We just answered an email from a client asking for advice about storing data, and we thought it might be of interest to other digital packrats out there… If money was no object, we’d all have multi-terabyte drives in our PCs and keep every file we ever created at our fingertips. Instead, we prioritize, just [...]
Many people are under the impression that a computer’s performance deteriorates with age. I’d like to disspell that myth: computers are mostly solid-state technology that is largely unaffected by age. I’m not saying that older computers don’t run more slowly, but once we correct the notion that the slow-down is caused by its unalterable age, the problem becomes one that can usually be remedied without buying a newer computer.
