Re: [FRIAM] SSD drive(s)
Qqu 90 bucks! man I think even i can afford that! Holly shit that's awesome roger!? where do you find those. Are those combatible with Ubuntu...if you even know that is. Before the mods (probably steve or whoever) say: uh seriusly dude? and at what time? I love ubuntuu for a lot of reasons...gaming...not so much--thought kinda moving away from that. Roger, or anybody know if Ubuntuu works with them?... My current drive is bing a bit weird even with ubuntuu. So I'll probably need to get a new one eventually. I'm think if I'd be doing that anyway just to get two one for windows for games or what else sucks ass to get wine working with it. And use a regular dumb ass drive for ubuntu., unless it works with SSDs now. Didn't about a year or so ago. Just a thought. FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Nick these all sound like pretty good ideas. To me it seems like their's always some need to get a pretty good sized hard drive. FWIW I didn't guess right for my computer. I thought 1 terabyte would be plenty. I am wrong. As to the cloud. Yeah I don't know. For back up? It's pretty good. I just think it's about the right thing for the job. I don't know if anyone else has suggested this: ram; Windows eats surprisling large amount. Question: do you particularly need or really want to stay with a laptop? HP isn't all that good of a computer company. Just my experience it hasn't been all that good since...forever at least the 90's and really since the 80's I'd say. My brother (Tim) a while back got a think pad. At the time seemed to like it. I don't know what their like now. Anyone have some opinions their anygood still? I thought his wife The reason I suggest thinking about a desktop. Is it might be a lot less hastle to get a good hard drive and ram. Plus installing them is not at all straitforward even at a shop with a ton of equipment. experience. I have done it with a hand me down from owen(dad). But let me tell you on the apple it was not that straitward and seriusly had a few moments: Oh fuck please tell me that dropped screw didn't hork something up. I totally agree with the SSD(their really big thumb drives basically)..and I didn't know that a 500 gig one is about 90.. that's awesome ! . On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 12:01 PM Roger Critchlow wrote: > I think getting the largest SSD you can afford is a good idea, 500G SSD > internal drives are around $90, a terabyte is less than twice that. Get a > laptop with a small SSD in the best technology and have someone swap in a > bigger and badder drive. > > Just don't lose the laptop. My dad spilled orange juice into his laptop > case once on a visit, never did find out why he was travelling with it. Or > maybe you should just do that first and solve all your data storage > problems up front? > > Micro SD cards are great, but I can't find any of mine other than the one > that's plugged into my laptop. And the slots tend to be all connected with > USB 2.0 buses last time I checked. Which I had to do by bench marking the > same card in a USB 3.0 adapter vs the builtin reader slot, because no one > specifies how the built ion SD card interface is provisioned. > > -- rec -- > > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:42 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez < > alfr...@covaleda.co> wrote: > >> Marcus idea is good. During years I have been using a cheap Chinese SD >> card as main drive using LINUX OS running on an old tiny laptop which lack >> of a mechanical hard drive. I have just updated to a newer Linux >> distribution and I also installed Dropbox there, so I always bring my >> important files. These days you could buy 1024 GB SD for less than 50 US >> dollars. >> >> On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels >> wrote: >> >>> If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: >>> https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 >>> >>> Marcus >>> >>> On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" >>> wrote: >>> >>> Thanks, everybody. >>> >>> In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 >>> year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard >>> drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a >>> ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have >>> to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing >>> eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to >>> lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge >>> SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so >>> what the hell. >>> >>> Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it >>> just COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking >>> out of your laptops, or am I missing something here? >>> >>> I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal >>> injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time >>> to suck it up? >>> >>> The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to >>> rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above >>> mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of >>> the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant >>> to help me straighten out the mess I have made. >>> >>> Nick >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> Nicholas S. Thompson >>> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >>> Clark University >>> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >>> >>> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? >>> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM >>> To: FriAM >>> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers >>> >>>
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
I think getting the largest SSD you can afford is a good idea, 500G SSD internal drives are around $90, a terabyte is less than twice that. Get a laptop with a small SSD in the best technology and have someone swap in a bigger and badder drive. Just don't lose the laptop. My dad spilled orange juice into his laptop case once on a visit, never did find out why he was travelling with it. Or maybe you should just do that first and solve all your data storage problems up front? Micro SD cards are great, but I can't find any of mine other than the one that's plugged into my laptop. And the slots tend to be all connected with USB 2.0 buses last time I checked. Which I had to do by bench marking the same card in a USB 3.0 adapter vs the builtin reader slot, because no one specifies how the built ion SD card interface is provisioned. -- rec -- On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:42 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez wrote: > Marcus idea is good. During years I have been using a cheap Chinese SD > card as main drive using LINUX OS running on an old tiny laptop which lack > of a mechanical hard drive. I have just updated to a newer Linux > distribution and I also installed Dropbox there, so I always bring my > important files. These days you could buy 1024 GB SD for less than 50 US > dollars. > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels > wrote: > >> If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: >> https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 >> >> Marcus >> >> On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" >> wrote: >> >> Thanks, everybody. >> >> In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 >> year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard >> drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a >> ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have >> to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing >> eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to >> lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge >> SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so >> what the hell. >> >> Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just >> COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of >> your laptops, or am I missing something here? >> >> I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal >> injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time >> to suck it up? >> >> The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to >> rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above >> mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of >> the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant >> to help me straighten out the mess I have made. >> >> Nick >> >> >> >> >> >> Nicholas S. Thompson >> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology >> Clark University >> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ >> >> >> -Original Message- >> From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? >> Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM >> To: FriAM >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers >> >> You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that >> *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay >> attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to >> put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of >> installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space >> requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual >> memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary >> drive(s). >> >> On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: >> > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and >> that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing >> since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives >> are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the >> new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 >> connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly >> available, and what is merely almost instantly available. >> > >> > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly >> (there are programs to make that automatic). >> > >> > --Barry >> > >> > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: >> > >> > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old >> > and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the >> standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk >> space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Depending on the size of the computer, with smaller ones being less likely to allow it, most of them will be able to have two hard drives. A frequent configuration now is to have a primary drive that Windows is installed on, which is an SSD, and a secondary larger non-SSD drive. Annoyingly (and driven by cost), the primary SSD drive tends to be relatively small (128-256 GB). My current personal laptop is running Windows 10 and has a ~240 GB primary SSD and a 512 GB non-SSD secondary drive. I'm a digital packrat, and so far that has been sufficient disk space. However, I would feel more comfortable having a larger primary SSD drive -- at least 480 GB (not sure why they don't map to the powers of two), although 1 TB -- and a larger secondary drive (also 1 to 2 TB). Unfortunately, that sort of configuration will almost certainly exceed a $1K price point. The SD card is a reasonable option for adding additional storage since most laptops do have a built-in SD card reader, although I'd confirm that it can handle a 400 GB card since that's bigger than the commonly available ones and the drivers may not have been updated to handle it (the 256 GB should be fine though since that size has been readily available for at least the past year or two). The only caution I'd have on that is to probably not install software to it (same with an external drive). An external SSD drive connected via USB3 (preferably) can be a relatively inexpensive way to store additional data, but it definitely has the issue of being an external contraption that has to be remembered if you're using it for anything other than backup. My recommendation, if your budget can handle it, is to bite the >$1K bullet and get a laptop with a 480+ GB primary SSD and a secondary 1+ TB internal drive (SSD or non). It's a lot easier to handle for daily use and Carbonite should be able to back up both drives to the cloud, and you can continue to use your existing 1 TB drive as another backup device (or upgrade to a larger drive so it can potentially handle everything you could store on the laptop). Brent From: Marcus Daniels To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 12:59 PM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 Marcus On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" wrote: Thanks, everybody. In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so what the hell. Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of your laptops, or am I missing something here? I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time to suck it up? The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant to help me straighten out the mess I have made. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM To: FriAM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary drive(s). On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Marcus idea is good. During years I have been using a cheap Chinese SD card as main drive using LINUX OS running on an old tiny laptop which lack of a mechanical hard drive. I have just updated to a newer Linux distribution and I also installed Dropbox there, so I always bring my important files. These days you could buy 1024 GB SD for less than 50 US dollars. On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: > https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 > > Marcus > > On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" > wrote: > > Thanks, everybody. > > In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 > year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard > drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a > ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have > to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing > eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to > lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge > SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so > what the hell. > > Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just > COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of > your laptops, or am I missing something here? > > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time > to suck it up? > > The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to > rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above > mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of > the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant > to help me straighten out the mess I have made. > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -Original Message- > From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM > To: FriAM > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers > > You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that > *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay > attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to > put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of > installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space > requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual > memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary > drive(s). > > On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and > that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing > since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives > are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the > new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 > connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly > available, and what is merely almost instantly available. > > > > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly > (there are programs to make that automatic). > > > > --Barry > > > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: > > > > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old > > and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the > standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk > space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying > larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} > Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are > people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or > telling some software to store to them? How’s that work? > > > > > > > > Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real > > work. > > -- > ∄ uǝʃƃ > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 Marcus On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" wrote: Thanks, everybody. In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so what the hell. Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of your laptops, or am I missing something here? I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time to suck it up? The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant to help me straighten out the mess I have made. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM To: FriAM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary drive(s). On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly available, and what is merely almost instantly available. > > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly (there are programs to make that automatic). > > --Barry > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: > > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old > and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or telling some software to store to them? How’s that work? > > > > Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real > work. -- ∄ uǝʃƃ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Thanks, everybody. In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so what the hell. Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of your laptops, or am I missing something here? I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time to suck it up? The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant to help me straighten out the mess I have made. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u??? Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM To: FriAM Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary drive(s). On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that the new > computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing since the SSD > drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives are around $50 > and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the new computer, add a > relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 connection, and make some > decisions about what you want almost instantly available, and what is merely > almost instantly available. > > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly (there are > programs to make that automatic). > > --Barry > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: > > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old > and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard > machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. > Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and > larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that > cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying > terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or telling some > software to store to them? How’s that work? > > > > Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real > work. -- ∄ uǝʃƃ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary drive(s). On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that the new > computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing since the SSD > drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives are around $50 > and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the new computer, add a > relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 connection, and make some > decisions about what you want almost instantly available, and what is merely > almost instantly available. > > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly (there are > programs to make that automatic). > > --Barry > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: > > I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I > was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine > offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how > people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard > disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage is > not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized USB > drives and running software from them or telling some software to store to > them? How’s that work? > > > > Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real work. -- ∄ uǝʃƃ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a *good* thing since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly available, and what is merely almost instantly available. Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly (there are programs to make that automatic). --Barry On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote: I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or telling some software to store to them? How's that work? Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real work. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
Nick, One approach is to run a program that converts the system into a virtual machine image. There are different codes for this depending on your virtualization software. (vmware, hyper v, virtualbox, etc.) Then you get a big (!) folder representing your old system that you can put on an external multi-terabyte drive and copy as needed. Marcus Sent from my iPhone On Oct 10, 2018, at 12:25 AM, Nick Thompson mailto:nickthomp...@earthlink.net>> wrote: I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or telling some software to store to them? How’s that work? Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real work. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers
I was about to give up on my 460 Gig hd HP because [it was old and] I was running out of disk space, only to discover that the standard machine offered by my university to replace it has LESS disk space. Wondering how people are storing stuff. Are the days of buying larger and larger hard disks and never making any decisions over? [sigh} Note that cloud storage is not an option to me for half the year. Are people buying terabyte sized USB drives and running software from them or telling some software to store to them? How's that work? Sorry to bother you with this. I know the rest of you have real work. Nick Nicholas S. Thompson Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology Clark University http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove
