[McIDAS #DZN-645110]: McIDAS, CentOS, solid-state drive and Windows 10

Hi Kwan,

re:
> Yesterday, I finally upgraded my hard drive to a Samsung EVO 500GB SSD.
> Wow, what a world of difference in terms of speed and responsiveness for
> the whole system!

I replaced my Windows 7 laptop's 500 GB HD with the same SSD, and I
too saw a remarkable performance boost!  I did the replacement by
after making an exact copy of my HD, and then simply swapped the
drives.

re:
> But this came after the dreadful realization that my HDD
> appeared to be failing.  I thought that Windows 10 needed to be
> reinstalled.  But the reinstallation failed and it failed to boot into
> Windows after that, with the hard disk spinning endlessly as soon as it was
> powered on.  It turned out that chkdsk was still able to access the drive,
> and it found 13 unreadable sectors (in a 1TB HDD).  I had previously backed
> up most of the files but I still have some files that I want to retrieve.
> I am thinking of cloning the dying drive to a new drive.  Have you had
> experience on cloning dying drives for file recoveries?

I have cloned drives on a number of occasions, but not for file recovery.
My setup is includes an external, USB drive on which I keep all of my
perishable data, presentations, etc.  I then backup that drive to another
drive, so I have two copies of everything.  This requires that I update
the backup disk periodically, of course.

re:
> Since last month, my laptop would shut down itself all of a sudden without
> any warnings.  I did not know what that was and it took me a while to
> identify that as an automatic CPU overheating shutdown.  These kind of shut
> downs were bad for the HDD and Windows, and they apparently had shortened
> the life span of the drive.  The CPU would heat up when I visit some
> graphic-intensive websites and/or running more intensive McIDAS scripts.
> (Shutdown temp. > 70C)

This sounds like your laptop is poorly designed wrt cooling; you have
a fan that is not spinning freely or has failed; or you need to clean
(blow out with compressed air) the cooling pathways.  I have found
that I need to use canned compressed air to clean out the cooling
pathways ever month or so.

re:
> Even after I have installed the SSD yesterday, I apparently experienced a
> few overheat shutdowns (after taking only less than 10 minutes to install
> Windows 10 and rebooted to desktop)!

So, this is saying that your HD was not the cause of the overheating.  Again,
I suspect a bad fan and/or a need to clean the cooling pathways (or a poorly
designed laptop coolingwise).

re:
> I am not sure if the new Windows 10
> processes are more intensive for the CPU or not (Intel Core i7).

They may be.

re:
> Have you experienced such CPU overheating shutdowns before?

A couple of times, but that was before I took to cleaning out
the cooling pathways routinely using canned compressed air.

Cheers,

Tom
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Ticket ID: DZN-645110
Department: Support McIDAS
Priority: Normal
Status: Closed
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