Terabyte update 2024

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HARDWARE By Will Fastie This year, the numbers are bouncing around and the trends are muddled. Except for the influences exerted by events such as flo
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A problem with YOUR email (I’ve got it too), and you cannot resend it ?

REALLY?

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One other thing about small SSDs is in running out of space.

In our org, we do a lot of BYOD, where users supply their own machines. Our corporate buying standards strongly recommend 512 GB as a minimum, but sometimes, users don’t see those (or perhaps ignore), or they’ve brought in machines that they purchased previously, typically because they’re price-sensitive.

At the moment, I’m supporting a couple of users that have only 256 GB SSDs, and both are struggling with space issues. Although in our context, users can make do on 256 GB, if it’s *only* business data (typically content from Office components), but if they have other personal data or any kind of digital media, then all bets are off. Ultimately, the only way a small SSD drive really works is if you’re putting all of your data in the cloud, and saving almost nothing locally.

At the moment, I have one Windows user that I’m pushing to upgrade to a TB, but the case that’s more difficult is a Mac user that has a machine where all storage is hard-soldered and can’t be upgraded. The only option for additional non-cloud storage is via external drive.

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Still Anonymous wrote:

At the moment, I’m supporting a couple of users that have only 256 GB SSDs, and both are struggling with space issues

Still Anonymous wrote:

Ultimately, the only way a small SSD drive really works is if you’re putting all of your data in the cloud, and saving almost nothing locally.

I use for the last 6 years a laptop with 256GB SSD as drive C: with 160GB free.
My data and software (portable) are on a 1TB HDD drive D:

I don’t backup my PC to the cloud but to an external 4TB SSD.

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GeeWizzz wrote:

REALLY?

Are you talking about the image problem some folks experienced this morning?

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Nothing about NMVE SSDs in your charts and very little in your discussion

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Will Fastie

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The figures in the article are not showing up in my browser – Firefox and chrome.

How can I access them?

Thanks,
Larry

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By any chance are you using a gmail interface to read the newsletter?  The current theory is that gmail is doing something.

see https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/we-are-aware-of-issues-with-images-in-todays-newsletter/ for updates

Susan Bradley Patch Lady/Prudent patcher

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sheldon wrote:

Nothing about NMVE SSDs in your charts

I am updating my spreadsheet this week so I have a year’s worth of history regarding NMVe drives. Next year I will show them.

However, last month I bought an upgrade for Obsidian, a Samsung 990 PRO 2TB Samsung V NAND 3-bit MLC PCIe Gen 4 x4 NVMe M.2. It had just been reduced from $263 to $199, and I was in the market anyway, so I snapped it up. I’m putting that one into the spreadsheet.

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Do really mean “Next year I will show them”?

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For my Desktop PC, I recently installed a PCIe Gen4 2TB m.2 NVMe SSD Samsung 990 PRO w/Heatsink — to replace a secondary storage internal SATA-III spinning-HDD.  The primary reason for the replacement was neither drive-speed nor price (though the new Gen4 NVMe drive’s benchmarks are phenomenal.)

I moved the previously-internal HDD to an external USB/e-SATA enclosure to use as needed.  Even though the HDD seemed blazingly fast with the internal SATA interface, and NOT otherwise a daily-performance bottleneck, it was being power-cycled to death whenever the PC was placed in “Modern Standby”.   For that reason I will never again use a HDD internally with a “Modern Standby” machine.  My last issue (there were a number of them) with “Modern Standby” solved!

 

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Will Fastie wrote:

It had just been reduced from $263 to $199

And this month it dropped to $179.

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sheldon wrote:

Do really mean “Next year I will show them”?

Yes.

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