Desktop Storage: SSD vs Magnetic Hard Drive
It has been said that you have to sometimes look back to see how far you’ve come. A little over a week ago the traditional hard drive in my desktop computer started to fail. The BIOS reported a SMART alarm indicating imminent disk failure.
While this HP desktop was a good deal when it was purchased, the 1.5TB Seagate hard drive, spinning at just 5400 RPM, was part of what motivated the addition of the 256 GB SSD as the boot volume. The traditional hard drive was only for user data.
Despite the alarm state, the system seemed to be running fine. I ordered a 1 TB WD Black hard drive from Amazon. In making the choice of the WD Black I looked around online for research on hard drive reliability. I found a blog post by Backblaze, a company that provides online backup. They have consistently found Seagate drives to be the most failure prone. As a huge user of hard drives, it’s great that they make their data public.
My desktop PC is just now passing three years old. When it arrived I imaged the factory installed 2 TB hard drive, 
for the boot volume. With 
In my past life I schlepped equipment all around North America in the process of giving demonstrations. As the most senior field staff it also fell to me to oversee the acquisition of shipping cases for our demo inventory.
There are often little conveniences that we deny ourselves. At least, that’s true around here. To the observant, these can be the basis for a thoughtful and unexpected gift. For example, do you have a high-quality 
This is the tale of my first interaction with Lenovo on a matter of warranty support. As you may know I’ve owned a 
ultrabook since January of 2013. It’s a nice, light computer. While it’s coming on two years old, it still serves me well enough.