Recent content by phenriot

I had started to write a longer reply, but I will keep this short. False information (i.e. SSD don't fail), blaming me for the crashes and belittling my requirements for stability had put me in a negative state of mind and prevented me from simply moving on, which I will do now. Apologies for...

an interesting report for the SSD fanboys here: https://www.extremetech.com/computing/332391-backblaze-publishes-its-first-ssd-reliability-report incidentially, one of the SSDs that failed me was a Crucial MX500 ... so much for "if the SSD crashes it's configured wrong" so I'm going to...

that statement is pretty disqualifying.

I'm using remote desktop (Teamviewer, Anydesk) but also remote tools, SSH, FTP, VPN accounts... There is also LINE, Telegram, Whatsapp, etc. 50 mbps ... my system drive currently holds 130 GB, I can't imagine the time it would need for a backup, not to mention a mandatory subscription to a...

I do not share your point of view on that matter, as I've had plenty of disks and other devices supposedly of good quality fail. Cloud backup is not realistic, I spend 90% of my time in Asia, I get 50 Mbps on good days. Windows is not the problem, but my other programs (local servers, local...

also, regarding backup - what solution do you use ? I would like to backup my whole system disk automatically before system shutdown (including recovery, EFI and OS), i.e. when I tell the system to shutdown, it asks me if it should perform a backup and then does the backup before shutting...

Thanks Scott The one and only thing to think about is how to keep the system running when the primary system drive fails, you have only one computer, and it's Saturday evening in Switzerland (i.e. all shops are closed until Monday). I'd need to at least software-mirror my system disk...

SSD disks fail. The latest failure was in my external data storage unit, a Crucial MX 500. I found out too late that these tend to overheat. I already have a daily backup of the data disks running. They data disks are RAID-1 too and the backup is a real PITA. The system disk must be restored...

I travel. It's a work laptop. Often its the only computer I have with me. Using RAID-1 for my system disk has become a second nature, as I've had too many disks fail on me for comfort (in 20 years, I've had 8 or 9 disks fail, including 4 SSD in the past 5 years). So using RAID-1 I can continue...

thanks for all your replies, yes I'm normally based in Switzerland I asked PCS in chat about options for the 3rd and 4th SDD as well as RAID, but they said they don't offer that. But I know the Clevo machines have the bays available :-/ I think it kind of defeats the purpose to offer "custom...

prices for laptops have gone bonkers in the last years. I need a new laptop that I'll be using for work and pleasure, I travel quite a bit, so I have external 2.5k monitors that I hook up, so I'm not really keen on an expensive display. also, I need a RAID-1 config, which has completely...