"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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On 6/27/13 5:13 PM, Eisboch wrote:


"F.O.A.D." wrote in message
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The new laptop has all solid state storage, an SSD. No spinning
drive.
That'll be something new for me in an actual laptop or desktop
computer
but of course precisely what is in a smart phone and most tablets.

Supposedly faster than a hard drive, easier on the battery, et
cetera.
But not upgradeable, the way a hard drive is.

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What kind of storage capacity do they offer? I think getting away
from
spinning hard drives is a great idea.



The current laptops now offer storage SSDs from 128 GBs to 768 GBs,
and
you get get hybrid drives on the desktops that combine spinning drives
and SSDs.

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Wow. That's more than enough for me. I don't permanently store a
lot of stuff on my computer hard drives. I have a couple of external
drives that I use to store stuff I want to keep but only hook them up
and run them when I need them.

I just checked this computer that I've had for about 3 years. Hard
drive capacity is 450Gb of which 362Gb are free. I'll never come
close to filling it up.