Re: How long do XP laptops last?

Somewhere on teh intarwebs Mark Shapiro wrote:
I understood that Macs use the same hard disc drives that every one
else uses.


I have found that Mac laptops have drives that are
more protected with rubber or shock-absorbing mounts,
and better power supplies, and the OS is not constantly
writing to the disk.

Also they're better designed than your aveage $300 laptop with attention to
HDD temperature.

The biggest killer of HDDs (after shock) is high temperatures. A lot of
cheap laptops are poorly designed in that their HDDs often exceed the HDD
manufacturers specified maximum temperature (60 deg C for most Seagate
drives FI).

Maybe 7 will be less drive-grinding. Maybe I just won't
buy a Dell again.

If you spend more you get more. Also there's a neat little application that
I wouldn't do without on *any* machine I own called Hard Disk Sentinel. It
runs in the background and monitors your HDD temperature and SMART status.
It can sound an alarm if the temperature goes over a pre-set point or if the
disk is failing etc.
--
Shaun.

"Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's
warm for the rest of his life." Terry Pratchet, 'Jingo'.


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