[FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

[Barry MacKichan]

Late to the conversation, but here’s my 2 cents:

The best keyboard I’ve used is the Das keyboard for the Mac. Mine has 
cherry brown switches; the cherry blue are a bit noisier. The aural 
feedback helps my typing. It has all the Mac keys I need, and also the 
Windows keys, a necessity since I use both OSes via virtual machines.

They are expensive, but I spend a good bit of my life tapping at it.

Again, solid state drives are more expensive, but few things come as 
close to making your computer seem brand new and twice as fast. The 
switch to SSD reminded me of the ’80s when every new processor 
generation doubled your speed.

--Barry

On 9 Apr 2019, at 20:30, Gary Schiltz wrote:

> I had a "Happy Hacking" keyboard when I last worked for a living, and 
> loved
> it. The "light" version that I had doesn't have the Cherry switches, 
> but it
> was still good for the price. As for hard drives, they are cheap as 
> heck
> these days, and I have no real preference among the major brands (WD,
> Seagate, Hitachi).
>
> On Tue, Apr 9, 2019 at 7:08 PM Gillian Densmore 
> <gil.densmore at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Alas my super nice keyboard from at least 2 years ago is showing age 
>> and
>> having been used pretty well. Mechanical Cherry Mx Green (blackwidow 
>> if
>> that makes a difference)   feels fantastic to type on. The key cap 
>> for
>> space is wearing, and I feels like the swich to it and vowles are 
>> loosing a
>> bit of spring.
>>
>> Any recomendations for a solid replacement? Loved a logitech I got as 
>> a
>> gift years ago, other than faulty "e" key it was also  fantastic and 
>> served
>> me very well.  Leentwards mechanicle because they feel fantastic. Not
>> ,must. full sized required.
>>
>> Hard drive:
>> Looking for hard-drive recomendations as well. I Ask because I ran 
>> FSCK
>> and the graphicle disk checker tool that came with ubuntu 19 (forget
>> thename) FSCK only said " have 50 bad sectors" while disks(?) 
>> cautioned
>> spin up and spin down are a little on the week side.  Not surprising 
>> as
>> it's a 4 year old hard drive that's been used pretty hard.  Also it's 
>> for a
>> desktop PC, regular internal hard-drive. Nothing fancy.
>> Thanks!
>>
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