Anyone taking or making photo images will have the issue of a the hard-drive filling up like a jug under a gutter in a thunder storm. My big camera builds 16meg files inside and then the developing will add at least another 10.
But external hard drives are no longer an arm and a leg so adding a few to the system in a relay is easy. Plus they can act as back-up's. Something I'm very aware of since I lost so many last year with the Win 10 brain fart of mine.
No, what I did was run the test program from the RAM maker Critical and discovered I could add a stick doubling the power of the computer.
And all for the glorious total of €21, shipping included.
But external hard drives are no longer an arm and a leg so adding a few to the system in a relay is easy. Plus they can act as back-up's. Something I'm very aware of since I lost so many last year with the Win 10 brain fart of mine.
No, what I did was run the test program from the RAM maker Critical and discovered I could add a stick doubling the power of the computer.
And all for the glorious total of €21, shipping included.
Oh, I know! Isn't it great to get some of those big files off the machine?!?! Those photos are a big drain on your system. Are you already seeing a difference in the speed?
ReplyDeleteThe main issue is they need to be backed up to a few different storage place.
DeleteAnd tiz blazing fast.
I worry about having hard drives full of pictures. What will become of them when we aren't? One of my goals to get done sometime is to go back to printing them off and making albums of the best ones so that future generations can discover them. While I'm still around here on earth, I have them all automatically backed up to the cloud which doesn't limit me in terms of space. As a side benefit, every file on the cloud can be pulled up on my phone anywhere in the world I can get a signal.
ReplyDeleteI think the longer things go we'll see the HD become much more sound. They have a failure rate that's quite high at the moment. At least the connector heads do anyway.
DeleteI almost always double or triple my RAM when I get a new computer. RAM is cheap and it is super easy to install into a computer.
ReplyDeleteYes. I've lately learnt that tiz far better and vastly cheaper to get a Laptop or PC with open ports that you fill yourself that to buy fully spec'ed.
DeleteI've not been 100% happy with my last laptop purchase and I'm not sure I've even attempted plugging my external drive to it. That right there tells you how important all the stuff I have saved on there is to me! Then again, I don't do the photograph work you do...
ReplyDeleteIf you keep the internal drive relatively slimmed down you'll keep it fairly fast.
DeleteIt is amazing how cheap data storage has become--I've come a long way since my first computer with 64k ram and a 30 meg hard drive.
ReplyDeleteJeepers yes. I have Sd cards with larger storage.
DeleteMy first computer had dual floppy drives that stored 512kb each!
ReplyDeleteMy old XP had a floppy drive too.
DeleteMy old XP had a floppy drive too.
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