continuing disk crash issue

[Liam Proven]

On 03/07/2025 4:07 am, Owen Thomas wrote:
> Although I wasn't specifically looking for a "cheap" option, I have got 
> a very limited budget. Perhaps I will invest in an external HDD someday 
> soon.

It still matters.

I spent about 5 years out of work and was forced to emigrate to deal 
with it. I know what it's like. All my computers for a decade or more 
were built from scrap.

In some cases, I earned the scrap by fixing or upgrading friends' PCs 
and they let me keep the leftovers.

Knowledge is free and it's one of the best ways out of penury.

But it also means knowing what works and how and why it works, so that 
you can avoid wasting limited resources -- be those tech or compute or 
financial resources.

Linux is free, and the level of hardware that can run Linux _well_ is 
also free almost everywhere in the world. All you need is to know how to 
get it and build it and fix it.

We all need backups. If you're working with old kit they are even more 
important.

Things like Gmail, Dropbox, and so on are still free or have a useful 
free tier. RAID is free. You can open half a dozen Google or Dropbox 
accounts, RAID them together, and back up to that.

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