[nfbcs] nfbcs Digest, any experience with JAWES and open office

[Steve Jacobson]

While we may need to agree to disagree, sometimes there is more than one answer to a question.  My memory was that Graham basically wanted to know 
how much disk space to get on a new laptop.  I would be surprised if you would advocate that every computer that you buy have 7TB of space, especially 
to be carried in a laptop.  I cannot imagine having a need for 2TB of space for my dropbox files, but I have no doubt that you must have a use for it or you 
wouldn't have it.  You mentioned a 4TB drive plugged into a router.  I am assuming that is acting as a backup for all computers connected to your network 
so is really a system wide shared drive.  That really is different than a drive dedicated to a single computer.  I have some music on my hard disk and a good 
number of recordings and am only up to 290GB after four or five years.  I do not have many pictures, though, nor do I edit video.  Clearly that would take a 
lot more space.
  
To me, indicating that one has to get 4TB or 7TB of disk space for a single computer seems like overkill, unless one knows they are going to have some 
very storage intensive uses.  On the other hand, if one is thinking about system wide storage and backups, the answer will be very different and much 
higher.  Having said that, it makes complete sense to me to consider that one may have a need or use for space during the life of a computer that they don't 
anticipate when they purchase one.  Building in some room for expansion or even for error in terms of what one thought they would need makes sense to 
me.  

Best regards,

Steve

On Sun, 31 May 2015 12:15:02 -0600, Rick Reed via nfbcs wrote:

>All,
>While I think we'll just have to agree to disagree here, I strongly 
>disagree with Nicole's assessment of the current state of storage in the 
>PC industry.
>She writes:
>"

>No offense, but why the devil would anyone need four tb of memory? The only
>hard drive that I have that is even one tb is an external hard drive that I
>use for back up only because I have more than one computer. I do not know
>many people who have that much stuff, even including media. And, if you do
>have that much media, keep it on an external hard drive, for Pete sake, for
>multiple reasons, including losing it if something happens to your computer
>and being able to plug it into other devices.

>Nicole"

>My main desktop PC is currently running a 120GB SSD for OS/Programs, 2 256GB SSDs in RAID0 for heavily accessed files, a 2TB SATA HDD for 
Dropbox/media storage, and a 3TB USB 3.0 HDD plugged into my router for shared network storage/backup purposes.
>I also keep 2 1TB portable drives handy for other important files/backups.

>It's an ever evolving world in the PC industry and I applaud Graham's forward thinking strategy in planning his rig.

>Graham, please feel free to contact me with any questions you may come up with.

>"Remember: No OEM can beat a PC you built yourself!"
>  

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