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Brickwizard

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Decided, as I had nothing better to do, I would update my mint 21 installation on my spare desktop drive [plate spinner] I haven't touched it since last December, 105 updates, its been chugging away for over an hour and only just past halfway done, would have been quicker to do a new install
 


is that plate spinner perhaps due for retirement ?
 
its just finished the first lot, so i checked back through the logs auto update said 109 but i ran apt and it turned out to be 379 [tech me to read what i am looking at, now update manager has found another 53 which its installing now. not as if my set-up is slow, I have an I5 quad-core 3gh base [3.9 turbo], once this lot had finished and i have cleaned the files I will timeshift it, then if it offers a M22 upgrade let that run [I can always go out in the garden if i can find some shade [ambient temp around 30 at the moment with the laptop
 
Brickwizard said:
Decided, as I had nothing better to do, I would update my mint 21 installation on my spare desktop drive [plate spinner] I haven't touched it since last December, 105 updates, its been chugging away for over an hour and only just past halfway done, would have been quicker to do a new install
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I've been busy with life in general and haven't had mine on in a few months. Updated it over the weekend and was over 150. Haven't made the switch to the latest version yet. Going to give them a few months to work out the kinks.
 
I use plate spinners and dual core processors and downloads are fast even on computers I haven't used or updated in a year or so.

I'd be checking the website download speed.

What type of internet are you on and what is the speed.
 
The Duck said:
what is the speed.
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39Mb down 8Mb up [max for my area], it was the number of updates, the mint updater said 109, but I don't use it, I always use apt upgrade, and it found 379, using apt it also upgraded from M21.1 to mint 21.3
 
Vimmer said:
pay extra for the ssds.
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The plate spinner is virtually new and ideal for storage and as an emergency drive, my main drive is an M2-NVMe in the desktop and ssd in the laptop
 
Vimmer said:
In my experience, its not great to have important data on those! I'm not quite as much of a noodler as BrickWiz seems, so i just pay extra for the ssds.
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Brickwizard said:
The plate spinner is virtually new and ideal for storage and as an emergency drive, my main drive is an M2-NVMe in the desktop and ssd in the laptop
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I've never had many of the plate spinners fail.

I still have quite a stash of NOS plate spinners.

I've seen users replace their old plate spinner because some computer guy said it was going to fail soon shot and replaced with an SSD.

Months later their new SSD failed and they were upset as they no longer had their old reliable plate spinner.

I don't know what brands the failed SSDs were although they were replaced by a computer shop so who knows.

I'll stay with what I already have as I'm a cheap old bastard and don't want to spend the money.
 
The Duck said:
I've never had many of the plate spinners fail.
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I have only lost them when we have had a power surge, I run an integrity check usually once a year [unless they are playing around]
 
The Duck said:
I've never had many of the plate spinners fail.

I still have quite a stash of NOS plate spinners.

I've seen users replace their old plate spinner because some computer guy said it was going to fail soon shot and replaced with an SSD.

Months later their new SSD failed and they were upset as they no longer had their old reliable plate spinner.

I don't know what brands the failed SSDs were although they were replaced by a computer shop so who knows.

I'll stay with what I already have as I'm a cheap old bastard and don't want to spend the money.
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I think for me it was a manufacturing anomoly: i had this large 3TB spinner data drive for important files from toshiba (a good reputation brand), and after a couple years of light usage it was dead and unreadable. Lol.
 
Vimmer said:
I think may have been an electrical issue, now adays i always plug desktops into surge protectors.
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You think... we are on OHP [overhead power supply] so the house has Residual earth breakers and surge protection so it must have been a hell of a voltage spike to get through,
 
The Wife bought some of these when her hard drive failed although didn't bother to say anything until I found them in some unopened mail.

The order ticket said they were $19.99 each she bought three of them.

I've read good reviews about them so guess I should stick one in one of my old pieced together Frankenstein desktops and see how it works.

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