[FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.

[Marcus Daniels]

I have a Das keyboard too, one of those with no key labels.  ☺
Btw, the new Cascade Lake machines are out now and offer Optane memory modules.   I think this could be transformative in computational science -- open-ended persistent memory that is byte-addressable.

From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>
Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Date: Friday, April 12, 2019 at 7:46 AM
To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam at redfish.com>
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] keyboard and hard drive recommendations wanted.


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<mailto: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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