Re: Another Amazon deal of the day: Kingston A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive - $33

I'll take a look.

My biggest problem with versions of Linux that I have tried to-date was first of all difficulties with drivers and then once the thing was up and running trying to update to a new release was almost a "start over again" situation. I was after 6 months of that that I had had enough, switched to Mac and have never looked back!.


Jon Paris

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On Jan 6, 2019, at 6:21 PM, Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Consider Linux Mint. It let me keep an old laptop out of the junkyard. No SSD (yet?).


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Subject: Re: [PCTECH] Another Amazon deal of the day: Kingston A400 SSD 240GB SATA 3 2.5” Solid State Drive - $33

All I have an old P4 PC that can't even move to Win 7 - I suspect that that is not worth the effort of moving to SSD!

Although if i decide to bite the bullet and load Linux on it the maybe ...


Jon Paris

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On Jan 6, 2019, at 1:40 PM, David Gibbs via PcTech <pctech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/5/19 9:57 AM, aec wrote:

It boots up almost as quick as you hit power. Never saw RDi come up so fast!
Ever..

I'm going to my dads house in a few hours to migrate his hard drive to an SSD.

As cheap as SSD's are these days there's just no reason not to.

david


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