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14. 0. Hard drive advice for a dummy?

Sun May 26, 2019, 07:20 PM

May 2019

You do need some kind of external drive though to (temporarily) hold the contents of the backup of your current system (so it can be transferred to a new drive), however backups can be compressed and thus the drive used for this purpose won't necessarily need as much capacity as your current local drive, potentially MUCH less. Depends on the nature of the files you're backing up and whether they're inherently compressed such as JPG and MP3, which won't shrink any more when backing up.

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Hard drive advice for a dummy? [View all] Grasswire2 Apr 2019 OP

How big (or small?) is the local hard drive? mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #1

4.00 GB installed RAM Grasswire2 Apr 2019 #2

Your laptop only comes with 32gb of "hard disc" space ZZenith Apr 2019 #3

WAAAAH? A 32GB HD? I find that hard to believe ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #6

From Laptop magazine's review of the thing ZZenith Apr 2019 #7

Gahhh ... this is bad news for our friend Grasswire ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #8

That would be my humble advice to Grasswire2 ZZenith Apr 2019 #9

Ah ... so you're maybe actually talking about the Memory (aka RAM), not the storage space here ... mr_lebowski Apr 2019 #4

windows 10 Grasswire2 Apr 2019 #12

And I don't think you can swap the internal hard drive on a Stream. ZZenith Apr 2019 #5

Your hard drivs capacity and your installed memory are seperate issues. CentralMass Apr 2019 #10

All in all, though - still better than keyboard issues! ZZenith Apr 2019 #11

You can get a 256 gb Samsung EVO SD card for 40 bucks ucrdem Apr 2019 #13

0. Hard drive advice for a dummy? marcus77 May 2019 #14