Seriously, weekly I restart the laptop to clear out the cache and ram and whatnot and from restart to launch then opening chrome it’s like a hot minute tops. Meanwhile back on my old hdd laptop a restart was a 10-15 min affair.
Moore’s Law!
Seriously, weekly I restart the laptop to clear out the cache and ram and whatnot and from restart to launch then opening chrome it’s like a hot minute tops. Meanwhile back on my old hdd laptop a restart was a 10-15 min affair.
Moore’s Law!
mine is still chugging along as a secondary, storing linux isos and some games. it’s more than 15 years old. i’m replacing it with a high capacity hdd when it dies simply because they are still the cheapest way to have a lot of space if you don’t care about speed.
i assume they will have a small resurgence with the memory shortage and consolidation of the do you have a loicense internet over the next few.
Ain’t that the fucking truth. My wife and I have a local file server with 16TB of platter drives on it for this very purpose (RAID10 for data safety purposes mind you, so 8TB;We really do not trust high capacity platter drives due to history).
We keep a 1TB NVMe on it for the OS drive though. Gods know the hardware is already old enough on it (8GB DDR4 with an i5-6600) and we don’t need it being any slower than it already is.
Fair warning on platter drives though. They’re starting to get affected by the AI shortage due to the sheer necessity of mass storage in data centers and people getting desperate for local storage. The price hike on them isn’t going to be nearly as dramatic as anything on solid state drives and RAM were though.