I've already mentioned my dead notebook computer. I would have to say it lasted just over a year before it couldn't be used anymore without being taken to an HP authorized service center. Of course, I didn't have an extended warranty on it, so I shelved it.
I'm now using Clonezilla to back up my MSI Wind netbook Windows XP partition, using a USB thumb (flash) drive. I actually found it by accident when I was looking for a suitable disk imaging application for Windows. For the uninformed, Clonezilla runs on Debian Linux.
A relative newcomer in the computer hardware industry is the solid-state drive (SSD). The latest SSD drives feature state-of-the-art NAND flash chips and an ultra-fast controller. The new solid-state drives have some advantages over the traditional hard disk drives (HDD) and have their fare share of disadvantages as well.
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