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lizby
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Posted: 03:47pm 09 Mar 2025

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Bryan1 said looking at win 11 at the work computers does make one wonder is it even worth it.

In view of Win10's going out of support this fall, I recently for $300USD bought a used Dell Latitude 7480 laptop with Win11, i7, 32GB ram, 500GB SSD, 14" screen.

Installing programs and moving over all my data was easier than I had thought it would be. It has taken about a month of occasional tweaking to get it looking the way I like (which is like Win10 and without the nagging, advertising, and uneconomical use of space which Win11 bestows upon you by default).

I'm quite happy with the result.

New features that I like: Notepad supports multiple tabs; Print Screen allows you to clip the portion you want immediately, instead of having to paste into a paint program and doing the clipping there.

What I don't like: nothing really. I have no complaint about speed, storage, number of programs I can run simultaneously, or stability.

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dMajo

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Posted: 11:48pm 09 Mar 2025

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Mixtel90 said Far better to be selective in what you keep and just delete the rubbish you don't need than buy bigger and bigger drives. ;)

Spinning rust HDD is probably the most secure backup you can get. SSD is probably some of the worst.

The problem with spinning rust is that as capacity increases tolerances in all areas become tighter. At some point that means that reliability starts to fall. Personally I'd prefer a RAID array of three 3TB drives to a single 10TB drive for exactly this reason, even if there was no redundancy.

If you would have said JBOD the lost data would have been the broken disk data.

But saying RAID of 3 3TB disks, this compared to the single disk capacity of 10TB can only be RAID 0 (Stripping). So you only get tripled bandwidth since the data is split into 3 parts on the 3 disks, but at the same time having 3 components triples the chance of failure of one of them and consequently the chance of losing everything.

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Mixtel90

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Posted: 07:52am 10 Mar 2025

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The point I was trying to make is that 3TB drives are probably more reliable than 10TB capacity drives. Whether the failure rates work out I don't know, but I strongly suspect that that is the case as less data is being stored per sq mm of platter surface.

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