Hmm question for nick to consider: how reliable are they now? On Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 2:12 PM Gary Schiltz <g...@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 <nickthomp...@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/ >> >> >> ============================================================ >> 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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