As to size vs speed?that's a great question!to be honest I'm curious as well . Size for me and as importantly as you point out finding things is important as well.
Not to pry might help to know what you do mostly. For example I am moving from a ton of computer gaming to auidiobooks and watching pulpy fun to. And to do some audulting . So being able to write thing is n Google's cloud or old school faxing without a a d headache ocaiocioly Skype Google Hangouts. Etc is a big thing. Fir you if your big stuff is reasearch writing, and review then maybe a large disk vs fast one might help. Can't make good suggestions without knowing what you fo though.:-)😁 On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 11:22 AM Nick Thompson <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> wrote: > Thanks, everybody. I now think I understand what is happening: the demand > for speed in hard disks has overtaken the demand for size. Or to put it > another way, for most of you, you will gladly accept the added cognitive > burden imposed by having two hard disks in return for the added speed > provided by a smaller internal ssd. > > > > As to my present situation, I am beginning to have a Dark Suspicion. It’s > just not right for somebody whose computer use is as primitive as mine to > be using up so much HD space. And as fast as I clear space on my hard > disk, it get’s used up again. I am wondering if some program isn’t > gobbling up space fast as I can free it. I found about a gig of old > I-tunes pod casts tucked away, and have been trying to beat I=tunes in to > submission. Are there other places to look for misbehaving programs that > are piling up garbage in large stinking plastic bags on my hard disk? > > > > Nick > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > Clark University > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > *From:* Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] *On Behalf Of *Gillian > Densmore > *Sent:* Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:44 PM > *To:* The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group < > friam@redfish.com> > *Subject:* 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 <r...@elf.org> 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 <mar...@snoutfarm.com> > 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" <nickthomp...@earthlink.net> > 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 <friam@redfish.com> > 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. 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