Forma 30 books take up 1.5 G of space?

[Quoth]

Indeed the Windows 12 name was a joke. MS wants to sell Cloud. Local Office is now depreciated in favour of Office 365. A new version of Windows doesn't boost PC sales thus licences, so why should MS ever work on a new Windows now they do rolling updates and want to sell Cloud Services (1960s Mainframe Rental, but faster & prettier)?

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Scaledish

NERD ALERT!!!! USELESS INFO HERE!!! IDGAF MOMENT!!! ok, read the warnings, great. https://www.techradar.com/news/softw...ows-11-1293309 belive it or not, we are stuck on the shit 10 is today ... Linux here i come

Just because there won't be a Windows 11 is not a good reason to move to Linux. Windows 10 works rather well. Better then Linux.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Maybe on Windows 12? Actually on some systems the Win10 now "reserves" an extra 32 G for "system use" since an update.
Considering how many supermarket Win10 laptops and how many Win10 x86 tablets ONLY had 32G SSD or Flash from new ...

A few years ago I have purchased a notebook for my mother that came with Windows 8 and a 32GB EMMC "SSD" (*).
*Heavily* discounted. You switched it on and it promptly tried to commit suicide by attempting to download update to Win 10.

I have installed (an older version of) Mint Linux xfce on it and it works very nicely.
it is used as viewer for home videos taken by a mobile phone, viewer for photos and a very light Internet browsing machine.

(*) EMMC is not a true SSD, it is more closely related to an SD card.
What is worse, there is space for a "proper" SSD in the notebook casing, but the SATA connector on the motherboard is not soldered on and I suspect that there are some other electronic components missing, so it is not like you solder on one connector and connect the drive.

[Quoth]

Many consumer tablet and laptop SSD use the same chip technology as used internally in USB sticks and SD cards. Even some SATA SSD are the same technology of Flash.

Unless you are paying very serious money a 500 Gbyte 5400 RPM WD "Black" drive is longer life and faster sequential write and read. The cheap SSD only "win" on small random reads and almost all SSD / Flash can die completely without warning. Often SMART gives advance warning on HDD, and even then much can be recovered. A 1T HDD is next best option. Avoid HAMR and Shingled drives.

[ilovejedd]

Originally Posted by Quoth

Many consumer tablet and laptop SSD use the same chip technology as used internally in USB sticks and SD cards. Even some SATA SSD are the same technology of Flash.

Unless you are paying very serious money a 500 Gbyte 5400 RPM WD "Black" drive is longer life and faster sequential write and read. The cheap SSD only "win" on small random reads and almost all SSD / Flash can die completely without warning. Often SMART gives advance warning on HDD, and even then much can be recovered. A 1T HDD is next best option. Avoid HAMR and Shingled drives.

Dunno what you mean by serious money but you can get decent 500GB SSDs for $60-80 (Crucial MX500, Samsung 860 EVO, WD Blue 3D).

My old Intel X25-M G2s are still chugging along. They're a lot slower compared to new SSDs but they work (although I've just been use them as external drives for a while now after upgrading to larger capacity SSDs on the PCs). I've had more motherboard and HDD failures than SSDs. *knock on wood* On my laptops, the HDDs almost always failed 2-3 months after warranty expired.

[Scaledish]

Originally Posted by DNSB

Sheesh... That article is from 2015. That ain't news, it's olds.

never said it was