[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Gary Schiltz]

Late to the party here, but here is my perspective: the apparent speed of
laptops I've upgraded has increased 5X or more just by changing the old
spinning hard drive for an SSD. This mostly shows up in startup and
shutdown, and launching programs. Some of us love tinkering with stuff and
making it work better, but I'm unfortunately not in a location to be able
to physically help.

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 1:25 AM Nick Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net>
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?
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> Sorry to bother you with this.  I know the rest of you have real work.
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> Nick
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> Nicholas S. Thompson
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> Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology
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> Clark University
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> http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
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