Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 26 days agoMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?message-squaremessage-square28fedilinkarrow-up119arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up117arrow-down1message-squareMy brothers Chuwi laptop had major problems. Now he got a wal-mart gift card for the price he paid for the Chuwi. He is eyeing an HP laptop with 256gb ssd. Is that the same as a regular harddrive?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 26 days agomessage-square28fedilinkfile-text
Can he download stuff like a regular hard drive where you get 256gb of space or is it like a cloud service or something?
minus-squareneidu3@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-226 days agoNervously glancing over at the stack of Exos 10TB drives I have as leftovers after upgrading a storage cluster to use 18TB drives
minus-squareEm Adespoton@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up1·26 days agoInterestingly, my SSDs tend to fail due to reaching their maximum writes (takes roughly 15 years). My HDDs fail due to shock or overheating. Tend to last roughly 9 years.
Nervously glancing over at the stack of Exos 10TB drives I have as leftovers after upgrading a storage cluster to use 18TB drives
Interestingly, my SSDs tend to fail due to reaching their maximum writes (takes roughly 15 years).
My HDDs fail due to shock or overheating. Tend to last roughly 9 years.