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All-in-one PC hard drive replacement and speed-up

fixmytech — Tue, 30 May 2017 05:20:42 +0000

An all in one PC came in running very slowly. We diagnosed the hard drive as failing and replaced it with one of the new style SSD hard drives to increase the performance by up to 10X. The users data was recovered and transferred to the new drive. A very good upgrade for a nice machine. Fix My Tech specialise in repairing computers running slow in Melbourne. You might be interested in Noisy Computer Repair in Hampton

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NAS Network Storage Data Recovery in Caulfield South

fixmytech — Tue, 28 Mar 2017 05:08:07 +0000

Design firm network storage backup went down due to failing hard drive. We were able to recover their important project data on the same day and replace the failing drives. This is a premium service that we offer and we have a high success rate with data recovery due to Read more…

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Data Recovery in Caulfield

fixmytech — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 02:49:24 +0000

A customer came in who had deleted some important files a few weeks ago thinking they had been backed up. With our special software we were able to recover the wiped files and offered a reliable backup solution. A happy customer. Check out our post regarding Data recovery in Brighton

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Macbook Pro Speed Upgrade in Caulfield

fixmytech — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:41:56 +0000

Macbook Pro running a bit slow. Hard disk upgraded to a new 500GB SSD to reach speeds up to 10x faster. Data and settings were transferred from the old drive for the user’s convenience. Check out our post regarding Macbook Repair

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HDD Upgrades

fixmytech — Sun, 29 Jan 2017 23:23:47 +0000

A laptop was brought in that was not booting into windows. The drive was diagnosed as faulty and an upgrade to a solid state drive was recommended.

When a computer reads data from a hard drive it uses technology similar to any record, CD or DVD player. It is limited by the rotation speed of the platters to read and write from the disc that is spinning. Due to this moving part it uses a large amount of power and is fragile to shocks. One way that hard drives have improved over time is by increasing the RPM they spin at, a standard drive will run at 5400RPM, some hard drives will be labelled as “green” or “power saving” meaning that they operate at a lower RPM.

A solid state drive uses circuitry to store data and is has no moving parts. As it has no moving parts and doesn’t require a spinning disc it is less fragile to shocks. While an SSD upgrade doesn’t improve the clock speed of a computer, it means that the data can be read more rapidly allowing shorter boot, program and application launch times. An average improvement is about 1000% increase in speed of reading.

The upgrade for the laptop brought in was successful and the user’s data was migrated to the new drive. The laptop is faster than it was out of the shop, but set up how the user likes it.

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Laptop Hard Disk Replacement Bentleigh

fixmytech — Sun, 19 Jun 2016 23:43:28 +0000

A customer’s laptop refused to boot after a shut down. The hard disk was diagnosed to have failed and need replacing, the laptop was returned same day with a clean operating system install. The old disk was enclosed and available to be used as an external drive. Same day service left a customer very happy with his repaired laptop. All tested and working. Check out our post regarding Laptop Fan Replacement in Caulfield

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