So, I've owned this new PC for just over a month, and already I'm
upgrading its hardware. That's normal behavior, right?

Although, strictly speaking, the above statement is not entirely true.
Only days after receiving this PC, I was already plugging in new
hardware: specifically, a second mechanical drive intended to house
all my 'old games', including the entirety of my DOS Games collection.
But I don't really count that as an 'upgrade' since a) I was merely
swapping the hard-drive out of the old PC and into the new one, and b)
it was a planned addition from before I had even purchased the new PC.
It was less an upgrade than part of the planned build that I - rather
than the boutique from whom I had purchased the machine - was going to
do the install.

This upgrade, though, wasn't intended from the start. Also, it's been
a month. So it's totally different, ya know?

Not that the upgrade is anything to boast about. I'm merely upgrading
that slow 2TB mechanical drive - the very one I installed just a month
ago - with an equally slow 4TB mechanical drive. It's not even that I
really needed the space; it's just that every time I opened File
Explorer the old drive showed up in red because it was 95% full, and
that made me antsy. Old habits insist I maintain at 50% free on my
drives; it's a daft compulsion, I know, but not really a troublesome
one. On the plus side, it's nice to have a drive that hasn't been
spinning for 1600+ days. ;-)

So, not an upgrade worth mentioning, other than the fact that I /am
upgrading/ so soon after getting the new PC. This is what happens when
I don't find old computers lying around in the trash; I start
tinkering on my work machine. I really hope I salvage something from
the curb soon; it makes me nervous when I fiddle around with my
primary...

Not directly related, but for those with a M.2 slot (or a PS5), this is a
great deal (I paid $200 for this same item last year). Just be sure to
update the firmware with samsung magician:

https://slickdeals.net/f/16736609-2tb-samsung-980-pro-ssd-with-heatsink-pcie-gen-4-nvme-m-2-internal-solid-state-drive-mz-v8p2t0cw-125-99-free-shipping

rms

On 6/24/2023 4:37 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>
> So, I've owned this new PC for just over a month, and already I'm
> upgrading its hardware. That's normal behavior, right?
>
No.

> Although, strictly speaking, the above statement is not entirely true.
> Only days after receiving this PC, I was already plugging in new
> hardware: specifically, a second mechanical drive intended to house
> all my 'old games', including the entirety of my DOS Games collection.
> But I don't really count that as an 'upgrade' since a) I was merely
> swapping the hard-drive out of the old PC and into the new one, and b)
> it was a planned addition from before I had even purchased the new PC.
> It was less an upgrade than part of the planned build that I - rather
> than the boutique from whom I had purchased the machine - was going to
> do the install.
>
> This upgrade, though, wasn't intended from the start. Also, it's been
> a month. So it's totally different, ya know?
>
Not really.

> Not that the upgrade is anything to boast about. I'm merely upgrading
> that slow 2TB mechanical drive - the very one I installed just a month
> ago - with an equally slow 4TB mechanical drive. It's not even that I
> really needed the space; it's just that every time I opened File
> Explorer the old drive showed up in red because it was 95% full, and
> that made me antsy. Old habits insist I maintain at 50% free on my
> drives; it's a daft compulsion, I know, but not really a troublesome
> one. On the plus side, it's nice to have a drive that hasn't been
> spinning for 1600+ days. ;-)
>
> So, not an upgrade worth mentioning, other than the fact that I /am
> upgrading/ so soon after getting the new PC. This is what happens when
> I don't find old computers lying around in the trash; I start
> tinkering on my work machine. I really hope I salvage something from
> the curb soon; it makes me nervous when I fiddle around with my
> primary...
>
Then don't do it. :P

--
I've done good in this world. Now I'm tired and just want to be a cranky
dirty old man.

On Sat, 24 Jun 2023 18:25:10 -0600, "rms"
<rsquiresMOO@MOOflashMOO.net> wrote:

>Not directly related, but for those with a M.2 slot (or a PS5), this is a
>great deal (I paid $200 for this same item last year). Just be sure to
>update the firmware with samsung magician:
>
>https://slickdeals.net/f/16736609-2tb-samsung-980-pro-ssd-with-heatsink-pcie-gen-4-nvme-m-2-internal-solid-state-drive-mz-v8p2t0cw-125-99-free-shipping

The Samsung 980 Pro's are nice drives; I've a couple of the same model
but with only 1TB each. Still, I wouldn't mind upgrading

(No! Bad! No more upgrades for a while!)

just because, well, hey, who doesn't want more disk-space? The
real-world performance of those drives is nice too; no complaints
there.

I'm still bugged out by the limited lifespan of solid-state drives,
though. I've spinning rust that's been online for 10+ years (and
probably will keep going for longer). I don't expect to see the same
longevity with SSDs, especially those used as primary drives (Windows
does a lot of background read/writes for various logs and memory
operations that eat NAND cell rewrite capability). And they suck for
long-term data archival. None of these issues are deal-killers, but
add a little added reluctance whenever it comes to buying new SSDs.

So maybe I won't upgrade.

Not yet, at least.