The hard drive was tested and was fine. Paul W.
On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 7:31 PM, Bill Barry <[email protected]> wrote: > On Aug 23, 2017 7:54 PM, "Vedanta Teacher" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Everyone, > > My Dell Insperon 15.6" that I was going to use in school this > September just died (the Motherboard no longer recognized > the Hd). > > > Are you sure it is not just a bad hard drive? Will it boot from a DVD or > USB drive? > > Bill > > > > I need reliability & durability more than anything. I'll need it > to last at least 1 year. > > I'll be going to school for Software Engineering & Embedded > systems e.g. HTML, Perl, Unix, etc, etc. > > I was thinking about replacing it with a Lenovo ThinkPad T570: > > 15.6" display > > 32 GB DDR4 2133Mhz SoDIMM Ram > > For the hard drive they show : > > Intel 180GB SSD 2.5 SATA3,OPAL2.0 > or > 512 GB SSD OPAL2.0 PCle-NVMe > > (The 1 Tb version is $140 more.) > > Q: What is the difference between > > SATA3,OPAL2.0 & PCle-NVMe? > > As an OS I'll probably be running Linux Mint, I just don't have > time to tinker with new operating bases at this point. > > Blessings, > Paul W. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
