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Data Storage
Apr. 30th, 2020 03:15 pmI use a 6 year old Notebook for all of my personal computer work.
After so many years together, mountains of entertainment, endless wastelands of work and the 2017 glass of water incident this sad beauty is starting to become problematic. Odd noises, overheating, screen freezes. Since January I have been looking out for alternatives, but I find that technology has moved forward, but not forward enough. The February options from my favourite suppliers all seemed like pricier downgrades.
yes yes, SSD is faster, more robust blah blah.
But I need STORAGE! and you try to fob me off with Intel i3 and 4GB RAM for a 1TB HDD? Nooooo!
Maybe I should just find less taxing hobbies? or work out a system of use with an external harddrive with a computer with more modern USB ports?
The April catalogues had much more promising specs. SSD+HDD hybrids, i5, Ryzen 5, i7, 16GB DDR4. But in PCs. Do I want to give up the freedom of a Notebook? I am seriously considering it. Going back to having a stationary tower of power. Plus it is much easier finding all the specs I want in a PC as so many stupid Notebooks are running around without optical drives like ipads pretending to be laptops.
Then I had to find out about NVMe SSD. Well that just about blows it all out of the water. I guess I'll hold out as long as this laptop finds it possible so that I can get a large NVMe SSD storage system for less than AUD$2000. Hopefully in a laptop, though I am open to a owning a Deepcool RGB case. oh all the pretty colours!
After so many years together, mountains of entertainment, endless wastelands of work and the 2017 glass of water incident this sad beauty is starting to become problematic. Odd noises, overheating, screen freezes. Since January I have been looking out for alternatives, but I find that technology has moved forward, but not forward enough. The February options from my favourite suppliers all seemed like pricier downgrades.
yes yes, SSD is faster, more robust blah blah.
But I need STORAGE! and you try to fob me off with Intel i3 and 4GB RAM for a 1TB HDD? Nooooo!
Maybe I should just find less taxing hobbies? or work out a system of use with an external harddrive with a computer with more modern USB ports?
The April catalogues had much more promising specs. SSD+HDD hybrids, i5, Ryzen 5, i7, 16GB DDR4. But in PCs. Do I want to give up the freedom of a Notebook? I am seriously considering it. Going back to having a stationary tower of power. Plus it is much easier finding all the specs I want in a PC as so many stupid Notebooks are running around without optical drives like ipads pretending to be laptops.
Then I had to find out about NVMe SSD. Well that just about blows it all out of the water. I guess I'll hold out as long as this laptop finds it possible so that I can get a large NVMe SSD storage system for less than AUD$2000. Hopefully in a laptop, though I am open to a owning a Deepcool RGB case. oh all the pretty colours!
