Me who stores important data on seagate external HDD with no backup reading the comments roasting seagate:

I had a gaming laptop whose CPU jumped to 92C immediately on load, the vendor replaced the heatsink + copper wires to solve the problem, the cooling system might be problematic instead of the CPU / mobo

And you can post a BBForums emoji?

Google without AI https://udm14.org/

Technically VLC buffers 1.5 seconds by default which actually broke streaming over SSHFS (phone’s filesystem mounted via KDE Connect) for me, had to increase buffer to 10 secs

Install Win7 version of solitaire

(meme acquisition notice)

I’d say even cheap Androids can last long: Samsung A series receive 4 OS updates and after updates are over, you can get a few more years with last supported OS until battery or app compatibility becomes a problem.

This still works, it is my only method of interaction with Teams

nevermind. the cache part of HDD won’t appear in task manager, it is transparent to the OS. But this HDD has only 8MB of cache, not really useful. Still it is very good if the HDD can stay responsive.

nope

Some HDDs are “hybrid”: they have a sizable amount (~8-16 GB) of SSD storage that the drive firmware stores the most often accessed blocks, rest is accessed from usual spining rust. You may have that kind of HDD.

An SSD will make a huge difference