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Originally Posted by RH77
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Carlos -- I would totally get the Fujitsu if I could, but whatever they send is what I get under warranty. It's likely going to be a 120GB/5400RPM  They tease me with a nice replacement system and a 250GB HDD, it fails, and they go back to the original purchase for specs and cut 100 GB. And so it goes.
Essentially, is there a laptop brand that can handle "the road"? I travel for work, and my laptop goes where I go -- whether that's at 37,000 ft. or in a rental car somewhere in Iowa. I'm not rough with them by any means, so it's frustrating. I went through a few HPs that did better, but Fujitsu systems seem to superior overall from work experience.
Live from Wichita, Kansas -- RH77, EcoModder News. |
If I were you, assuming they send another WD and your boss would bankroll a tougher drive, I would diskcopy the contents of the new disk onto a Fujitsu Extended Duty and re-use the WD as an external USB "backup disk". This would lower it's usage and reduce it's likelihood of leaving you in the lurch.
Even though hard disks can "take anything" these days, I treat them as if they are still 20 year old technology. I always try to keep the hard disk platter oriented in the horizontal plane. If I carry the laptop while it's running, I walk with it as if it is a bowl of soup. More computer voodoo, I know, but I have been lucky overall (knock on virtual wood). The hard disk is more important than the computer. But, my experience is not yours because I don't use it "on the road". It basically goes from safe work environment to safe home environment to safe coffee shop.
The weak link in portables is still the hard disk. They are coming out with solid state (flash) hard disks. But the capacities are small and they cost an arm, a leg, and an ear.
CarloSW2