Marcus idea is good. During years I have been using a cheap Chinese SD card as main drive using LINUX OS running on an old tiny laptop which lack of a mechanical hard drive. I have just updated to a newer Linux distribution and I also installed Dropbox there, so I always bring my important files. These days you could buy 1024 GB SD for less than 50 US dollars.
On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 11:59 AM, Marcus Daniels <[email protected]> wrote: > If the issue is bulk, most laptops will accept these cards: > https://m.newegg.com/products/N82E16820173374 > > Marcus > > On 10/10/18, 11:31 AM, "Nick Thompson" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Thanks, everybody. > > In my world, hyperspeed is not a big deal. The big deal for this 80 > year old is cognitive burden. So a this point I have stuff on the hard > drive, stuff on a 1t drive and stuff on Carbonite, and this, for me, is a > ticket for disaster. So also is a system in which every where I go, I have > to carry not only the laptop but a hard drive as well. The one thing > eighty-year-olds don't need (as you will soon find out) is another thing to > lose. SO, the obvious solution is to spring for a a machine with a huge > SSD drive, on the theory that it is the last machine I will ever buy so > what the hell. > > Is there some reason why that ISN'T the obvious solution? Is it just > COST that has driven you all to have little boxes and wires sticking out of > your laptops, or am I missing something here? > > I HATE to spend more than 1K for a computer. It seems a mortal > injustice, an assault upon my mongrel puritan soul. But perhaps it's time > to suck it up? > > The other kind of "suck it up" message you all might give me is to > rationalize my digital storage so I don't need so much. But for the above > mentioned reasons, I will need help to do that, in which case, members of > the Local Church might suggest a Digital Storage Rationalization Consultant > to help me straighten out the mess I have made. > > Nick > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > Clark University > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of ? u??? > Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2018 9:33 AM > To: FriAM <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Advice on configuring computers > > You may already know this ... Because you're probably using that > *thing* called Windows, in order to do this effectively, you have to pay > attention to where programs are installed. Windows installers will try to > put everything on your "C" drive. But they usually give you the option of > installing it somewhere else. Given Windows' massive disk space > requirements for Updates, I tend to keep only Windows (and the virtual > memory page file) on the 1st drive and put everything else on the secondary > drive(s). > > On 10/10/18 8:25 AM, Barry MacKichan wrote: > > My guess is that your 460 GB drive is a spinning hard drive, and > that the new computer has a solid state drive (SSD). This is a /good/ thing > since the SSD drives are much faster. The prices on Amazon for 1TB drives > are around $50 and the 2TB drives are close. My suggestion is to get the > new computer, add a relatively humongous hard drive with a USB 3 > connection, and make some decisions about what you want almost instantly > available, and what is merely almost instantly available. > > > > Better yet, buy two hard drives and start backing up regularly > (there are programs to make that automatic). > > > > --Barry > > > > On 10 Oct 2018, at 2:25, Nick Thompson 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. > > -- > ∄ uǝʃƃ > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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