SSD?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

ubuntu at howorth.org.uk wrote:

>My backup drive is permanently connected and has been for many years
>and I've never had any such problem. I'd much rather have a backup
>drive connected so it just works reliably day after day with no
>action required.

I thought I'd jump in and add that if your power supply starts to go,
it can take all sorts of other hardware with it on its way out. Power
supplies can suddenly turn into Pac-Man monsters that relentlessly
chomp their way through your system until you stop them. It's only
after you notice all sorts of things failing in strange and often
unrelated ways in your computer that you put two and two together and
realize the culprit is the power supply.

We've been there a time or two over the years and it ended up
motivating us to build new systems rather than replace the various
parts in the old ones.

So far, you seem to have had some really good luck, but this is just
something to ponder, since that attached backup drive would be
potential Pac-Man food for a voraciously hungry power supply.

-- 
Little Girl

There is no spoon.