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resinch a dieing disk or add new disk & resinch?
Apologies again. I posted the same message in the "Test" board, and got complete unnoticed / unseen. As it is rather urgent, I am re-posting it here, where I hope it will be seen. I could not find a b...
I guess it is hard to say if the disk is provoking these crashes, or if it is an unrelated PC issue.
There is something funny with many things of that particular PC, and not just the OS. In particular, the ON/OFF switch seems to be "stuck in" and sometimes I wonder if it isn't a totally trivial hardware fault.
Also I am not sure about the fact that the SEAGATE (NAS) disk performed much better than the MAXTOR, but called for 50% more CPU use (7.6% instead of 5.0%. Basically (I am totally clueless about this specific point) I did not expect to see a difference there (unless it is implicit by the better performance of the HD, average writing speed 120.3 MB/sec instead of 85.5 MB/sec)
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