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Lower your standards -- I've been using that for years. ;-) When SSDs big enough for amateur photographers are affordable, I'll consider the switch.
by username223 13y ago
Lower your standards -- I've been using that for years. ;-)
When SSDs big enough for amateur photographers are affordable, I'll consider the switch.
- eropple 13y agoThe new MacBook Pros all have USB3, as well as Thunderbolt, for external drives. Or get a NAS; I have 2TB in RAID1 and it cost me under $300.
- johncagula 13y agocare to elaborate how you pulled off 2TB/RAID1 for under $300? I'm undertaking a similar project soon and am looking for advice
- eropple 13y agoI got a couple of 2TB WD Greens for $85 apiece and a ZyXEL NSA221 two-bay NAS (some ARM chip running what I think is Debian but I've never bothered to look) for $120. I think that one's discontinued now, though.
- johncagula 13y agoThanks for the response; what is your take on replace the ZyXEL with a RaspPi?
- eropple 13y agoNo idea. I assume it'd work, but how will you connect the drives?
- dzhiurgis 13y agoI didn't mean change the machine, just install more memory. 16GB is roughly $100.
- dingaling 13y ago> 16GB is roughly $100. Depends on the vintage of your laptop. Cheapest I can find on Crucial US at present is $164 for 16 GB DDR3. For 2008 laptops, DDR2 is coming in at $220 for 8GB.
- masklinn 13y agoYou need to define what you mean by "big enough" and "affordable", considering there are now 1TB SSD for ~$500, which I personally consider both "big enough" and "affordable enough"
- username223 13y agoThat's plenty big enough, but kind of pricey compared to $65 for a 1TB hard drive. Try to get either of those capacities in a laptop (I take pictures when I travel), and the gap gets even bigger.