new computer goes nyoom

[unicornduke]

I'm very happy with it in the two hours I've had it so far. Nice keyboard (with numberpad!) the mouse isn't terrible and it is very fast. The power brick is a monster though, 240W and it's enormous. Got a lot of things installed and turned off All The "Helpful" Settings. I'm sure I'll run into something irritating soon. I still need to transfer all the misc stuff that is in my documents and things, minecraft mods, some other small stuff. The most important stuff lives on dropbox so that's already downloaded to it's folders.

Comments

[graydon]

Yay, zippy new machine!

May the transfer process entirely lack irritation. (somehow. :)

[unicornduke]

It hasn't been bad to be honest! New fast computers are fun

[which_chick]

New computer is always about two months of settling in for me. Nothing is the way I like it, way too much stuff runs by default, everything is just... wrong. I do get better after some time with it, though, and "new computer" is way better than "no computer".

I have the olds though and don't... trust clouds. I keep my important data on multiple removable hard drives. Additionally, I've noticed that I have a lot less attachment to media of all kinds, so I need less space for that stuff. (I'll just download it again -- in a world of plenty there doesn't seem to be a lot of point to hoarding, y'know? But also I understand why this causes problems for archivists these days.)

[unicornduke]

I figured out the webcam is kinda crap but oh well. New computer is much better than old computer which is not working well at all.

Yeah, I keep copies of stuff places, nothing is only on the cloud because that's just asking for trouble. Plus if the internet goes out, you're out of luck. I keep my photos in two places (should be three but that's a lot of work and money), dropbox for cloud and I picked up a 1TB solid state external drive which is my not cloud storage. My photos are the only media I keep, nothing else is super important really.

[graydon]

The easy way to replicate backups -- well, an easy way, for some values of easy -- is a HDD dock, a couple of 3.5 inch hard drives of some suitable size, and a Pelican 1060 case per hard drive. (3.5 because that's cheaper per TB and this is not usually an application where compactness matters.)

Once a month or so, plug in the dock, do a mass copy (I use rsync; there's a windows thing called RoboCopy, etc. so you're only copying change) to each hard drive, put them back in the case and put that away somewhere. Makes it easy to keep the backup where the computer isn't and generally simplifies the "somewhere else" part of being a backup.