promptly went through
3 hard drives in 3 weeks under warranty. A buddy and I
convinced him to put an uninterrupted power supply on
the computer - a battery backup - he never lost another
hard drive. We don't have the best record for keeping electronics alive in Saskatchewan - I have fried more dishwashers, answering machines etc due to brown outs and surges than you can imagine. But I have only lost one hard drive in 20 years - I have co-workers who continually lose them. I also protect my other important electronics with them. Anyone who runs a computer that doesn't protect their investment with one is asking for trouble.