Re: So you want to install Windows 10 on an XP?
Posted: Sat Aug 29, 2015 5:39 pm
I was looking on Newegg and seeing mixed reviews on drives of all flavors. I was thinking of WD Black or Red rather than Blue, just because WD has (had) a good name, but several reviewers have reported failed Red drives right out of the box, one including the RMA replacement too. Hitachi (Travelstar) was top rated a few years ago and I've had really good service with them in laptops, but now they're owned by WD, and some are saying the QC is slipping. Seagate was not well respected years ago, and now seems to have gotten better, but maybe that's just comparative to everyone else's sliding quality. Samsung, Toshiba, all seem to have issues. Maybe it's just the rotten eggs that are reported, and there are tens of thousands of satisfied users for every bad one, but not having "spare time" to deal with home computers that refuse to work, it gives me pause. It may be time to move to a NAS (RAID 1) for our data, and just keep a base OS and programs on the box, fully cloned to a spare drive (or SSD, or CD/DVD) via Norton Ghost, or Macrium Reflect.
Odd how some have claimed needing to reload their OS "every year" to clear up bugs, bloat, etc, but I had my laptop going on the same load of 98SE it came with when I bought it used in 2002 until I went to ME in 2008 or 9, and haven't had to reload OS or 'revert' to a prior restore point yet. It's on it's second screen, third HD, second set of removable RAM, and I just recently replaced the keyboard, but it still computes (and has the FREE version of Solitaire!). I somewhere have a Ghost image of the 98SE version, and could use that as a restore point if really needed, and have a ME clone on a USB stick from the last HD before it quit altogether. Not sure how I'd clone a Win10 system, other than to another huge HD.
Odd how some have claimed needing to reload their OS "every year" to clear up bugs, bloat, etc, but I had my laptop going on the same load of 98SE it came with when I bought it used in 2002 until I went to ME in 2008 or 9, and haven't had to reload OS or 'revert' to a prior restore point yet. It's on it's second screen, third HD, second set of removable RAM, and I just recently replaced the keyboard, but it still computes (and has the FREE version of Solitaire!). I somewhere have a Ghost image of the 98SE version, and could use that as a restore point if really needed, and have a ME clone on a USB stick from the last HD before it quit altogether. Not sure how I'd clone a Win10 system, other than to another huge HD.