-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 31/12/2019 16.16, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 31/12/2019 09:21, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 31/12/2019 14.37, Anton Aylward wrote:
A 16TB hard disk drive is on sale for far less than you'd think 16TB HDD for just over $400
Interesting, if it means 8T will drop in price ;-)
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I see mention that the gap between HDD and SSD prices has "all but disappered for sub-1TB capacities" which is interesting.
The basic Linux OS as a healthy instlation can fit on under 500MB never mind 500GB, probably less. Let's not forget that memory is cheap and you probably can manage without swap unless you are doing something intense like photediting.
Depends what you call cheap.
My current motherboard only admits 8 GiB, and I end using 6 GiB of swap after a few days easily. I have a new motherboard waiting for memory purchase: 64GiB is 359€ to 919€.
None of the "cheap" are in stock. The first entry is 769€. And I forgot to consider the buss frequency.
OK so 'cheap' is relative.
I see the price of PC, PC-100, DDR, DDR2, DDR3 memory at Egg and on eBay. As technology progresses it gets cheaper. And motherboards accommodate more, so you might argue costs stay the same ...
Right. And if I want the board to last 10 years as the previous one did, I have to max the ram. Several of the ram offering have led lights that blink in complex patterns that can be programmed. Wow. Why on earth would anybody want that? I must be getting old.
My Optiplex 755 now has 8G and it's been a long time since it swapped. It takes a fair bit of intense photediting to make that happen. In reality, a SSD on swap might not help that much, it need better, faster rendering. I'd be better off getting a more powerful/faster/morememnory graphics accelerating card than a SD. it's not that photoediting isn't cpu and memory intensive, it's that having a good rendering engine counts for a lot, takes a load off the CPU and memory. Provided your software knows how to use it.
You do not need photo editing to eat the memory. Just open Thunderbird, Firefox (with a few windows) and Libreoffice (with a few calc sheets and documents). Then, perhaps open shotwell to search, not edit, for a photo. Open another firefox profile or two. Perhaps a java application that controls the TV. The antivirus daemon, the antispam daemon... Then use them for two days. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iF0EARECAB0WIQQZEb51mJKK1KpcU/W1MxgcbY1H1QUCXgufpwAKCRC1MxgcbY1H 1e7IAJ99m/FvNQnB1/nxq+u6qQ8srO3+vwCeIe9PvxCX9nuGqessTNaMri0iG9Q= =xkBS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org