Posted on 09/29/2020 2:37:08 AM PDT by sushiman
I’d go with the 256/1. Both will run at similar speed because they have their operating system on an ssd, but you’ll obviously be future proofing your storage needs with the large standard HD. It would be hard for most people to fill a terabyte of HD space.
512 SSD
16-32 GB Memory
I7 or I9 Core. If you are not doing much, an I5 core will suffice.
That’s all you will need. However, if additional storage is an option, a 1TB external storage device will still cost less than buying your new PC with 1TB of storage. Also, you now have a backup drive for your files.
“It depends if you want to keep control of your data. If you trust offsite storage with Microsoft, Amazon, et al., you don’t need much in the way of a hard drive. If you like to keep control of your data, go with the largest you can (and get a detachable backup).”
A OneDrive subscription would take care of this. Personally, I don’t keep anything private in the cloud.
Are current releases easy to use?
I am not sure what you are asking here--hardware? Software? OS?
Stay away from Lenovo they’re junk, I’ve had two and neither lasted very long and were trouble from day one. Acer, Asus, HP or Dell would be better choice. MS Surface if you can afford one, but they get pricey when you start increasing the HD space.
Better a 1TB 7200 rpm + 256GB SSD or perhaps Seagate FireCuda 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive Performance SSHD – 2.5 Inch SATA 6GB/s Flash Accelerated for $58.
Virtually all photos ( a few hundred currently ) . No audio/video .
Bingo.
“512 SSD
16-32 GB Memory
I7 or I9 Core. If you are not doing much, an I5 core will suffice.”
Dell and Lenovo models available in Japan have max 8GB memory and I5 core .
I collect a LOT of music and am using almost half of a 1TB drive - I have a 500 (or so) GB external because if the computer crashes, it’s easier to access backups from an external...and a catastrophic meltdown of the computer won’t trash a disconnected/powered down, external.
Build your own if you dare (cheaper in price per quality, and not too hard by the grace of God) or use a Custom PC Builder as at NewEgg Pray and press (but not too hard:).
Except that there is no proof he said it (not to defend all liberal Bill says)
One question to ask is how big is your current hard drive and how much do you have on it.
One thing I have started doing is digitizing old photos and videos. That takes up a lot of space pretty fast. And while I am backing it all up on to portable drives, it would overwhelm a 256g drive in no time.
My last two have been hybrids. SSD for fast boot up, 1T HD for archive. On the last one I just moved the hard drive from the old desktop over to the new that didn’t have one. Saved about $300 going with that option.
But if all you are doing is basic internet and email, the SSD is probably enough.
I just bought a Levano 27” similar to the one in your video reference. 1TB SSD 2 TB HHD 32GB RAM. I think you will be happy with it. This computer boots to password prompt in 14.5 seconds from power up. The sound is pretty good, screen o.k. I would have liked higher resolution but not that big a deal. I’ve only used the touch screen a couple of times. Pretty happy so far. The base cell phone charger is nice too. The only painful thing was transferring everything from the old laptop to this new machine.
I’d purchase a PC with a solid state drive because they are more dependable than standard mechanical drives,they are cooler and they use much less power. Oh!I forgot,They are also much faster.
Yeah but that wasn’t one of the choices. 8>)
See if you can find a Latitude 5400 or a 7480. You will get the 16gb. The 7480 is an I7.
The difference is pretty simple:
An SSD is a solid state hard drive. It is faster, and it is less likely to fail because there are no moving parts.
A traditional hard drive “spins”, thus it has moving parts. Its write/read speeds are slower because the computer needs to spin the platter to “find” the data. In an SSD situation, the write/read time is a lot faster.
SSD drives tend to be smaller, so the case of the computer can be smaller. And lighter. Not a huge deal unless you are carrying this thing around. Also, SSDs can stand being bumped and shifted in laptops.
The downside of the SSD is that you cannot get them as large. I used off PC storage for pictures and other things I don’t use a lot of. I tend to scan my bills instead of filing them. I back them up to two sources. I also use cloud storage for things like pictures.
I bought my first SSD Macbook about six years ago. The boot time is great and I never had a problem with it.
Well, regardless, given the limitations of the architecture at that time, you basically only had 1MB to work with. And the programmers had to jump through some hoops to use the upper end.
So he might have mused it briefly in a wry lament not as a serious statement of fact.
I agree with FreedomPoster - when factoring in performance, room for expansion/growth, and total cost, going with a 512G SSD and using an external drive for data storage is the ideal route.
I’m a firm believer in dedicated containers for data, separated away from programs and the operating system. If you system crashes you simply shuttle your storage drive to a different host machine and rebuild free from concern of losing anything.
Mimicing the strategies I saw in practice at work, I bought two 3 terabyte external drives to contain all my stuff. They are routinely synchronized and I keep one offsite at my brother’s house. Should I be burglarized or my house burns down (God forbid!) I will only lose a few days of data.
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