
Is this a push by the Tech Industry to steer us more into SSDs? Unfortunately, for the Lay Person, SSDs are STILL TOO expensive! However as my dad needs his Laptop for work, I turned him towards a Samsung 512 GB SSD which came to $248 + Tax. This was a Western Digital Black, 1TB Drive.

three years old!Ĭombine these stats with MY recent Hard Drive failure of a drive that BARELY hit TWO years old. This is the SECOND hard drive failure in ONE week that my dad has suffered through! I don't know, yet, the manufacturer of the Laptop Hard Drive but, the HP Envy Desktop system had a Western Digital Blue. My dad just suffered ANOTHER computer failure due to a faulty drive! His ASUS Laptop, (NOT even three years old, yet), had a catastrophic failure and would NOT boot as of this morning. I uninstalled MSI command center and disabled the update sharing ASAP.It seems to me in reflection that Hard Drives, (especially Western Digital), manufactured 10 years ago or longer had better quality and longer life expectancy than modern Hard Drives. The next offending item is backgroundtaskhost.exe which i googled to be Windows10 seeding your computer updates to anyone on your network to speed up the update process for everyone. MSI command center WTF? either you guys are fail programmers with terrible coding skills or you stealing my info and constantly uploading it to your mainframes? Im shocked. Confused, i did a check with Resource Monitor and found this I only use my computer to game and i leave it on over night sometimes with no program running/ number crunching. I sent my SSD data to them and they found out that over the past 262 hours of use and 113 TB of data has been written on the disk. Over the past 2 weeks it has been consistantly dropping so i contacted OCZ support to see if it was a crappy SSD and needed warrenty. I have been checking the health of it occasionally and found it dropped down to 99% in the first day! I was like, probably a false positive. I got a brand new OCZ vector180 two weeks ago and cloned my old SSD drive onto it (my system drive) as it was nearing death after 6 years.
