Computer Repair

[gzz]

I had no idea Ryzen 5 had such better built in graphics as Intel chips.

Ultimately it’s not very important. ZK will probably barely notice his new PC is faster than his 4 year old one, and not notice at all the speed difference between these two PCs, unless he is doing some power user stuff like video edits.

I still use my 2011ish Gen 1 i7-890 desktop, and it really is barely any slower for most daily tasks than my shiny new Omen 25L.

The biggest difference for general office use is that the new PC does OCR of large scanned documents a ton faster than older PCs. Not sure how often people need to do giant OCR projects however.

[svelte]

[quote=Coronita]one thing about backup usb drive. i dont leave it connected. A RAID usb backup drive mitigates against hardware failure with your main storage, and the dual RAID drive mitigates against a single hard drive failure in the USB RAID drive….However, these backup drives wont do anything against a computer infested with a virus. So i only have the backup drive connected when im backing things up.[/quote]

I use similar strategy. None of my data is stored on the computer – only software I install which isn’t much nowadays.

All of my data is on external USB – I have a 12TB drive and two 12 TB backup drives plus a 12 TB backup sitting in a safe deposit box which I swap out every 4 months. I will lose a week’s worth of work if my 12 TB main USB drive fails. I don’t keep any drive past 5 years of age – all failures I have seen have been on drives 7-10 years of age. Backup drives are plugged in only while backing up data.

If my house burns down I’ll lose 4 months of data, but if my house burns down I’ve got bigger problems than data.

If my computer goes belly up, all I do is unplug my 12 TB drive from my old computer and plug it into my new computer. Install 2-3 sw packages and I’m good to go! Easy.

[Coronita]

[quote=gzz]I had no idea Ryzen 5 had such better built in graphics as Intel chips.

Ultimately it’s not very important. ZK will probably barely notice his new PC is faster than his 4 year old one, and not notice at all the speed difference between these two PCs, unless he is doing some power user stuff like video edits.

I still use my 2011ish Gen 1 i7-890 desktop, and it really is barely any slower for most daily tasks than my shiny new Omen 25L.

The biggest difference for general office use is that the new PC does OCR of large scanned documents a ton faster than older PCs. Not sure how often people need to do giant OCR projects however.[/quote]

If you plan on doing some photo editing, or use a drawing app like CorelDraw, it makes a difference too. Not sure if these cheaper boxes allow for a ram upgrade. A lot of times, to cut cost they started soldering the memory directly onto the motherboard.

I would say for the talented, you could build a much better system if you wanted to assemble it yourself, but that takes a lot of work.

[Coronita]

[quote=svelte][quote=Coronita]one thing about backup usb drive. i dont leave it connected. A RAID usb backup drive mitigates against hardware failure with your main storage, and the dual RAID drive mitigates against a single hard drive failure in the USB RAID drive….However, these backup drives wont do anything against a computer infested with a virus. So i only have the backup drive connected when im backing things up.[/quote]

I use similar strategy. None of my data is stored on the computer – only software I install which isn’t much nowadays.

All of my data is on external USB – I have a 12TB drive and two 12 TB backup drives plus a 12 TB backup sitting in a safe deposit box which I swap out every 4 months. I will lose a week’s worth of work if my 12 TB main USB drive fails. I don’t keep any drive past 5 years of age – all failures I have seen have been on drives 7-10 years of age. Backup drives are plugged in only while backing up data.

If my house burns down I’ll lose 4 months of data, but if my house burns down I’ve got bigger problems than data.

If my computer goes belly up, all I do is unplug my 12 TB drive from my old computer and plug it into my new computer. Install 2-3 sw packages and I’m good to go! Easy.[/quote]

When I use to work in an office, I leave a single drive backup that replicates the raid drive in my office… no office anymore…

[Coronita]

…(Mr. Rogers theme song playing…) It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day in the neighborhood… wont you be mine? …

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[barnaby33]

How about just using a cloud backup service. Why mess with a local drive at all?
Josh

[zk]

Cost, obviously. 1 tb of cloud storage is $20/month from what I’m seeing. A 2TB HDD is about $60.

If you’re aware have a cloud service that can provide a terabyte of storage for free or for significantly less than $20 a month, I’m all ears.

[svelte]

[quote=barnaby33]How about just using a cloud backup service. Why mess with a local drive at all?
Josh[/quote]

A few reasons. Privacy, reliability, and cost for me in that order.

There have been so many data breaches that I really don’t trust anyone’s ability to safeguard my information.

Reliability – I have seen backups fail way, way too many times. Either they are misconfigured so that they weren’t storing what I thought they were storing, or the mechanism or media failed, or on and on. I’d say as high as 25% of the time that data needed to be recovered, it was unrecoverable. I don’t trust anyone but me with my data redundancy. I never do incremental saves…I wipe the disk and make an entirely new copy of everything. Time consuming yes, but I’m 100% sure all of the files are there and the latest version.

Third, it does cost a bit. However, 12TB drives aren’t cheap either so its not a major driver in my decision.

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