I had a bone marrow transplant in 2000 for Leukemia. My donor had no allergies and a different blood type and now, so do I. The no allergies was a nice benefit, but I wouldn't recommend a bone marrow transplant unless there is no alternative. At the time, one-year survival odds were about 60%. The process has improved, but there are still lots of ways to not survive a BMT. I was off work for 6 months and it wasn't until 2 years after the transplant that I could work 40 hours every week.
It took 4 years for me to wean off of steroids. I am still living with side effects of the chemo and radiation user to kill my bone marrow -- Cataracts and type-2 diabetes are common side effects.
I have one of these new Seagate hybrid laptop drives (1TB) and for many operations, it is significantly SLOWER than the 5400 RPM drive that it replaces. Sleep and wake are now very erratic compared to the old drive. Sometimes is takes a few seconds and sometimes, the Seagate hybrid drive goes off and stares at it's navel for 30-60 seconds. At work, I use all SSD and this hybrid drive is not anywhere near the same league for day-to-day operations. I'm debating now whether to go to a straight 7200RPM drive or SSD. This hybrid is a nice marketing stunt, but not much more.
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I had a bone marrow transplant in 2000 for Leukemia. My donor had no allergies and a different blood type and now, so do I. The no allergies was a nice benefit, but I wouldn't recommend a bone marrow transplant unless there is no alternative. At the time, one-year survival odds were about 60%. The process has improved, but there are still lots of ways to not survive a BMT. I was off work for 6 months and it wasn't until 2 years after the transplant that I could work 40 hours every week. It took 4 years for me to wean off of steroids. I am still living with side effects of the chemo and radiation user to kill my bone marrow -- Cataracts and type-2 diabetes are common side effects.
I have one of these new Seagate hybrid laptop drives (1TB) and for many operations, it is significantly SLOWER than the 5400 RPM drive that it replaces. Sleep and wake are now very erratic compared to the old drive. Sometimes is takes a few seconds and sometimes, the Seagate hybrid drive goes off and stares at it's navel for 30-60 seconds. At work, I use all SSD and this hybrid drive is not anywhere near the same league for day-to-day operations. I'm debating now whether to go to a straight 7200RPM drive or SSD. This hybrid is a nice marketing stunt, but not much more.