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Post by devastitis on Feb 6, 2016 13:09:18 GMT -6
For those who are a little more adept with computers, My dad just bought a Dell XPS computer from Costco. It came with a very slow 1TB drive. I just found an unopened 240GB SSD Crucial hard drive, that I believe I bought two or three years ago. Would this be safe to use or should I scrap it and buy a new one? I was going to migrate Windows 10 from the 1TB to the SSD.
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Post by stinky on Feb 8, 2016 20:23:35 GMT -6
if the drive connectors are the same you should be able to swap them out with no problem, and you shouldn't be concerned about the age at this point.
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Post by Old26 on Feb 8, 2016 20:33:48 GMT -6
1/4 the space and about 500% the speed. Depends on his needs...
I will never use a computer with an HDD again, sans my Linux server with a RAID card and 4x10,000 rpm enterprise drives.
SSD all the way.
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Post by devastitis on Feb 8, 2016 21:03:44 GMT -6
There's no expiration date for SSDs? It's a Crucial 240gb that I'm pretty sure I bought in 2013.
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Post by Old26 on Feb 8, 2016 21:04:24 GMT -6
There's no expiration date for SSDs? It's a Crucial 240gb that I'm pretty sure I bought in 2013. Use it. Unless you stored it in your fridge... |
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Post by exophobe on Feb 8, 2016 21:05:00 GMT -6
There's no expiration date for SSDs? It's a Crucial 240gb that I'm pretty sure I bought in 2013. as long as it hasn't had Windows beating the crap out of it with continual swapping for the last two years it should be fine. |
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Post by northcoast on Feb 8, 2016 21:58:51 GMT -6
1/4 the space and about 500% the speed. Depends on his needs... I will never use a computer with an HDD again, sans my Linux server with a RAID card and 4x10,000 rpm enterprise drives. SSD all the way. This. Especially for laptops. |
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Post by drewcandraw on Feb 9, 2016 20:00:19 GMT -6
Run windows 10 on ssd and use the other HD as storage. Fast boot times and large storage. Should have enough space in the tower.
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Post by drewcandraw on Feb 9, 2016 20:00:43 GMT -6
Run windows 10 on ssd and use the other HD as storage. Fast boot times and large storage. Should have enough space in the tower.
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Post by devastitis on Feb 9, 2016 20:15:55 GMT -6
If Windows 10 is preinstalled on the 1TB hard drive, can I easily migrate it over to the SSD?
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Post by variable on Feb 9, 2016 21:01:45 GMT -6
If Windows 10 is preinstalled on the 1TB hard drive, can I easily migrate it over to the SSD? Yes. I use the "Apricorn SATA Wire Notebook Hard Drive Upgrade Kit with USB 3.0 Connection ASW-USB3-25" to migrate from a spindle to an SSD. Nice little unit I bought off of Amazon. I've changed disk sizes with no problem (both smaller to larger and vice versa). |
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Post by Griffin on Feb 10, 2016 13:05:21 GMT -6
Windows has always had an easy way to migrate to a new installation, it is is "for dummies" and its called "windows easy transfer". Just hit the winkey and start typing it and it should come up.
Basically you say "this is where im going from" and then you can choose what to transfer like desktop, links, docs, pics etc. Preferably do this onto another external drive.
Then just put in the ssd and install windows, and then hit winkey and start the easy transfer and choose "this is the comp im transfering to".
Having the 1 TB as a d: drive is good, and after your sure you got everything he needs over to the c-drive, just delete all files and folders on d: thats got windows stuff and keep the ones you need like if you made any root folders such as "pics". There will be a little time consuming tho if he put stuf at random places but if he only used the desktop for docs/pics and win-program for mail then you should check that you got everything and just wipe the d-drive.
If he by any chance had any games installed you can enter the folders and save the savegames....same goes for any apps like photoshop or CAD with downloaded plugins - all these have to be saved manually and the apps and the games will have to be reinstalled to work properly and then you can copy the savegames and the plugins or whatever into the newly installed location.
I would suggest making folders for him on the newly wiped d-drive for the stuff he uses that takes the most space, like music/pics/whatever and then just make shortcuts on the desktop, then he will feel he is saving it like normal on the desktop but in reality it goes to d: as to not make the SSD run out of space. It all depends on his use of the computer tho, if he is just surfing then you can probably just put the 1TB in storage, or get an external case for it and use as a backup-disk.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 31, 2016 13:20:13 GMT -6
So should I go for the Thinkpad X1 Yoga with the high resolution screen or will there be a better alternative coming out this year?
Im only getting Lenovos so nothing else competes....I have the x230 today and while its ok I feel its heavy with the big battery and still really small screen so this is why Im thinking x1 yoga since its as light as the carbon but has some ok features like the pen and presentation mode......and while its bigger like..a bigger area, it is lighter but still have a 14" screen so i feel its gonn abe better mobilitywise...
if not the x1 yoga then I have to look at one of the T-models.
(yeah hello the P is awesome but its a little overkill and like 4 times the money)
thoughts?
