slow hard drive

[Me+Me]

i hate working on machines with mechanical drives now, they are soooo slow...  i find the first thing i do regardless of the problem, is look for signs that its failing, so i can talk owner into a ssd upgrade

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I do them on a weekly basis.
So annoying when i get the kind of people who say "im OK with its speed, im happy to wait and make a cup of coffee while it loads!" :facepalm:

I remember years ago in the days when mechanical drives and low ram and slow cpu's were the order of the day.  Sometimes booting computers didn't just give you time to make the cuppa - you also had time to drink it before the thing became usable.

One of my fav tricks was enabling hibernation and showing people how much faster the device restarted.