[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

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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.
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> Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly (there are programs to make that automatic).
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> --Barry
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> On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson wrote:
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>     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? 
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>     Sorry to bother you with this.  I know the rest of you have real work. 

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