Can I increase memory without external HD?
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korialstraz
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Re: Can I increase memory without external HD?
Simple answer: If it's a stationary comp, get another internal HDD, connect it and it should work right away without the need to reinstall the comp. You'll (should) have C: and D: now, C: being where the OS is and D: the new HDD.
Edit: Just make sure you get the right type. Either SATA or IDE.
Simple answer: If it's a stationary comp, get another internal HDD, connect it and it should work right away without the need to reinstall the comp. You'll (should) have C: and D: now, C: being where the OS is and D: the new HDD.
Edit: Just make sure you get the right type. Either SATA or IDE.
jmervyn
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Re: Can I increase memory without external HD?
The entire belief that powering drives on and off is somehow worse than leaving them running is as feeble and puny as your anecdote. Since a modern HDD is rated at, say, 40,000 power cycles, you'd have to be turning it on and off around 15 times a day in order to wear the head motors out in 7 years. At best you might claim that if you turn an <older> disk on and off constantly then you might have greater chance of a <data> failure or head crash as it ages. The drive bearings, on the other hand, will degrade as the drives are kept running.
So obvious or not, you remain, as always, wrong.
Your initial claim was that your own drive hadn't broken down yet, which is nothing but personal anecdote and statistically meaningless, where I manage around 500 computers daily and have done so for at least a dozen years. So from the start, my personal anecdote has kicked the snot out of yours and is busy bullying it into eating dog doo from the curbside. Yesterday's reply to Glurin was the first and only point at which you actually proposed that it's not a good idea to turn drives on and off.
The entire belief that powering drives on and off is somehow worse than leaving them running is as feeble and puny as your anecdote. Since a modern HDD is rated at, say, 40,000 power cycles, you'd have to be turning it on and off around 15 times a day in order to wear the head motors out in 7 years. At best you might claim that if you turn an <older> disk on and off constantly then you might have greater chance of a <data> failure or head crash as it ages. The drive bearings, on the other hand, will degrade as the drives are kept running.
So obvious or not, you remain, as always, wrong.