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Had my first BSOD today, think it might be time to upgrade laptops soon. Anyone have any recs like under $100? (hexbear.net)

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All I do on this is web browsing and retro gaming with emulators and old pc games.

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[–] userse31@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Imo the only thing worse then buying a used SSD is buying a used hard drive.

Made that mistake a few years ago. Damn thing slowly corrupts stuff. 0/10 would not recommend.

[–] Majestic@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 days ago

No one makes fake hard drives that report fake capacities though. At most in that market they might reset the SMART data to hide how long it has been on. There is a huge market for fake name brand SSDs that are just SD cards 1/10th the stated capacity and tons of flippers and other scammer assholes who sell them in convincing looking packaging.