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    From Dave Drum@1:18/200 to August Abolins on Sun Sep 15 05:40:00 2019
    August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    In a post between "Sean Dennis : August Abolins", on 9/13/2019 4:40 AM

    ..Also, rememember that flash memory of any type has a
    finite number of R/W cycles. Using any type of flash memory for
    long-term storage is a bad idea. I'd put it on something more permanent such as CD/DVD though all media types are subject to failures of
    different type.

    So.. I guess you would not be a fan of replacing spinning HDDs with
    SSDs?

    I was contemplating of having my next pc upgrade to have a
    main 1TB SSD. Now, I am not sure what to think. :(

    You just has to pay your money and makes your choices. Keeping in mind
    that even if it's chiselled in stone it's going to be subject to some
    erosion or other degradation to become eventually a puzzlement to some
    intrepid archaeologist.

    Pick a method you can live with/afford but be sanguine about your hopes
    for permanence.
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  • From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to August Abolins on Sat Sep 14 23:34:04 2019
    August Abolins wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

    I was contemplating of having my next pc upgrade to have a
    main 1TB SSD. Now, I am not sure what to think. :(

    It depends on the quality of the SSD and your usage. A SSD is a very
    different creature than a SD card. Huge difference. A SSD is designed for heavy R/W usage; a SD card not so much. I think you'd be fine with a
    quality brand-name SSD. I'm replacing the 500GB drive in this laptop with a 500GB SSD; no moving parts.

    Later,
    Sean

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  • From August Abolins@2:221/360 to Sean Dennis on Wed Dec 25 22:10:49 2019
    In a post between "Sean Dennis : August Abolins", on 9/14/2019 4:34 PM

    .. A SSD is designed for heavy R/W usage; a SD card
    not so much. I think you'd be fine with a quality brand-name
    SSD. I'm replacing the 500GB drive in this laptop with a
    500GB SSD; no moving parts.

    Hello Sean!

    How's the 500GB SSD replacement going?

    I've just ordered a refurbished T540p (W7pro, and lower-cost i5 generation processor) with a 1TB SDD. I tend to need a numeric keypad a lot so the one built in will be quite nice.

    My T60 Thinkpad (XP) was creeping out of space on C: with only 2.5GB free. :(
    I deleted old files in $NTinstall and $PatchCache$ and gained about 3GB.

    Then, the idea is to transfer the programs from the T60 to the T540p with Laplink.

    Then, the next step might be to replace the modest 230gb HDD in the T60 with at
    least a 500gb SSD, (hoping that the SSD will help extend the battery usage that
    I sometimes need) and then replace the XP on it with Linux Mint which performed
    beautifully in live-cd mode.

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