trying to choose ss hard drive for desktop
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Comments (13)hobby_libby- The average computer may typically use about as much energy as a 100 watt bulb...more if it's really high-powered, less if not, and you'll generally use less overall if you are talking about a laptap rather than a traditional computer with stand alone monitor. An LCD monitor fully on (or with a screensaver) might use about 50 watts. So if your computer and an LCD monitor are fully on 10 hours a day, you're talking about using 1.5 kWhr. The cost for a single kWhr is maybe 10-15 cents in many parts of the country, so your total energy cost to have a computer and monitor on for 10 hours a day might be about 20 cents. Now if you decide to have no screensaver AND have it go into sleepmode when you are not using it, you could save at least 15 cents a day, or maybe $50 a year...if you have air conditioning going year-round. However, during the heating months, the heat energy thrown off by the computer goes to heat your home and the furnace has to provide a little less heat, so you get little benefit there. And, of course if you actually have the computer in use, then your savings will be proportionally less. Bottomline: if you put your computer in sleep mode, with the screen off, and you don't use the computer much, you'll save enough each month to buy one extra latte at Starbucks. Don't get me wrong. Saving energy and money is a good thing, and I'm not trying to discourage you. I was just making the point that you are not going to see the massive savings you might have expected. If you want to understand where the electricity really gets eaten up in your home, and how to conserve so you can reduce your bill in a noticeable way, check out the link below. At the bottom of the linked page there is lots of good info on things you can do, and how much different things in your home account for in the overall energy picture. Here is a link that might be useful: Electric use...See MoreHow To Choose External Hard Drive for Backups
Comments (10)I have two external hard drives, both Western Digital. One has its own power source; the other is powered by USB. Both are 1 TB and I have never had a problem. Pooh Bear ==================== This was sent to me thru one of my Yahoo groups: As I have been going through my archived data discs I have been coming across several of them that have become bad over the years and thus I cannot get anything off of them. There are photos and videos that were on some of them that I cannot replace:-( So, I made an account at an online file storage site to save my precious files to the cloud to help save from disc deterioration. As I was looking around to see what my options were for storing my sensitive data I came across this site and found it interesting. The discs are pricey (about ~$3 a disc) but they are known as the '1000 year disc.' It takes a special burner to burn them. The DVD Burner is like $40 at Best Buy so you can probably find it even cheaper somewhere else if you shop around. Not sure if there are any retail sellers for the M-Discs though. I didn't dig too deep trying to find anything. Check out the site because it is interesting. They say it is like burning the data into a rock, lol! Anyway, I found this a while back and thought I would share it with you real quick while I had the time:-) M-DISC, Write Once and Read Forever. You might feel like you're making a "permanent" backup of your files when you copy them onto a DVD or backup to a computer hard-drive, but the truth is these devices suffer from natural decay and degradation. Current DVD technology uses organic dyes and low laser power to make marks on the data layer of a standard recordable DVD. Over time, these marks become unreadable because organic dyes degrade when exposed to minimal levels of light, heat, and humidity. This means all the data you thought was safely stored could be lost because the discs you used have an average lifespan of only about 3 to 5 years! Why would you risk your data based on an average; hundreds of discs taken into account in that average were corrupt and unreadable after only a few months. With Millenniata, we don't subject you to the possibility of losing your data. When we say "Write Once and Read Forever", we mean it. Here is a link that might be useful: http://millenniata.com/m-disc/...See MoreHow do I run programs from a hard drive in an encolsure
Comments (9)zep, You said "When you installed that program it created numerous registry entries, those are still on the old computer, and are needed to run Microsoft office. " But I thought that sort of thing would be on the old computer's drive. Or is it elsewhere? If elsewhere, then of course, it makes sense that I can't run Word. That said, I can open a Word doc but see a message to the effect that "not registered for use by this user." Word isn't installed on the new computer, not even as a trial, so I don't understand why a Word doc would even open....See MoreSeeking Hard Drive recommendations - of all sorts
Comments (2)I will tell you what I go with, for my internal drives I go with Western Digital Black Caviar drives they are more expensive usually but extremely good drives. The last one I got was a 500Gig Black Caviar which I believe I got through amazon. For my external drives I like seagate free agent pro, I like their warranty and features. western digital black caviar...See More
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6 years agoIf she already has her bookmarks, passwords, etc. straightened out it's probably too late but...
If you can locate her old Firefox profile on her Windows disk, you could probably copy her profile files to her new Firefox profile on her Linux disk.
When I mount my Windows installation from within Linux, I find mine here:
/media/chugger/Acer/Users/richard/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles
(chugger is my Linux username, Acer is the label of the Windows partition, richard is my Windows username)
If there's more than one profile directory, I would assume it to be the last created.
On the running Linux installation you can just go to "Help" -> "Troubleshooting information" and Firefox will point it out to you.
Alternately, you could just copy specific files from the old Windows Firefox profile to the new Linux Firefox profile.
Bookmarks and history are stored in places.sqlite.
Passwords requires two files: key4.db and logins.json
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profiles-where-firefox-stores-user-data
On my main computer, I put Linux on an M.2. nvme and moved Windows from a one terrabyte spin drive to an inexpensive 120 gig Kingston SSD. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01N6JQS8C (It was $19.99 when I bought it)Windows boots quickly on the SSD. Probably as fast as my Linux does on the faster M.2. nvme. 120 gig is more than enough for a boot drive as long as you use another drive for data.
If at some point in the future you get restless and want to play, and possibly impress your wife, you might stick a small SSD in her machine to use as a boot drive. And use the 500 gig spin drive for data.
I just got a new bedroom computer. I had trouble getting remote desktop working. After a couple frustrating days I got it working and quickly backed it up. And... it felt good. Probably better than it would have if it had come easy.
The bedroom computer, shown in the window looks almost exactly like the main computer but... that's just me. I like simple. :-)
marknmt thanked Richard (Vero Beach, Florida)- 6 years ago
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