Melrick

Hopefully, she’ll get and feel the full benefit of the cooler air now… *hugs you both… after coming in from the sleet outside*

I know we have cooling centers here in the extreme heat, where the elderly and children can go to cool off in air conditioning. Is there any place there which might offer that for your mum’s sake?

I honestly wish I could channel some of our winter down your way, I really do. Those temperatures are simply madness.

If there is then I don’t know where they are.  Still, we’ve almost survived this summer now.  If this really is the worst of it over then I almost feel triumphant.  Mother Nature did its best to try and kill us, but it failed!

Oh, Melrick…

I hope you’ll be okay

True.  Touch wood!

Welcome Back.

Thanks.  Good to be back.

Seriously… I’d be pissed at the shop for not checking both HDs thoroughly.

Damn… sorry Melrick. From bad to worse

If you can, backup your data.

I generally find that when a drive dies, it dies, about the same SSD/HDD.  Should be doing backups all the time, regardless of drive type.  Especially true with the ransomware going around.  I've not had an SSD die, but my closet has plenty of dead HDDs.  YMMV.

The daft bugger lost everything on his SSD when it failed (heat), but I’ve been able to pull files of failed HDDs many times now, most recently with the Spawn’s HDD. If I ever use an SSD, it will be for things I don’t mind losing, like game files. I’d never keep all my stuff on one HD anyway, but still…

Then again, I still miss DOS.

On windows, I use UrBackup to my NAS.   In Linux, it's a periodic rsync to a local HDD (cron job).  But I'm otherwise on SSDs.