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Discussion in 'The Pub' started by risky, Oct 25, 2018.

  1. risky

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    not a bike but for your info.my computers hard drive failed last night so off to techy this morning- hard drive locked up and not salveageableso off and bought an ssd [solid state drive]500gb for $115.has speede up the computer over the old platter hard drives.so much so have given up on idea of a new box.
     
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    I/O speeds on a SSD are significantly faster hence the performance boost , the old platter drives were the bottleneck.
     
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    Linkin The Mechanic Premium Member Contributing Member Dirty Wheel Club

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    best upgrade for a slow laptop
     
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    Speaking of SSD drives , I am going to replace my drive in my desktop with an SSD , what does everyone use for disk cloning , I spent 20 years in IT and when I was on the tools, I used to use Ghost to clone drives , what is the current tool that everyone is using ?
     
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    I use gparted running off a live linux distribution, you can basically pick any distro you want, an awesome one is knoppix which boots very quickly and runs entirely off of the boot media, either make a bootable USB or burn a DVD or CD

    Ubuntu is a good distro, just boot it live without installing, though I'm running Linux Mint nowadays which is very smooth

    Other options are clonezilla which I haven't used and there is also SystemRescueCD.

    It's always good to have a linux boot media handy in case things go awry and you need to salvage data from non-booting systems
     
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    +1 for clonezilla works well and pretty straight forward to use....
     
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    thanks guys
     

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