I know it seems unreal to wax nostalgic for head crashes, but at least then you knew beyond a shadow of a doubt the drive was bad. Today’s drives seem to half-fail. I was reminded of this story for two reasons. I listed this machine on craigslist, and it appears I have a drive from another machine failing the same way. Someone emailed me wanting to communicate off-list about the machine, that isn’t going to … I Miss Head CrashesRead more
hard drives
Posted inUncategorized
A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer Slower
It sounds like the most counter intuitive statement one could make. A faster hard drive makes your computer slower. If you understand how and why you will understand it is a fact. A faster hard drive really can make your computer slower. This is more fallout from my Manjaro experiments. You really should read the previous post about the resume error on boot to get a full background no how we got here. I’ve always … A Faster Hard Drive Makes Your Computer SlowerRead more