As long as we're on this topic, I can't get over how much faster my POC MacBook Air is than my not-so POC Mac Mini. The former has an ssd, the latter, a regular HD. The former has a 1.4 ghz i5 with 4GB RAM, and the latter a 2.3 ghz i5 with 16 GB RAM. That SSD makes the air scream.
On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Richard Gaskin <ambassa...@fourthworld.com> wrote: > Mark Waddingham wrote: > > > I'd get your hdd checked out asap. > > This is a good opportunity for all of us to remember that portable > large-capacity hard drives are dirt cheap compared to the cost of lost > data. A USB 3.0 1TB drive can be picked up at the corner market for about > US$60, and a 2TB drive for under US$85. > > I know everyone here already has multiple redundant daily backups anyway, > but there was a time many years ago when I didn't, and I paid for it dearly. > > Now I have one copy of everything in the cloud, three in my office, and > three at home which are rotated through the office so at least one of those > offsite backups is never older than 24 hrs. > > With an rsync script backing up is super-fast and as easy as typing a > single word in Terminal. Yes, I also use Time Machine, but relying on any > single backup isn't enough; drives fail, software fails, archives corrupt, > merde happens. rsync takes only a few minutes to learn and can move large > amounts of data with ease anywhere, a perfect compliment to other backup > systems for multiple redundancy. > > Far more than needed? Exactly. Disks are cheap, but time is the rarest > commodity in the universe. > > Last year my MacBook Pro started acting wonky so before I ran any > diagnostics the first thing I did was make a full backup. Good thing: the > mobo died half an hour later. I just copied the files I needed to another > machine and was back to work in minutes. > > -- > Richard Gaskin > Fourth World Systems > Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web > ____________________________________________________________________ > ambassa...@fourthworld.com http://www.FourthWorld.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > -- On the first day, God created the heavens and the Earth On the second day, God created the oceans. On the third day, God put the animals on hold for a few hours, and did a little diving. And God said, "This is good." _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
