Hard Drive Crashed! New Computer?

MotoJedeye

MotoJedeye

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Sat night my hard drive crashed on me! Thankfully, I backed up most of my data. Anyways, went computer shopping on Sunday and priced several very nice I7 laptops- some real good options available these days. Anyways, they replaced my hardrive so need for a new one. That said, the lenovo Y70 and Toshiba Qosmio are great desktop replacements and would be perfect for video editing.
 
I personally won't get a laptop for video editing.
If you need one, try to get one that has a msata SSD at least 128GB in size AND a mechanical hard drive. You get the speed on the SSD and the huge amount of storage on the mechanical drive.

The last laptop I bought is a base model I got on sale with a Pentium processor and a 500GB HDD, I replaced the HDD for one with 1000MB and found out I can upgrade to an SSD, a better display and a better CPU. I'm now trying to source a proper i7 processor and a msata SSD.
 
Shirou said:
I personally won't get a laptop for video editing.
If you need one, try to get one that has a msata SSD at least 128GB in size AND a mechanical hard drive. You get the speed on the SSD and the huge amount of storage on the mechanical drive.

The last laptop I bought is a base model I got on sale with a Pentium processor and a 500GB HDD, I replaced the HDD for one with 1000MB and found out I can upgrade to an SSD, a better display and a better CPU. I'm now trying to source a proper i7 processor and a msata SSD.
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Actually, good points, I agree with you somewhat. A desktop makes sense, but some of the more powerful laptops these days are just as a capable. Take a look at the Toshiba Qosmio, Lenovo Y70 or Dell XPS line.
 
C&C said:
Clevo laptops are by far the best performance for your money if you have a reseller in your country.
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That is EXACTLY the laptop I have, It's a rebadged Clevo W550 with a local brand. There is a problem though, getting spare parts. The people who import and rebrand Clevo here won't get any spares.
I tried to find a replacement LCD screen, the LVDS cable and the WWAN antennas and couldn't source any. Not even from Ebay.
They're a good bet if you buy the full-feature model (the one with ALL options) because after buying it, you won't get the chance to upgrade.
Mine for example came without anything on the 3G/MSATA slot. I tried attaching a 3G card only to find that the SIM slot is missing. I got and soldered the slot and the antennas were missing. I installed some Lenovo antennas and 3G worked. Couldn't fit the antennas inside the computer so I ditched the 3G card and now I need to buy a msata SSD to populate the slot.
The hard drive was upgraded from 500GB to 1000GB and mine came with a 1366x768 TN screen. It can be upgraded to a 1920x1080 IPS LCD but it needs the LCD panel (can source it from ebay) and a two channel LVDS cable (can't find it anywhere). It comes with a single channel LVDS for the crappy screen.
 
Yeah they resell to a lot of companies who rebrand them. Spares are easy to get in the UK and Germany, I'm not sure about elsewhere.
 
Shirou said:
I personally won't get a laptop for video editing.
If you need one, try to get one that has a msata SSD at least 128GB in size AND a mechanical hard drive. You get the speed on the SSD and the huge amount of storage on the mechanical drive.

The last laptop I bought is a base model I got on sale with a Pentium processor and a 500GB HDD, I replaced the HDD for one with 1000MB and found out I can upgrade to an SSD, a better display and a better CPU. I'm now trying to source a proper i7 processor and a msata SSD.
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Last laptop I had lasted about 2 years before it started to slow down and died very similar to yours. except it had a 1T hard drive, and 16Ram I tried to edit videos of my old band on there but it would crash. my Desktop hasn't got that much more going on inside but its 2 years old and still runs as good as it always has! same brand and everything. Laptops just don't do it for me.
 
C&C said:
They shouldn't just slow down by themselves.
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Pretty much every piece of technology past 1996 has some sort of decaying factor, it was explained in a Rooster teeth podcast I think. Would find it but there is like 200+ and I don't remember which one :P
 
C&C said:
2 years for a processor won't be that though, probably user error with the software :p
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Its something to do with the fact we are making greater and greater numbers, without increasing stability, back 20+ years ago the greatest minds in the computer industry would say you will never own a Drive over 250mb because data was so unstable and they thought it couldn't be done. Look at us now, but data is still as corruptible.
 
The only thing killing and slowing down computers is lazy programming, taking speed and storage for granted. Problem is, on any computer there is not only one piece of badly programmed software, there are many and they all hog resources, slowing everything down.
On laptops there is another factor. The heatsink is smaller, more efficient but it gets clogged with dirt more easily. When clogged, the computer starts to overheat, then it does two things, it throttles the CPU down so everything runs slower to keep the temperature in check or it turns itself off.

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The laptop I have, with the Pentium Processor, can edit my vlogs but it will take it's sweet time rendering the final video. I did it once on the go, with 4GB of RAM wasn't that bad.
 
1080p 60fps dual camera editing with multiple audio tracks does require some grunt though!

Thank god for video proxies.
 
I found the biggest improvement to rendering speed came from having an NVidia GPU which could enable hardware acceleration on Sony Vegas.
 
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