[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

Wed Oct 10 13:42:24 EDT 2018

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 <marcus at 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" <nickthompson at 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-bounces at redfish.com] On Behalf Of ? u???
>     Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM
>     To: FriAM <friam at 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.  I know the rest of you have real
>     > work.
>
>     --
>     ∄ uǝʃƃ
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