Hi Looking to upgrade my laptop for uni. Looking a the Yoga 710 that has a SDD. My current ASUS laptop has a HDD.
All I am reading says SDD is the way to go for speed etc but what I am interested in from other OZBs…
How did you handle the change in being able to just save everything to the laptop.
What tips do you suggest and what issues did you have getting us to it?
Thanks
Am worried that I save a new version of my documents every day that I work on…just worried that the SDD is small.
I am guessing that people use external HDD to save their stuff. Just wondering how hard it is to change in the way people use laptops with HDDs to SDDs.
Bigger ssd, upgrade yourself or buy a laptop with a bigger one.
Copy files off if it gets full
You should really specify this in your question because you are asking something completely different
thanks for your reply. Sorry didnt know how to word it.
If you value your uni work then you will have OneDrive or Google Drive hooked up to your My Documents folder anyway, so all your data is safely backed up in the cloud.
Surely a 500GB SSD is ample for uni work??
Data safe when you back it up to the cloud? Hmm…
@shaybisc: "Your privacy, guaranteed".
I am sure that anyone would also say: we guarantee your privacy. Yet… just one example:
…"A Russian digital forensics company ElcomSoft has shown evidence that Apple is storing records of users' browser history in iCloud storage system even after it has been deleted. The records include site names, URLs, and when a given site was visited, going back more than a year or possibly forever".
http://www.techspot.com/news/68104-apple-storing-years-delet…
they are the same thing…
they store your data.
think I am overthinking the actual logistics of having lots of external HDD rather than just having the internal HDD.
Keeping files on external HDD. Software only install on SSD. Need to move around use USB.
I don't understand the question. I think you are asking about the reliability of your data on an SSD versus a non SSD? If so backup your work to the cloud or email it to yourself each day.
The switch is a steep learning curve but after a few years of practice, if you have the willpower, you'll get used to it
pretty simple buy a big enough ssd which could get expensive if you need 1TB or over.
or buy a 250gb or 500gb for Operating system and programs and have an portable hard drive for those TB's a data storage needs.
For long term uni work, eg thesis/research - use an external backup drive as well as several online cloud backup services!!
For undergraduate work, you can archive your work on an external backup drive each semester.
With a 250GB+ drive you won't have any problems storing your uni work on it.
I guess it depends what kind of data you're storing, but documents (Office files, PDFs etc) take up very little space.
Honestly, I've never had any trouble with SSD storage space expect on my gaming laptop, where a single game can take 50GB.
Possible ways to deal with this include:
a) Using cloud storage to store older backups
b) Scheduled backups to a network drive or external hard drive
c) Leave a slimline USB drive or a microSD card plugged in for extra space.
My uni work is always synced and back up to Dropbox. It also has version control, file sharing and some rather primitive collaboration tools (this might have changed over the years, but back then in 2014 it was pretty crappy). I also use Google Docs, however it doesn't seem to always respect formatting done in Office 2016.
Nowadays Win10 comes with OneDrive, so you should already have an account and it also links directly to Office 365 or Office 2016.
For anything 'large' that you want to store, consider getting a portable HDD or an external Samsung SSD if you want extra speed.
If you don't care about speed, just buy a 128GB MicroSD card and leave it permanently plugged into your device. my shitty Pendo pad has 32GB of storage so the bulk of my stuff goes into the MicroSD expansion.
Sorry I don't understand the question - how is this any different on an SSD vs HDD for uni work?