On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 07:31:04PM +0000, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
Until this necessity, I'd always been wary of the extra cost & comparatively small capacity, coupled with the fact that I've never brought myself a new laptop, so all but one of the ones I've bought have come with spinning rust. However in the circumstances that I found myself in, the cost of a SSD kit was a fraction of the cost of a new laptop.
To be honest, every system I have added an SSD to has to gained such a huge performance benefit that they practially double (or better) in performance. Obviously this depends on your use case and what you do but comparatively the cost of buying more RAM and CPU vs. upgrading the storage meant that an SSD has always been a very very cheap upgrade!
Drilling holes in old disks before taking to the tip? Does that work well? I usually run DBAN (Darik's Boot And Nuke) on them, then break the sata or IDE pins off. Physical damage to the platters if something I'll consider. Do you just use a hand drill? Does it work well? Any tips??
Yes! It works incredibly well to relieve stress and anger. Battery powered Bosch PSB-18 drill and some bits for drilling metal do the job. Like Huge says, also hitting them with a hammer can be fun too. Don't forget eye protection though.
Adam