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Reply #30 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:30pm

BH what happens when the glue gives away ?

Does it connect with USB ?

USB connexion is desperately slow and can give transmission errors in a long data transfer.

actually 250GB is very small these days.

These SSD are best for the C drive system disk as they are quick.

I have had conventional disk drives give up the ghost but my 3 SSDs are still going OK. Less to go wrong I suppose.

Size is the main req for backup and so ordinary disks are usually used.

But the Windows 10 OneDrive on the cloud is free and fast but there is a size limit of 5Gb.

OneDrive is a consumer service tied to a Microsoft account. It includes a free tier that offers 5GB of file storage. You can upgrade the available storage to 50GB for $2 a month, but the best deal is an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, which includes 1000GB (1TB) of storage for up to five users.Aug 15, 2018

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Reply #31 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:35pm

juliar wrote on Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:30pm:

BH what happens when the glue gives away ?

Does it connect with USB ?

USB connexion is desperately slow and can give transmission errors in a long data transfer.

actually 250GB is very small these days.

These SSD are best for the C drive system disk as they are quick.

I have had conventional disk drives give up the ghost but my 3 SSDs are still going OK. Less to go wrong I suppose.

Size is the main req for backup and so ordinary disks are usually used.

But the Windows 10 OneDrive on the cloud is free and fast but there is a size limit of 5Gb.

OneDrive is a consumer service tied to a Microsoft account. It includes a free tier that offers 5GB of file storage. You can upgrade the available storage to 50GB for $2 a month, but the best deal is an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, which includes 1000GB (1TB) of storage for up to five users.Aug 15, 2018

I have never had a hard drive failure in 23 years of owning PCs with hard drives.

I wish Gordon's cranium was close by so I could 'knock on wood'.

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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Solid State Drives Reply #32 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 3:02pm LarfTilluFrt has just predicted his 1st disk failure. Gordy has an admirer in LarfTillUfrt even if she is a bit perverted.
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Reply #33 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 7:58pm

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2019 at 3:30pm:

Windows 10 also allows backing up to the cloud with OneDrive but the capacity is not unlimited. This is a built in feature of Windows 10.

Just how secure is the cloud ? I don't know.

quite good article on Windows 10 backup options.

https://www.techadvisor.co.uk/how-to/windows/how-back-up-windows-10-3635397/

another complete backup is

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There is no cloud - the reality is that the cloud is just someone else's computer.

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Reply #34 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 8:12pm

Marla wrote on Aug 4^th, 2019 at 11:55pm:

juliar wrote on Aug 4^th, 2019 at 3:30pm:

Windows 10 also allows backing up to the cloud with OneDrive but the capacity is not unlimited. This is a built in feature of Windows 10.

I've been thinking about paying for a cloud service. I bought a WD 'My Cloud Home" and they are absolute garbage. Everything about this NAS drive sucks: the interface, the sloppy speeds on which it uploads, the lack of security, even the app.

https://www.wd.com/content/dam/wdc/website/products/family/my-cloud-home/wdfMyCl...

Windows 10 file copy speeds are crap, the problem may not be the nas.

1,6 and 8 I would look at most of the others I would not do.
https://www.saintlad.com/slow-internet-on-windows-10/

Windows 10 may be using your computer as a torrent client.

https://www.howtogeek.com/224981/how-to-stop-windows-10-from-uploading-updates-t...

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Reply #35 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 8:15pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:35pm:

juliar wrote on Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:30pm:

BH what happens when the glue gives away ?

Does it connect with USB ?

USB connexion is desperately slow and can give transmission errors in a long data transfer.

actually 250GB is very small these days.

These SSD are best for the C drive system disk as they are quick.

I have had conventional disk drives give up the ghost but my 3 SSDs are still going OK. Less to go wrong I suppose.

Size is the main req for backup and so ordinary disks are usually used.

But the Windows 10 OneDrive on the cloud is free and fast but there is a size limit of 5Gb.

OneDrive is a consumer service tied to a Microsoft account. It includes a free tier that offers 5GB of file storage. You can upgrade the available storage to 50GB for $2 a month, but the best deal is an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, which includes 1000GB (1TB) of storage for up to five users.Aug 15, 2018

I have never had a hard drive failure in 23 years of owning PCs with hard drives.

I wish Gordon's cranium was close by so I could 'knock on wood'.

I have probably replace 20 hard drives this year so far, they fail.

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Reply #36 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 8:21pm

juliar wrote on Aug 5^th, 2019 at 1:30pm:

BH what happens when the glue gives away ?

Does it connect with USB ?

USB connexion is desperately slow and can give transmission errors in a long data transfer.

actually 250GB is very small these days.

These SSD are best for the C drive system disk as they are quick.

I have had conventional disk drives give up the ghost but my 3 SSDs are still going OK. Less to go wrong I suppose.

Size is the main req for backup and so ordinary disks are usually used.

But the Windows 10 OneDrive on the cloud is free and fast but there is a size limit of 5Gb.

OneDrive is a consumer service tied to a Microsoft account. It includes a free tier that offers 5GB of file storage. You can upgrade the available storage to 50GB for $2 a month, but the best deal is an Office 365 Home or Personal subscription, which includes 1000GB (1TB) of storage for up to five users.Aug 15, 2018

I have had conventional disk drives give up the ghost but my 3 SSDs are still going OK. Less to go wrong I suppose.

SSD is fast.

Some disadvantages are:

SSD has a predetermined amount of read write actions before they stop working.

Where a platter disk will very likely show signs of a failure giving time to recover data a SSD typically just stops.

i.e there is no recovery option on day "X" it is just all gone.

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Reply #37 - Aug 5^th, 2019 at 9:08pm

Slow speed can be due to a slow motherboard and/or CPU and/or not enough memory.

Also an old spec USB. Even an inadequate power supply that doesn't like the extra load of the external disk.

And is the Windows 10 fully updated ? Do you have a decent virus and spyware checker ? NOT McAfee or Norton.

Has the disk that comes with the motherboard been loaded ?

To protect for SSD failure do regular Windows 10 image on another disk and create a Windows 10 boot disk.

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Marla Gold Member Offline I really hate you Posts: 12856 Colorado Gender:	Re: Solid State Drives Reply #38 - Aug 16^th, 2019 at 11:21am Prime Minister for Canyons wrote on Aug 5^th, 2019 at 11:08am: Picked up a fantastic 250 GB SSD external hard drive. Literally is the size of 3 credit cards glued together. And they're feather-light, too.
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Fuzzball Gold Member Offline Posts: 6381 Australia Gender:	Re: Solid State Drives Reply #39 - Aug 16^th, 2019 at 11:33am Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 4^th, 2019 at 1:16pm: My perception of Gordon's physical and mental state is that Gordon would be more likely to have a 'floppy' at hand. You just can't stop posting about masturbation can you sambo...........must mean you're a wanker like your buddy Miss Pessary..........
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juliar Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 22966	Re: Solid State Drives Reply #40 - Aug 16^th, 2019 at 11:39am Fuzzy, LarfTillUFart is mad as a 2 bob watch and is not the full quid.
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