To be fair a spinning disk can also die silently, but it *could* make
noise.
Hmmmm....maybe an interesting feature would be an audible alarm for
SMART errors beyond a certain threshold. Or maybe Windows 10 should
just be clever enough to pop up an alert.
------ Original Message ------
From: "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: 11/14/2017 4:51:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] computer upgrade
yes, i've heard that about SSD. Scary...
Thanks
----- Original Message -----
From:Steve Jones <mailto:[email protected]>
To:[email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] computer upgrade
more RAM, always more RAM
but also depends on what theyre doing
thats the equivalent of my 4 or 5 year old laptop which works great
for me because i teamview into my production machine which i run dual
xeon processors, tons of RAM etc and still hang that one sometimes
We do thinkcentres for standard office type users and thinkstations
for powerusers. Lenovo has a configurator that will spec your machine
pretty well for you. We base everything on current price to decide
what to get
but memory is cheap, 16gb always keeps you in good shape with little
future need to throw sticks away to upgrade
The benefit to spinning disks is you get noise to let you know one is
dying, ssd will let you know by being dead
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:30 PM, Lewis Bergman
<[email protected]> wrote:
Not all are SSD. I am not really good at it either but I do some
stuff for dispatch centers. We usually spec a 250GB SSD for the OS, a
1TB HDD for backups. If it is a desktop I like 16GB as it seems like
you still get memory erros if you open lots of things at once.
On Tue, Nov 14, 2017 at 3:24 PM CBB - Jay Fuller
<[email protected]> wrote:
a client of mine is looking at some new computers for their office.
they've run the specs by me - - i'm not as up on this stuff as i
used to be.
would you change anything?
SFF
1 x Core i7 7700 / 3.6 GHz
RAM 8 GB
HDD 1 TB
DVD-Writer
HD Graphics 630
GigE
Win 10 Pro 64-bit
The graphics look odd - but i assume they're onboard.
What do ya'll think of solid state drives now vs. regular hard
disks?
I assume its all solid state now?
