On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 05:13:52AM -0500, Dale wrote: > Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 10:43:58 +0100, Andrea Conti wrote: > > > >>>> The SSD is currently reporting 98% of its rated life left: I feel > >>>> quite confident it's going to outlast the laptop's useful life. > >>> What are you using to get that niformation? > >> smartctl -A /dev/sdX > > 83% after five years of recompiling LO and Chromium, not bad :) > > > > > > Dang. That makes me feel better about getting one now. Heck, I'm using > a 160GB drive currently for my OS.
A hard disk that small is probably also very old, and thus slow. When I was still a poor little student, I used a 500 Gig WD disk as main drive for everything. It came originally from one of my first external enclosures. At some point it started to exhibit failures. By then I was earning my own dough. So I got me a brand-new WD Blue 1 TB. That drive had a speed increase of 150(!) %. IOW, it was 2½ times as fast as the old one. I still have the screenshots from HD Tune from back then. Imagine the speed-up you will get even from an up-to-date harddisk compared to your old veteran. -- Gruß | Greetings | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. I have a closet full of nothing to wear.
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