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/
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