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Post by MiddleAge on Mar 31, 2016 13:33:08 GMT -6
So should I go for the Thinkpad X1 Yoga with the high resolution screen or will there be a better alternative coming out this year? Im only getting Lenovos so nothing else competes....I have the x230 today and while its ok I feel its heavy with the big battery and still really small screen so this is why Im thinking x1 yoga since its as light as the carbon but has some ok features like the pen and presentation mode......and while its bigger like..a bigger area, it is lighter but still have a 14" screen so i feel its gonn abe better mobilitywise... if not the x1 yoga then I have to look at one of the T-models. (yeah hello the P is awesome but its a little overkill and like 4 times the money) thoughts? Have you looked at the Dell XPS series? The XPS 13 or 15 are pretty good and the are pretty comparable to x1 carbon or yoga. |
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Post by bentin on Mar 31, 2016 13:39:44 GMT -6
I have a Lenova T440s, it's a good little thing. Most of my coworkers have Dells and I am not impressed.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 31, 2016 13:51:24 GMT -6
We have a political agreement with HP so I can actually choose HP or Lenovo (or Mac) and this makes us not have a contract with Dell wich sucks bc they also have the Alienware line that could be nice at home.....but im not gonna get anything else then a Lenovo since they do exactly what I need (good keyboard and can take a beating like nothing else).
Bentin: I can choose the T460s or the T560. The 560 is way too heavy for what I need...the 460s looks about the same as the x1 yoga so I dunno what Im getting that is better here....is it a better screen do you know about that? I havent seen any of them irl..
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Post by bentin on Mar 31, 2016 13:56:31 GMT -6
If it were my money, I'd have a Mac with a Windows partition, but this Lenovo has been good and stable, is solid state and boots quickly. Screen is nothing special, but I use an external 27" and the laptop screen is mostly devoted to Outlook.
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Post by Griffin on Mar 31, 2016 14:06:09 GMT -6
Ok Ill think about it.
Workplace covers 98% of the cost but im stuck with it for a good while. I have 2 other 24" screens at the office so its when Im at home or working on the run that will be the only time I actually use the screen, however I know that this little x230 is way too small...excel-pages is like a bitch to work with so I need atleast 1920x1080 and thats covered by any of these contestants.
Im not gonna go Mac simply bc everyone I know that has a Mac doesnt know shit about technical stuff (apart from Old one here) and it has left me with a bad taste like im joinging a cominuty that I dont like...i know its imature of me but still I dont wanna be thought of as something Im not, and also I like to all of a sudden download and install some obscure program or emulator and these are often not made for Mac.....I know I can run parallels but so like...wtf is the pro of a Mac then? Its easier? Im nor having any problems here so thats not a case for me.....its nicer looking and better and aluminum and all that...well no...the inside is still a PC, I actually liked w\macs when they were power-pc based and had a 17" one that wa really cool when it came out, but now they are just slightly worse specced and more expensive then a pc....I also dont like the idea of using its own gamma setting of 1,8 or whatever, nad all in all I see no pros whatsoever other then that its nice with the aluminum look, but thats about it.
Osx can be installed on any PC if someone wants that.
*installs DOS-6, Solaris, Gentoo and os2*
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Post by exophobe on Mar 31, 2016 18:17:07 GMT -6
Ok Ill think about it. Workplace covers 98% of the cost but im stuck with it for a good while. I have 2 other 24" screens at the office so its when Im at home or working on the run that will be the only time I actually use the screen, however I know that this little x230 is way too small...excel-pages is like a bitch to work with so I need atleast 1920x1080 and thats covered by any of these contestants. Im not gonna go Mac simply bc everyone I know that has a Mac doesnt know shit about technical stuff (apart from Old one here) and it has left me with a bad taste like im joinging a cominuty that I dont like...i know its imature of me but still I dont wanna be thought of as something Im not, and also I like to all of a sudden download and install some obscure program or emulator and these are often not made for Mac.....I know I can run parallels but so like...wtf is the pro of a Mac then? Its easier? Im nor having any problems here so thats not a case for me.....its nicer looking and better and aluminum and all that...well no...the inside is still a PC, I actually liked w\macs when they were power-pc based and had a 17" one that wa really cool when it came out, but now they are just slightly worse specced and more expensive then a pc....I also dont like the idea of using its own gamma setting of 1,8 or whatever, nad all in all I see no pros whatsoever other then that its nice with the aluminum look, but thats about it. Osx can be installed on any PC if someone wants that.*installs DOS-6, Solaris, Gentoo and os2* Heh... It's probably come a long way since I tried, but saying this implies you haven't tried it. The thing about the Apple is that they don't seem to have a 2-3 year timer in them that makes it resemble a mission brief on Mission: Impossible. But anyway, this is a guy who's been running both windows and mac since there has been windows and mac. My work Lenovo is great, my home Macbook pro is great, do whichever makes you happy. Similarly spec'd, neither is a bad machine by any stretch, and I'm not convinced that Microsoft has stopped beating the shit out of disks (as I look at the blinking disk access LED on my desktop machine), which lends itself to potential longevity issues with the SSD on the Windows machine, but I doubt that's enough to sway you. I imagine you're the sort that's replacing every 2-3 years anyway, so you're unlikely to see it develop into a problem. |
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Post by Griffin on Apr 1, 2016 0:45:47 GMT -6
So your saying that one pro for Mac that you can think of is that it doesnt get as cluttered (sirupy) as a Windows machine over time?
Running osx on a pc isnt useful I understand that, but if there were as many pros with the os then this would be as common as having windows aswell on the mac.
#hackintosh
#virtualbox
#vmware-something
Why I mentioned it is because many Apple-boys think their hardware is magical and special, and im just saying it is not, its common and often old and boring. The screens and touchpads are good, I wil agree to thias, but the rest is not something I desire. This is both Apple laptops and phones imho.
However, I do love the big imacs wich are actually very good priced for what you get, and the ipod is/were phenomenal apart from the sound-quality but that could be fixed by using a line-out to aux converter. I have had many many ipods and still use one in the car.
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Post by exophobe on Apr 1, 2016 6:06:07 GMT -6
So your saying that one pro for Mac that you can think of is that it doesnt get as cluttered (sirupy) as a Windows machine over time? Running osx on a pc isnt useful I understand that, but if there were as many pros with the os then this would be as common as having windows aswell on the mac. #hackintosh #virtualbox #vmware-something Why I mentioned it is because many Apple-boys think their hardware is magical and special, and im just saying it is not, its common and often old and boring. The screens and touchpads are good, I wil agree to thias, but the rest is not something I desire. This is both Apple laptops and phones imho. However, I do love the big imacs wich are actually very good priced for what you get, and the ipod is/were phenomenal apart from the sound-quality but that could be fixed by using a line-out to aux converter. I have had many many ipods and still use one in the car. What I'm saying is get whatever you want, it's no reason to drag the other one down. The time aspect I'm referring to is that every Windows laptop I've had starts failing around the 2-3 year mark, and that Windows beats the crap out of hard drives, which becomes an issue with a device with a finite number of read/writes. |
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Post by Griffin on Apr 1, 2016 7:37:42 GMT -6
I agree that the installation does "fail" maybe even after only 1 year depending on what you do with it, and otherwise yeah the computer itself is outdated about after 3 years.
I dont mean to drag anyone down and its a little fun to poke, but seriously I cant find enough things that makes it worth getting something that has less support of programs....wich is like the reason Im using it. So I just feel people choose it because it looks good or they think its magic and thats ok I just disagree. There are alot of things people get that are worse for more money, like the Tesla car wich is extremely popular here and I dont get it since it has so many negative sides (reach/cost/its huge). I usually buy stuff in a combination of usefulness/how nice it is.....but for a thing thats meants to be used (car/phone/pc) the usefulness really comes first and then there is also the fact of knowing what you pay for, like most here wouldnt pay 2k for a levis pant bc we know its some standard mill with just silver pops on it...(for example).
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Post by stinky on Apr 1, 2016 8:31:26 GMT -6
If it were my money, I'd have a Mac with a Windows partition, but this Lenovo has been good and stable, is solid state and boots quickly. Screen is nothing special, but I use an external 27" and the laptop screen is mostly devoted to Outlook. I'm with you on this. I picked up an XPS 13 i7 back in October, and while I love the form factor (basically a 13" laptop in an 11" frame), trackpad issues are still abundant on non-mac machine. Add to that the fact that microsoft has still not found a reliable way to make non-metro programs play nicely with a 4K display (try reading the menu items in any non-current Adobe product) without manually adding config files. Worst of all, try using RDC on a 4K machine in full screen mode--i dare you. The XPS replaced a late 2008 13" aluminum macbook (that's right, the very first aluminum MB) that i had maxed out the specs over the years, and had served me very well, including an extremely precise, intuitive trackpad that doesn't change the feel based on what program you are using. At the next opportunity, I'm virtualizing my XPS and going back to a MacBook running VM Fusion. I'm no Apple fanboy, I just think they've nailed the keyboard/trackpad feel, which IMO is the most important part of feeling like the machine is an extension of the user. |
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Post by bentin on Apr 1, 2016 8:43:51 GMT -6
Funny, my dad is still using my old aluminum G1 17" MB.
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Post by Griffin on Apr 1, 2016 10:01:51 GMT -6
the trackpad is a serious point tho....Ive never had any problem with them on my lenovos but I also mostly use the clit, but I have this really expensive ROG gaming laptop where the trackpad is a joke and doesnt work, however I never use that on that machine, but I will be sure to test out the pad on both the 460s and the yoga before deciding.
Its leaning a little towards the Yoga bc of the active pen and the folding since I draw some, my daughter draws alot and I use the x230 in the sofa for looking at stuff when gaming sometimes and I dont have a pad.....so i gotta think a little about this. Ill see if I can have a good look at the screens aswell since the yoga looks like it could potentially have that dreaded milk-coating whereas the 460s does not.
We also have to pay a little for the MB pros atleast, not much but like $10 each month...
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