Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs

HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just install Linux on it. My laptop is from 2011 and I’ve got bazzite on it and it’s been great. That should atleast get you through the bubble

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah but it’s a hardware issue that’s beyond my caring to try and troubleshoot. Random blue screens, memtest86 shows an error always at the same address no matter which sodimms I put or swap them around. I guess it runs until software enters that address range and blam! I think it might be power supply related at the board level, not the power brick. I don’t feel like changing capacitors at random, for all I know there might be voltage out of spec because a resistor value drifted.

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    • tryp@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      If the memory error is in a small address range and you are willing to get super nerdy, you can tell the linux kernel to avoid the bad addresses. Some discussion in unix.stackexchange.com/…/user-friendly-way-to-app…

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  yeah win7 is better than any later winproduct

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• carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  And what exactly has that to do with HHDs?

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  • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    OP is upgrading FROM 12 yr old hardware during a time where hardware prices prices are rising due to a shortage of some components because AI data centers are demanding them.

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    • carrylex@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Ok but what has that to do with HDDs??? Every normal Laptop nowadays comes with an M2 SSD…

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      • Eezyville@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It doesn’t need to have anything to do with SSDs. The point is there is a hardware shortage of something that most computers have and laptop manufactures can use that as an excuse to raise prices. Also just because most laptops come with M.2 SSDs doesn’t mean all of them would. There may be some that use 2.5" HDDs.

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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ok but what has that to do with HDDs??? Every normal Laptop nowadays comes with an M2 SSD…

        But…OP isn’t upgrading their hardware…so they’re still rocking that 12yr old lappy-m’tappy

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• InFerNo@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Depends, is your choice of OS windows 10?

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  • altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    If so, you are fucked.

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