Re: Damage of physical memory and hard disk



hard disks are high risk, simply because they contain moving parts. if you
run checkdisk from time to time, you might start seeing reports of bad
sectors. replacing it before it breaks completely saves you lots of trouble
later on.

bad RAM usually manifests itself in blue screens whenever there is a lot of
memory activity.
compiling a large project will often trigger a crash if you have bad RAM.
just replace it.

all things break after a fashion. that is why i prefer spending a bit more
on quality parts, rather than buying no-name stuff.

kind regards,
Bruno.



"nly" <nlyee2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> As time goes, is that true that parts of physical memory and hard disk
> will
> be damaged?
>
> How does this affect running of applications?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>


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