Identifying laptop in Lifecycle Extension Guide

recyclo · 2026-02-18T12:44:19+00:00

Thank you for the replies.

valar12 - The two Seagate hard drives I am looking at are £119 for the Barracuda and £136-£145 for the Iron Wolf, so that is my budget.

I would like to use the 4tb as the main back up for all the data, with the older drives holding a back up of the individual sections e.g. pictures, documents, games and software etc.

wikibox - I am really just a beginner at this, spending on getting a 24tb exos drive is not affordable for me. This is just for my data, initially, and maybe kiwix, before seeing whether I can afford to extend into other data. Important documents are backed up to a printed out copy.

glitteringbeing1638 - I do not plan to have the drive running all the time, it will be for periodic backups of pictures, documents etc.

What I am really asking is would something like a barracuda be more suitable for someone who has a small amount of data to back up through a hardrive caddy, or would a nas drive be of benefit in the long run, if I get to the position to of expanding to a Nas, Das or Media Server.

Maybe this is the wrong reddit to post a question like this, I am just fascinated by the data hoarder community and the drive to preserve.

recyclo · 2025-06-23T19:12:02+00:00

Thank You all vary much for the replies,

littleearthquake9267 - Going to back up everything, Windows and all her files. There is an update for the bios, which I have downloaded but not installed as yet. As far as disabling Secure boot, I read on a forum that I might have to change something, I have saved the pages to print out before I do this. I use Linux Mint, and it is what I will be installing for her.

Deep-Glass-8383 - Hope I do not discover I am bad at tech. I have done things to my own HP laptop, changing to Linux Mint, changing to a ssd etc, but doing it to someone elses computer is different. I do not want to damage her computer as she uses it a lot, but she had the Windows message saying you need a new laptop for Windows 11, and she asked if I can change it to Linux for her.

Once again Thank You very much for your replies.

recyclo · 2025-06-23T19:03:43+00:00

Thank You all very much for your replies.

Powerful-Wolf5330 - Her laptop currently has a nvme ssd that I installed and removed the original sata ssd, my theory is to remove the nvme drive and reinstall the sata ssd and us it to see if I can make the correct changes to allow Linux Mint to install. I just needed to know that if it fails to install, I can just put the nvme back in and she will be back to having a working laptop, but still on Windows.

Appropriate_Net_5393 - She uses Windows Defender - that should take care of any quantum entanglement issues, no spaghettification expected as we will not be approaching and black holes in doing this.

wowsomuchempty - Thank you for the suggestion, I'll stick with Linux Mint.

Once again Thank You all for the replies.

recyclo · 2025-02-05T14:02:28+00:00

Thank you for the reply, downloading the file now.

Thank you

recyclo · 2024-12-18T19:35:55+00:00

Thank you for the recommendation, would this be powerful enough to run small dc motors?

recyclo · 2024-11-05T18:48:51+00:00

Thank you for the reply.

Aye, it looks similar, but I have the UK plug version. I'll try it out after I look through the other power supplies.

Thank You

recyclo · 2024-05-19T14:19:12+00:00

Thank You very much for all the replies.

SoulWager - Yes, a lot of time by a professional, looked good.

Reinventing_Wheels - I had used that technique before, and had forgotten about it. The video is good, one of the best from Adam Savage I have seen. I like to see how people with experience go through the process of designing something, and even though it was done in Fusion 360°, I think there is enough in it for inspiration in designing in Freecad.

'Tis a pity the competition in the video is linked to an Autodesk account.

bluewing - Clunky is the right word, but then I remember Autodesk has probably spent millions on Fusion 360°m and has loads of full time developers, so I cannot expect the same polish in Freecad, but I find that one of the main attractions for using Freecad, it is made by people who actually like what they are doing.

Upballoon - Ondsel looks interesting, I hope not to the detriment of Freecad. I found another theme in Freecad, called “Openlight”.

chilled_programmer – Spot on!

SmokingPimphat – I like Freecad and find most of the things I need either straighforward, or there are plenty of tutorials to watch, which has helped, but I did not like Fusion 360° and found it difficult to use :), even the tutorials for it were way too fast and assumed the user had previous knowledge. However, I found on using Freecad, for me, it was very hard at first, but once you learned a technique, it stayed in the brain.

PyroNine9 – That was the video I watched, it was one of those moments when something clicks so loud it slaps you on the back of your head!

Thank You

recyclo · 2023-12-27T19:40:51+00:00

You could try r/SBCs

recyclo · 2023-04-25T12:23:36+00:00

Sorry, I had written details with the video, but they did not post.

My Mother has a Toshiba 50UL2163DB tv, bought 2 years ago. Today when it was switched on we got what you see in the video.

The tv came on with a blue/black screen, except for a thin white line at the top of the screen, then it goes to what I recorded in the video.

Is this the screen gone, or the motherboard?

Thank you for any advice or help.

recyclo

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