Solve the right problem before buying a solution · Proposed air date:
A caller wants an expensive solid-state drive because several laptop drives have rapidly corrupted data. Dr. Dave notices that the plural “drives” means replacement has already failed, explains that memory, a connector or the motherboard may be responsible and warns that a costly new drive could immediately reproduce the same failure.
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Proposed recording date: 2008-07-12. The exact broadcast date may differ.
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