Re: [PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-31 Thread Chuck Hast
All of the SSD's that I have purchased came with the hardware for the 3.5" bays Since SSD's are small they just make a single size you can use in either lap- tops or larger hardware. Add the rails and you are 3.5". On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 1:58 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:

Re: [PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-31 Thread Rich Shepard
On Wed, 31 Jan 2018, John Jason Jordan wrote: I started my shopping on Newegg and haven't gotten much further. But I note that none of the drives are 3.5" form factor. I can get a ~1TB SSD in 2.5", mSATA, M2, or PCIe. I assume there exist hardware adapters to mount one of these in a 3.5" bay,

Re: [PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-31 Thread wes
On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 11:23 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:30:36 -0800 > wes dijo: > > >> I'm tired of drives with moving parts. Does anyone have any faves in > >> the SSD world? > > >Kingston! > > I started my shopping on Newegg and

Re: [PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-31 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 22:30:36 -0800 wes dijo: >> I'm tired of drives with moving parts. Does anyone have any faves in >> the SSD world? >Kingston! I started my shopping on Newegg and haven't gotten much further. But I note that none of the drives are 3.5" form factor. I can

Re: [PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-31 Thread Chuck Hast
Seagate is evil. I had a drive that I kept all of my video on, one day I went to watch a movie, fired it up and heard the dreaded "click of death" I tried all of the usual tricks but no avail. I have had many others fail the same way. I generally use WD drives, never lost one of those. SEAGATE

[PLUG] Another Seagate drive died

2018-01-30 Thread John Jason Jordan
Have I mentioned lately how much I hate Seagate drives? This was the boot drive in my desktop computer. Fortunately this computer is used only for watching tv, playing movies, and streaming internet radio. It took a couple of hours, but its back n business, running Xubuntu 17.10 off of an 8GB USB