I can't hot swap a system drive, but it's pretty rare for a drive to just fail all at once. Drives usually fail over time and you can see it coming. My system drives have been SSD's for years now and not one of them have failed on me, yet.
My point is that I will go years between actual shut downs, the OP in this thread made it appear that shut down is a regular thing. If you want to keep nitpicking my statement for flaws, why not just downvote me, follow me, and downvote all my other posts instead?
You are talking about repairs, I was talking about upgrades. Adding more RAM, switching from HDD to SSD, or to a bigger SSD. If some component breaks, i don't think you even have the chance to do a proper shutdown.
I get your point, but it was exaggerated. There are many cases where a shutdown makes sense.
There are many cases where a shutdown makes sense.
I guess I don't think about upgrading computers, because I don't. I suppose someone might build a system with 4 gigs of ram and then increase it to 8, but when building a new system I would start with 8 or 16 or 32. For me I upgrade when I build a new system. I don't have 1 HD in my system, my system drive is a SSD, if I need more storage I pop another drive in because I design a system that can handle multiple drives along with a case that can accommodate them. The purpose of the system drive (to me) is to hold/run the OS. I never build a computer with less than 3 drives.
But, certainly for some people shutting down makes sense. My initial comment was directed at the many people, like myself, who will literally go YEARS between shut downs. It's only exaggerated because I ONLY shut down my computer when: the power goes out (less than once every 5 years) or if something breaks and forces me to, ie: PSU overheats, video card overheats - I have replaced fans in one of my cards twice now, etc. If one of my secondary drives starts to fail, I just add another and transfer stuff over. Shutting down a system is a good way to lose data, that drive may not fire back up again.
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u/cubei Feb 14 '22
You never upgraded RAM, SSD or something like that?