[FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers

[Gillian Densmore]

Hmm question for nick to consider: how reliable are they now?

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 2:12 PM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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