31 Aug 2010
Posted by Quantum at 8:09 pm
This week I took delivery of a 40GB Solid State Drive (SSD) an a copy of Windows 7 Professional to give a boost to my quad core box. Windows XP has had a good run and it is getting to the point where an OS upgrade is needed to get the best out of the [...]
30 Sep 2008
Posted by Quantum at 7:06 pm
Well its the end of September and it has been an expensive month. Part of this is down to my wreckless IT spending the other down to an automotive parts supplier. Early this month I had a problem spring out of nowhere, the hard disk in my old laptop died suddenly. I didn’t loose any [...]
06 Oct 2007
Posted by Quantum at 11:23 pm
When a hard disk dies the main priorities are to ensure that there has been little or no data loss and getting the effected system(s) back up and running. The faulty drive is removed and placed to one side. What happens to this drive next? Is it casually discarded, finding its way into the nearest [...]
