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A tree is known by its fruit, a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost, he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused.
I don't reply to private messages from end users.
You can try checking the BIOS of the device to see if SMART reporting is available, which could allow the device to interact with the drive firmware and report any errors.
Any pre-boot diagnostics are another option.
Both of these on consumer grade garbage laptops is questionable, then again these are machines that were sold with HDD's instead of SSD's or NVMe drives. The drives are likely 5200 RPM or some other slow rotation drive that just ends up thrashing around to locate anything on the disk.
Your best bet is to use the portable version of Crystal Disk Info and see if any SMART values are in a failed or predicted failed state. You just need to load the Zip of the Standard version onto a USB to run against any system:
Download - Crystal Dew World [en]
It's 2022: the only place for spinning rust drives is a RAID array in some kind of server or storage appliance.
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It's funny how things change. I was talking to an IT head at a manufacturing plant. He was planning to upgrade several office workstations at the plant and was looking at motherboards, specs, etc. He said he is tossing around the idea to make each of the workstations into a raid 5 array using NVMe sticks. Should a stick fail, toss in a new one and system rebuilds itself. He claims it will free up a lot of time for IT. Thought it was an interesting concept.
I've proved mathematics wrong. 1 + 1 doesn't always equal 2.........
Especially when it comes to sex
It's also a bigger waste of money. Why RAID out workstations? You don't need massive amounts of storage and there are much easier ways to manage making data easily portable from one system to another. Folder redirection, OneDrive known folder sync, even just a simple policy of no data stored locally.
In any sufficiently large organisation, workstations should be drop in replacements. Spend the money on an imaging system and configuration management instead of a more complicated setup.
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My daughter who is a Computer Science Professor say it might not be that great an idea. She says it will be more cost effective to go with a raid array using 2.5 inch SSD and includes an enclosure and mother board. Overall it may not save much IT support time as places that have tried have experienced higher failure rates than HDD.
I don't know how I overlooked this post. I've already installed the SSD and it's back with the customer.
I used SeaTools to check the health of the HDD. I heard it was supposed to be good. Ever heard of it? Anyway, I'll be sure to try your suggestions in the future. I ALWAYS trust your advice.
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