Front USB Recognition Issue

Kevin Ismail said:

Now I lost my 15-year-family archives. 😢

That's why I'm storing my archives in an USB drive.

I have an HDD, it is a boot drive, almost 5 years old.
I'm forgot about the correct handling of hard disk drives.
Because I'm cleaning my PC once a week.

the good, the HDD is on the good condition.
the bad, the HDD has 95% of health.

If the HDD has damaged, I need to get hand an SATA SSD, which the problem is it is so expensive here.

SIW2 said:

Really? what is the cost of a 512gb ssd nowadays, has it gone up?

128GB of SSD is 1000~2000 in currency here.

Playing with memory chips, nothing is cheap. The price of a 256GB SSD equals to one 1TB HDD (ore or less). But yeah for the sake of speed I have all running system with SSD. While the storage I still on HDD with the thinking it could still safe while we are not doing an aggresive read and write like system (probably) it will last. Read some rumors about incoming HDD which will challenge SSD. Really? This is half mechanical vs full logic.

I'm thinking to upgrade my drive into an SSD. But they tend so expensive, and after SSD install, I need to clean install Windows 10 or 11 (I don't know), and lose my files.

SIW2 said:

Uh oh

jbcarreon123 said:

That's why I'm storing my archives in an USB drive.

I have an HDD, it is a boot drive, almost 5 years old.
I'm forgot about the correct handling of hard disk drives.
Because I'm cleaning my PC once a week.

the good, the HDD is on the good condition.
the bad, the HDD has 95% of health.

If the HDD has damaged, I need to get hand an SATA SSD, which the problem is it is so expensive here.

Yeah. It happened.
I was being ignorant. Usually there is sign of storage breaking down like the reading is timing out. That was why I bought new one, I should have flushed all archives imediatelly once the new HDD was in place. And that was a week before I knocked it out.
I haven't given it up, next week will try mounting the HDD with different head from other spare. who knows MacGivers is siding me up..

jbcarreon123 said:

I'm thinking to upgrade my drive into an SSD. But they tend so expensive, and after SSD install, I need to clean install Windows 10 or 11 (I don't know), and lose my files.

Just give little push to yourself. Get a 240GB SSD. I find it is sufficient for system and some program with priority. Windows 10 installs very quick on it. Change HDD to data storage and some sidekick programs. I installed some large sized games on HDD as it's okey if they get crashed.
I have tried running an old-2013-Core i3 notebook with 120GB SSD and now my grand daughter uses it for online schooling. She loves it.

kevin

Kevin Ismail said:

Just give little push to yourself. Get a 240GB SSD. I find it is sufficient for system and some program with priority. Windows 10 installs very quick on it. Change HDD to data storage and some sidekick programs. I installed some large sized games on HDD as it's okey if they get crashed.
I have tried running an old-2013-Core i3 notebook with 120GB SSD and now my grand daughter uses it for online schooling. She loves it.

kevin

you hit the point. I have an i3 desktop daily-driving, also using on online schooling.
it is from 2016. so no NVME, and no TPM (I don't know if W11 installs on my PC because of this).