Strange noises
It's funny how you don't notice noises until they disappear.
I finally invested in an SSD for my desktop. It was taking a good 2 minutes to boot Windows 7, so for just over £50 I picked up an SSD on Amazon. Annoyingly, it shipped without a SATA cable, meaning I had to spend a whole 79p on Ebay* and wait another day while one arrived. Fitting it took about 3 minutes, then it was simply a case of using Macrium to clone the Windows partition on my existing hard disk. The process took about 90 minutes, and then annoyingly the thing wouldn't boot. The SSD was there and all the windows files were present and correct, but it wouldn't boot from it. After a bit of head scratching, came the realisation that I had forgotten to also clone the boot partition, so had to redo the process all over again. Another 90 minutes later and hey presto - it works. The machine now boots up in just over 15 seconds - result.
And so to the strange noises. It had never really occurred to me before how noisy a hard disk is. The SSD on the other hand is completely silent. Normally, even if the PC is idle, the hard drive is pretty much constantly in action. But as it now only has my music, videos, and other miscellaneous files on it, it when you actually decide to access one of those, it has to spin up and you hear it doing so. The you hear it whirring and clicking as it fires into action. Noises which were presumably there constantly in the past, but which the brain just ignores.
* Considering postage costs them 49p - how do they make money at that price?
I finally invested in an SSD for my desktop. It was taking a good 2 minutes to boot Windows 7, so for just over £50 I picked up an SSD on Amazon. Annoyingly, it shipped without a SATA cable, meaning I had to spend a whole 79p on Ebay* and wait another day while one arrived. Fitting it took about 3 minutes, then it was simply a case of using Macrium to clone the Windows partition on my existing hard disk. The process took about 90 minutes, and then annoyingly the thing wouldn't boot. The SSD was there and all the windows files were present and correct, but it wouldn't boot from it. After a bit of head scratching, came the realisation that I had forgotten to also clone the boot partition, so had to redo the process all over again. Another 90 minutes later and hey presto - it works. The machine now boots up in just over 15 seconds - result.
And so to the strange noises. It had never really occurred to me before how noisy a hard disk is. The SSD on the other hand is completely silent. Normally, even if the PC is idle, the hard drive is pretty much constantly in action. But as it now only has my music, videos, and other miscellaneous files on it, it when you actually decide to access one of those, it has to spin up and you hear it doing so. The you hear it whirring and clicking as it fires into action. Noises which were presumably there constantly in the past, but which the brain just ignores.
* Considering postage costs them 49p - how do they make money at that price?