What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives
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Bought a few Intel 160GB drives refurbished on the egg for $38 each about a month ago. Made an old OptiPlex 3010 blazing fast for office work. Just waiting to put the rest in older machines to refresh them.
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Also I have never had a hdd fail on me at home. At work a few times over the years, but it is rare indeed. -
@momurda said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
Bought a few Intel 160GB drives refurbished on the egg for $38 each about a month ago. Made an old OptiPlex 3010 blazing fast for office work. Just waiting to put the rest in older machines to refresh them.
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Also I have never had a hdd fail on me at home. At work a few times over the years, but it is rare indeed.Wow that is cheap!
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
RAM won't improve system performance nearly as much as an SSD will, assuming you already have 4 GB of RAM, in a typical Office environment.
I find that even for browsing these days, I need 6GB. 4GB just can't do it.
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
But as tiagom mentions, do you really need 500 GB drive? 120 GB drives are more than enough for most of my users. Windows 10, Office 2016, Dragon Medical v12 all fit in under 60 GB. my users save all data to network drives so the left over extra desktop space is not used.
I dont even use that much myself!
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@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
RAM won't improve system performance nearly as much as an SSD will, assuming you already have 4 GB of RAM, in a typical Office environment.
I find that even for browsing these days, I need 6GB. 4GB just can't do it.
But you are a power user. From what i see common office workers tend to rarely need more then 4GB.
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I purchased a 512GB scandisk SSD for $120 during some sale. At that price they are throwaways. I only bought it so i could improve performance on some test VM's on my laptop.
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
Hell I wish I could buy a machine without an HD from Dell or HP. then I could put my own SSD in, use the OEM media they should provide (on USB, please!) and install a CLEAN install of windows without their crapware. win WIn WIN!
Agreed. There is no sense, no need for a computer used for some word processing to have a TB drive. Just because drive tech is cheaper, doesn't mean you should have it.
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@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
RAM won't improve system performance nearly as much as an SSD will, assuming you already have 4 GB of RAM, in a typical Office environment.
I find that even for browsing these days, I need 6GB. 4GB just can't do it.
But you are a power user. From what i see common office workers tend to rarely need more then 4GB.
Power user.... with nothing open but a web browser. Not much of a power user.
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How many tabs do you have open at a time?
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@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
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@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
I find the opposite, users tend to leave anything and everything open.
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
Thats my experience as well.
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@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
I find the opposite, users tend to leave anything and everything open.
Most users in my office don't even understood what a tab is. When MS changed the way icons worked on the start bar, i.e. no longer opened a new window each time you click on it. They discovered that they can get a whole new window if they choose IE from the start menu on windows 7. This stopped working for Win 10 unless you pin IE to the start menu.
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I definitely never spend time or money replacing hard drives. This is not at all on my radar as a cost center.
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@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
Only 10? I've got 12 on one monitor and 15 in the other at the moment, and this is what I call relaxing at home
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@aaron said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
when is the last time you had to replace a hard drive?
I had one done a couple hours ago. My team replaces drives daily
I reworded the OP, it wasn't adequately clear that this is only a question about desktop hard drives.
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@travisdh1 said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
Only 10? I've got 12 on one monitor and 15 in the other at the moment, and this is what I call relaxing at home
I hate opened tabs. I love tabbed browsing but I as soon as I am done with something I need to clear it out. I get anxious if I have too many open.
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@coliver said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@travisdh1 said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@Dashrender said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@scottalanmiller said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
@tiagom said in What If You Didn't Need to Replace Hard Drives:
How many tabs do you have open at a time?
More than 20. But that's less than a casual user. Tabs open is one of those things that power users do less, not more, than casual users.
really?
I probably have 10+ tabs... but my users are abnormal if they have more than 3.
Only 10? I've got 12 on one monitor and 15 in the other at the moment, and this is what I call relaxing at home
I hate opened tabs. I love tabbed browsing but I as soon as I am done with something I need to clear it out. I get anxious if I have too many open.
Same here. Open tabs are the devil.
