Re: [H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread Jeff
Good stuffthanks, Al Your six is clear, just rest the nose on the horizon and enjoy the sunset. Jeff Thought this might be of interest to the collective: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ best of new years, Al

Re: [H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread Joshua MacCraw
How long back do you see that trend Thane? I know Seagate has swung wildly, repeatedly in & out of favor for down right junk and poor decisions over the past 25yrs+. Where I can't from-the-hip make a similar statement of WD or HGST being as notorious for failures. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 6:40 AM,

Re: [H] Duncan

2015-01-25 Thread Joshua MacCraw
Good to hear from Duncan, speedy recovery to you! On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 4:45 PM, wrote: > I'm doing okay. Feelin' good. I am in an assisted living facility called > Rosewood, in Fort Oglethorpe (where my sister lives). Have my own apartment. > And it sucks to have to stay here, til June,

Re: [H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 04:20 PM 25/01/2015, Bryan Seitz wrote: Seagate has definitely been on the sh*t list for me for awhile. One of my big complaints about Seagate is how inaccurate the SMART attributes are - it's virtually impossible to tell when it's getting bad. T

Re: [H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread Bryan Seitz
Seagate has definitely been on the sh*t list for me for awhile. On Sun, Jan 25, 2015 at 10:40:42AM -0400, Thane Sherrington wrote: > At 10:12 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote: > >Thought this might be of interest to the collective: > > Interesting article. In my experience (and I work on 4-8 computers a

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 02:11 PM 25/01/2015, Anthony Q. Martin wrote: That works for me. It's time to move on from Win7. My only question is can this be applied to more than one system by one user? I would assume every license would be eligable for an upgrade. T

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread Anthony Q. Martin
That works for me. It's time to move on from Win7. My only question is can this be applied to more than one system by one user? On 1/25/2015 9:52 AM, Thane Sherrington wrote: Interesting, MS is trying to push everyone to 10 in a big way. http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/01/21/windows-10-to-

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 11:31 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote: > From: th...@computerconnectionltd.com > Subject: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users > > Interesting, MS is trying to push everyone to 10 in a big way. Best line I've heard so far: Personally why would an offer of "free" be an inducement to upgrade? My o

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread A L
That was weird... > From: eight.bit...@outlook.com > To: hardw...@lists.hardwaregroup.com > Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2015 10:31:37 -0500 > Subject: Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users > > > > From: th...@computerconnectionltd.com > > Subject: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users > > > > Inter

Re: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread A L
> From: th...@computerconnectionltd.com > Subject: [H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users > > Interesting, MS is trying to push everyone to 10 in a big way. Best line I've heard so far: Personally why would an offer of "free" be an inducement to upgrade? My offer of free snow that you shovel

[H] Windows 10 free for Win7 & 8 users

2015-01-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
Interesting, MS is trying to push everyone to 10 in a big way. http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/01/21/windows-10-to-be-free.aspx T

Re: [H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread Thane Sherrington
At 10:12 AM 25/01/2015, A L wrote: Thought this might be of interest to the collective: Interesting article. In my experience (and I work on 4-8 computers a day), the most reliable are the WD Black series, followed by Hitachi, and Seagate third. Of course, many failures I see are due to pe

[H] Best Hard Drive

2015-01-25 Thread A L
Thought this might be of interest to the collective: https://www.backblaze.com/blog/best-hard-drive/ best of new years, Al