El Capitan Software Update Apology
About a month ago I had a minor meltdown and vented here in the newsletter.
I have a very nice
MacBook Pro laptop that I inherited from my daughter and use as a backup machine.
I don't use it that much, however in the past few months I started to edit some videos on it.
When I took possession of it twenty-one months ago, I upgraded the RAM to 8 GB and I put in a new hard drive.
It was a solid-state drive (SSD). I knew that these drives had an inherent flaw in that they'd fail
if they're used too much. I guess that's the best way to say it. They have a limited number of read/write actions that can happen.
I thought that the El Capitan Apple update borked my machine. Guess what?
The SSD died. It had reached its limit of storing and retrieving data. When you get to a certain point, the drives act like a drunken
sailor.
Bottom line: I was WRONG about it being Apple's fault and it's back to SATA spinning platter drives for me.
Can you believe I purchased a SATA drive that's got one terabyte of space on it for under $60? Isn't that insane?
Do your research before you invest in a SSD. Be SURE you're backing up all your data all the time. I
do that using the Time Machine software supplied by Apple.
That's enough for today.
Let me know the good, bad or ugly about Sixt if you've used them or know of a friend who did.
Tim Carter
Founder - www.AsktheBuilder.com
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