You see that because Microsoft (and other software vendors) subsidizes the price of the hardware in exchange for being preinstalled.
isugimpy
joined 10 months ago
Is the cooling on that laptop alright? 97C when it's at like 11% CPU utilization is super concerning.
https://github.com/Spearfoot/disk-burnin-and-testing is what I've used historically. Generally speaking I only care about doing that on a fresh build of a NAS though. When I'm replacing a single drive, I'll do a long SMART and call it done, since the failure of that new drive won't matter (as much) in the context of a replacement in the array.
KDE Connect might be a good fit for this.