{"id":2326,"date":"2012-10-07T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T12:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2012-10-07T15:02:43","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T14:02:43","slug":"if-it-moves-it-breaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2326","title":{"rendered":"If it moves, it breaks!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having been in IT for the better part of 30 years, I still sometimes forget, so when the New 500GB disk in my new laptop threw an error, I thought it was my fault. It wasn&#8217;t, it was, what is often refered to as &#8216;Infant Mortality&#8217; a physical failure of the disk. The &#8216;Smart Disk&#8217; technology on the drive controller built into the diskdrive identified the drive as &#8216;Failing&#8217; and the Mint OS marked the drive read-only. <\/p>\n<p>This allowed me to backup most of the the stuff I&#8217;d put on the drive to an external drive, but then it was useless. The drive has been sent back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcspecialist.co.uk\/\">PC Specialists <\/a> for a replacement. The only good thing about this was the ease of repair of my new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clevo.com.tw\/en\/\">Clevo Laptop<\/a> The disk removal took less than 5 minutes, two screws to open and remove the disk. <\/p>\n<p>I am now using the laptop, booted from a new Mint installation on a 16GB SanDisk Cruser thumb drive. There isn&#8217;t much space left, and I get an occasional I\/O pause with this setup, but try this with Windows, or a Mac and see how far you get. <\/p>\n<p>But remember: &#8216;<strong>If it moves, it breaks!<\/strong>&#8216; backup often and more often! <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Smart_Disk_Report.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Smart_Disk_Report.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Smart_Disk_Report\" width=\"778\" height=\"516\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Smart_Disk_Report.png 778w, https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Smart_Disk_Report-300x198.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 778px) 100vw, 778px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having been in IT for the better part of 30 years, I still sometimes forget, so when the New 500GB disk in my new laptop threw an error, I thought it was my fault. It wasn&#8217;t, it was, what is<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/?p=2326\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If it moves, it breaks!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,10,5,16,9],"tags":[576,579,577],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-it-issues","category-linux","category-mac","category-microsoft","category-windows","tag-clevo","tag-diskdrive","tag-pc-specialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2330,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.branedy.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}