Evolv-ing Thread

[TrollDragon]

I don't get 8TB drives... That is a one serious pile of data to loose if the drive ever takes a dump.

Raid 1 with hot spare or better yet triple mirror, sure. But as a single drive, not for me.

 

[TrollDragon]

The big question is, why are you still using XP?

 

[awsum140]

I use Otterbox shells on our phones, Samsung and iPhone, and Turtleback belt holsters. After three years of daily use, just normal wear and tear to the outside of the holsters.

 

[BillW50]

I don't get 8TB drives... That is a one serious pile of data to loose if the drive ever takes a dump.

Raid 1 with hot spare or better yet triple mirror, sure. But as a single drive, not for me.

I have one 8TB for a place to have everything. But there are copies of it on smaller drives. Most of them XP can read.

The big question is, why are you still using XP?

Why not? Actually I have two XP machines running at the moment and both are online. One is doing a stream while the other one is here. Something goes wrong and a drive fails, RAM craps out, or whatever, I'm still good to go. Why do corporations say they can't access their system now since they are down? Why live like that? That has to cost them lots of lost revenue. Why not have another machine up and running that can take over in a moments notice? I don't get it.

Why XP? Newer Windows are bloated and are huge CPU hogs. That is because they are doing a million things in the background and probably reporting everything you do to Microsoft, NSA, China, and who knows who else. And that is why I ordered a game machine with an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8750H processor just to run Windows 10 at a decent pace.

 

[awsum140]

I use more than one large drive, 6TB and 8TB. The 8TB is for video storage from the surveillance system. It's a WD "purple" which is built to handle constant writes. The 6TB, a WD "blue" is used for backup of"critical" data and is in a separate machine that only runs when acting as the backup server, twice a week for about 12 hours. I'm not too worried about either of them crapping out. My long term plan is to split the video storage over two drives with half the cameras writing to one and the other half writing to the other one. I do have a number of other smaller drives, generally 500GB, in the desktop along with a 2TB USB drive hung off it as well.

I have to say I'm surprised at how smoothly the new drive and build went on this craptop. I had used the Media Creation tool before I "upgraded" the desktop from Win7 to Windoohs 10 and made a bootable install disk. After cleaning out the dust from the laptop and putting the new drive in, I don't think it was more than an hour to get Windoohs 10 up and running. I did "cheat" a little and plugged into the switch on my desk for a 1gig network connection. That made the updates and moving data back a heck of a lot faster even though I'm using a USB dongle WiFi adapter and normally get a 433mb connection with WiFi.

 

[TrollDragon]

I have one 8TB for a place to have everything. But there are copies of it on smaller drives. Most of them XP can read.

Why not? Actually I have two XP machines running at the moment and both are online. One is doing a stream while the other one is here. Something goes wrong and a drive fails, RAM craps out, or whatever, I'm still good to go. Why do corporations say they can't access their system now since they are down? Why live like that? That has to cost them lots of lost revenue. Why not have another machine up and running that can take over in a moments notice? I don't get it.

Why XP? Newer Windows are bloated and are huge CPU hogs. That is because they are doing a million things in the background and probably reporting everything you do to Microsoft, NSA, China, and who knows who else. And that is why I ordered a game machine with an 8th Gen Intel® Core™ i7-8750H processor just to run Windows 10 at a decent pace.

Copies of copies is good. My experience of large drives was always a customer with no backups needing to recover data from a drive that had a hard time reading sectors...

Data that gets quietly sent off to places unknown, always gets detected in network logs quite quickly by the tinfoil hat folks.

I run Windows 10 on a Q9550 with 8GB and a SSD quite nicely. Welcome to 2008!

CPU Mark 12479 (i7-8750H) vs 3964 (Q9550)

 

[BillW50]

I run Windows 10 on a Q9550 with 8GB and a SSD quite nicely. Welcome to 2008!

CPU Mark 12479 (i7-8750H) vs 3964 (Q9550)

Yeah but you're running 64 bit and 8GB. Try it on my fastest laptop with a Intel Core2 Duo T7400 @ 2.16GHz running Windows 8.1 x32 with 4GB of RAM (only 3GB usable) and it ain't so pretty. While XP flies on the same machine. Oh yeah, CPU Mark 1246 for the T7400. Funny my Windows tablets use a L7400 and Windows XP also flies on them. Windows 8 not so hot. CPU Mark 846 there.

Although they are not even as bad as my Dell ST (tablets) with their Atom Z670. I can't believe they installed Windows 7 Pro on those things. I am not even sure you can run XP well on it. And Windows 8 is even worse and it takes 15 minutes before the CPU gets off of 100% usage. CPU Mark 243 there. Nobody has any business running Windows 7 let alone Windows 8 on such a slow machine. And Dell should be raked through the coals for selling anybody one of these.

 

[tiburonfirst]

 

[dwcraig1]

 

[dwcraig1]

Some of the XvoSticks are done.

 

[mikepetro]

 

[dwcraig1]

For the 2nd time I found Skype running and signed in on my new laptop. I haven't used Skype in years. It is part of Windows 10. I took care of it, for good.

 

[awsum140]

The thing I'd like to dump completely is Cortana.

 

[BillW50]

 

[BillW50]

For the 2nd time I found Skype running and signed in on my new laptop. I haven't used Skype in years. It is part of Windows 10. I took care of it, for good.

The thing I'd like to dump completely is Cortana.

Gee... I don't even have Windows 10 yet and I am already hating it.

Give me back my Windows XP!

 

[BillW50]

OMG! BestBuy sells K-cups pods?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/save-keurig-kcups

 

[CMD-Ky]

I have a Surface Pro 3 with Win 10 that is pretty as all get out and is now totally worthless. With 10, System and System Interrupts had the processor running at no less than 50% constantly. It will overheat in twenty minutes. The cooling system can't keep up and to open it and clean it requires more skills than I have or really even want. After looking at multiple forums, I decided that this was a feature not a bug.

I bought a refurbished Dell with Win 7 and did a dual boot for Linux Mint, my go to OS now. There is a function that requires Windows - a Garmin update application. Evolv EScribe Linux Beta works just fine.

I would have stayed with DrDos, WordStar, Lotus 123 if I could have.

Gee... I don't even have Windows 10 yet and I am already hating it.

Give me back my Windows XP!

 

[CMD-Ky]

OMG! BestBuy sells K-cups pods?

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/promo/save-keurig-kcups

Just trying to keep up with Bezos.

 

[TrollDragon]

The thing I'd like to dump completely is Cortana.

You can shut it down in the registry on Windows 10 Home or through GroupPolicy in Pro.
https://www.howtogeek.com/265027/how-to-disable-cortana-in-windows-10/

 

[Mowgli]