Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-17 Thread krystof
On 15 Jul 2023 2:30:08 CEST, Maureen L Thomas wrote: > So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's > but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure > what is better. I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still > am not sure.

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/7/23 17:01, Keith Bainbridge wrote: I was interested because my connection has timed out a couple of times and the only solution I found was rebooting. Hasn't dis-connected for a few days, so maybe this issue is resolved. I have nothing concrete to add but I see the connections are

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 16:40:13 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > On 15/7/23 16:23, Keith Bainbridge wrote: > > Is this done via gnome-settings? Or is there now a better option. > > An URL would be good > > > I set it up on my Debian 12 system first by using gnome desktop. My > mate > desktop then

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/7/23 16:23, Keith Bainbridge wrote: Is this done via gnome-settings? Or is there now a better option. An URL would be good I set it up on my Debian 12 system first by using gnome desktop. My mate desktop then inherited the map I later found that you can run the cloud mapping

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Sat, 15 Jul 2023 11:37:17 +0800 jeremy ardley wrote: > With Debian 12 you also have the option of using your Google Drive as > a virtual folder on your system, where everything is actually kept at > the Google end. Jeremy Is this done via gnome-settings? Or is there now a better option.

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-15 Thread Keith Bainbridge
On Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:08:56 -0700 David Christensen wrote: > If you computer has an available 2.5" drive bay and SATA port, I > suggest that you install a small, fast 2.5" SATA SSD for your > operating system, programs, and "hot" data (home directory, e-mail, > and working directories), and use

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-14 Thread jeremy ardley
On 15/7/23 09:05, zithro wrote: Generally, you put your OS and programs on an SSD, so your experience is snappy: they are fast and have a low latency. Then you put your data on HDDs (rotating rust), because you don't need speed but gigas/teras. As you seem to want to buy a new computer

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-14 Thread David Christensen
On 7/14/23 17:30, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure what is better.  I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still am not sure.  SSD's are faster but

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-14 Thread Peter Ehlert
On July 14, 2023 5:30:34 PM Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure what is better. I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still am not sure. SSD's are

Re: General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-14 Thread zithro
On 15 Jul 2023 02:30, Maureen L Thomas wrote: So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure what is better.  I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still am not sure.  SSD's are faster

General question regarding SSD and harddrive

2023-07-14 Thread Maureen L Thomas
So I have been looking at new computers and most of them come with SSD's but they are so much smaller than my 2 TB computer that I am not sure what is better.  I read a couple of pieces on different groups but still am not sure.  SSD's are faster but them have a quarter of the room for