[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Barry MacKichan]

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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