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The days of 32K (that's "kay") being a ton of memory are long gone. Storage? You mean cassette tapes??? 
Marc
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That's really interesting...We all got to used for big machines with - theoretically - endless resources...A half a year back I got into a project, using Arduino as the 'brain'...My young companion for the project, never had the experience to see, how much can be put into 32K...He was shocked...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I could probably do with 32K if Visual Studio would fit on that 
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Still, I cannot understand why windows need 16Gb, or a printer driver 4Gb, ... I think memory is too cheap, and everybody goes the easy way of not caring about storage space anymore. Long see optimization... I had the secret hope that the requirement of "everything" being "downloadable from our website" would refrain from proposing gb downloads with 4 figures , but it does not seem to be the case. So I had to wait 45min for playing a game loaded on tape 25 years ago, now I have to wait 45min to download the 220Gb of the game I want to play. Where is the improvement? 
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Rage wrote: 220Gb
You sure? The unofficial record holder is only around 80GB fully installed with expansion packs.
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Wow, I have 2x1TB drives in my LAPTOP.
Thinking about leveraging the #3 (tiny one)
or upgrading the 1TB to 2TB.
Honestly, you can buy 1TB SSD for cheap on amazon <$300
I would upgrade your existing by cloning it, and swapping a 1TB in.
It cost you more to COMPLAIN about it 
Now, the 2TB are pricey at near $900.00 so I understand not going there.
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I'm not buying anything. This is a WORK laptop. If anyone is buying anything it's my boss!
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Sander,
Lookup the prices on Amazon.
Give them to your boss, ask for the upgrade.
If you have the skillset to do the upgrade, offer to do the upgrade on your own time, or after hours.
I would be surprised if they did not go for it.
I remember EONS ago, I brought in my own SECOND monitor to work. My boss sat down with me, and after 15 minutes, he asked how hard it was to do that for others, himself included! Within a week, even the receptionist (who had a softphone, and needed to email/fax from the pc) had dual monitors.
Don't be afraid to ask, but include the WHY. I am sure your boss does not want you feeling stressed or wasting your time WAITING for a response. Or shuffling around large files.
It's a relatively small price.
Now, if you work in a BIG company, you might be hosed. But I would still try.
It can't hurt!
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: I would be surprised if they did not go for it.
Be surprised 
We all swap large files around, even my manager.
Ah well, as I understood we're getting new laptops pretty soon anyway.
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We have 8TB of SSD's installed and feel a storage crunch every week or so when processing a chunk of 4K video, which does love storage... Whenever a crunch occurs we roll SSD storage to hard drive backup. It is, however, nice 1TB SSD's have finally dropped below $200.
I'm waiting for the 16TB SSD to arrive at a realistic price, but we'll probably be processing 8K video by then and still be out of space! 
bwa
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8TB SSD in every dev machine? 
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We have one desktop set up with 8TB of SSD's to do the initial heavy duty video processing.
We've replaced all the hard drives in our laptops and other desktops with 500GB or 1TB SSD's. I can see us upgrading the 500GB SSD's to 1TB SSD's in the not too distant future; probably by upgrading our video processing PC to 2-4TB SSD's and moving the 1TB SSD's to the laptops and other desktops.
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Video processing sounds expensive 
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Or large volumes of digital images. Our Sony A7R II generates 80MB RAW images. By the time you get done processing these through TIF/FIT/PSD format to final results you've probably used up 250MB per picture...
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So, insurance time is here again. Yipee!
Home: the renewal is 20% up on last year - had another quote for 30% less - slightly better cover!
Car: down $10 from last time. Having a look around and esurance want to charge me $674. Per month. WTE?!? Where do they get these numbers from? They bear no relation to the company I'm using (Geico who have been excellent) and several others who are getting closer. Will stick to Geico.
Sheesh: it's quite tiring to do this dance every year. 
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Have you made any claims recently?
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Have not had an insurance claim for many, many years. Last one was in the 20th century! 
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R. Giskard Reventlov wrote: esurance want to charge me $674. Per month.
Either you lied about your age and said you were 17, or that's one elephant of a car! 
I pay less than £200 (around $275) per year, fully comp, protected no claims, etc!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: around $275) per year
Ya, but our insurance agents can become wealthy people. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Insurance in the UK is far cheaper than here. It's probably because the drivers here are bloody awful.
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Hi All,
I know Nagy a few others (who are aircraft nuts) will know the name Eric 'Winkle' Brown. He held the world records for aircraft carrier landings (only recently broken!) as well as the number of different planes flown (not likely to be broken!). Never met him but was told by those who did 'he is truely a nice guy!' heres a link Vulcan To The Sky - Captain Eric "Winkle" Brown.[^] look him up on Wikipedia. 
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Point taken! Winkle has died
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Sad that he has died, but my goodness what an extraordinary life he lived.
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Well, I wish I had the chance to meet him in 2001 like a couple of my friends. Mind you 97 is not a bad innings for a test pilot!
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