[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

Wed Oct 10 14:01:04 EDT 2018

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.

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On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:42 PM Alfredo Covaleda Vélez <alfredo at 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 <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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