On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 23:20:34 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

On 11/07/2012 19:32, Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:18:20 +0100, Mike Tomlinson
wrote:

En el artículo , Jaimie
Vandenbergh escribió:

The 12 hasn't grown, but he doesn't know if the drive came with them
unfortunately. Interpretation is the problem - there's no references
to interpret from

Give this a try:

http://www.ssd-life.com/

Has a SMART button which interprets the data a bit more sensibly. Say2
my Crucial m4 is good until Jan 25, 2041 by which time I'll be in a
wheelchair drooling and ****ing myself and past caring.

I don't think the other chap'll be best happy about having to install
Windows, but I'll pass it on - thanks.

Laptop with USB/SATA adaptor - just plug it into the disk and miss the
host system out of the equation altogether.

It's buried in an iMac... not the easiest place to dig it out from!
OTOH, it only takes half an hour to get a functional Windows system up
on it, so I have let him know.

Cheers - Jaimie
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