Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 9:00 AM Stewart Russell via talk wrote: > > On Thu., Jan. 5, 2023, 08:23 James Knott via talk, wrote: >> >> On 2023-01-04 22:33, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: >> > plus a boat part >> >> Anchor?  > > > Steady on there - we're not in the US where USPS fixed price

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On Thu., Jan. 5, 2023, 08:23 James Knott via talk, wrote: > On 2023-01-04 22:33, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: > > plus a boat part > > Anchor?  > Steady on there - we're not in the US where USPS fixed price shipping boxes have no weight limit, so people can ship lead ingots across the

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On 2023-01-04 22:33, Colin McGregor via talk wrote: plus a boat part Anchor?   --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

Interesting... I have ordered one of those drives (plus a boat part in order to get the total to over $35 and thus get free shipping). This will be a drive for a PC that I ordered in December. The December PC was done on the very cheap, so cheap its' only included storage was a 128 GB m2 SSD,

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On 2023-01-03 22:11, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote: BTW, crying over those prices sounds like 21st century first-world problems, considering the princely ransoms we paid for wee fractions of that much storage back in the day, or being in awe of the first sysadmin on Usenet who was running a

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On 2023-01-02 23:45, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: ... If you want a really good SSD, you want one with DRAM. Unfortunately they seem to be quite a bit more expensive. A 500G Crucial MX500 is $69.99 at Canada Computers (much worse on Amazon.ca). The 1TB MX500 is 101.50 at Amazon.ca.

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On Mon, Jan 2, 2023 at 11:45 PM D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > > There was one infamous exception: Amazon (used to) mingle their SD > cards with other vendors SD cards in their warehouse. So "sold by > Amazon" SD cards could actually be supplied by a disreputable vendor. > All hell broke

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

| From: Alvin Starr via talk | On 2023-01-02 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | Well they have drives up to 2TB. | | https://www.amazon.ca/stores/SPSiliconPower/page/CECA89EF-0FF0-46E2-AC1A-60C06C469C14?ref_=ast_bln Yes. I kind of think

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

On 2023-01-02 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Old advice: If you are still using an old machine, one that uses an HDD to hold the OS, consider replacing the HDD with an SSD. Why do I bring it up now? Because SSDs are getting even cheaper. Some think that they will get cheaper still

Re: [GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

That's cheap. But, if the OLD machine worth $35? :-) On 2023-01-02 14:17, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: Old advice: If you are still using an old machine, one that uses an HDD to hold the OS, consider replacing the HDD with an SSD. Why do I bring it up now? Because SSDs are getting even

[GTALUG] rejuvinating an old machine: inexpensive SSD

Old advice: If you are still using an old machine, one that uses an HDD to hold the OS, consider replacing the HDD with an SSD. Why do I bring it up now? Because SSDs are getting even cheaper. Some think that they will get cheaper still in the next little while. But this drive is cheap