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  • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

    I'm not buying anything. This is a WORK laptop. If anyone is buying anything it's my boss! :laugh:

    Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

    Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

    Regards, Sander

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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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      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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      Sander Rossel
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      Kirk 10389821 wrote:

      I would be surprised if they did not go for it.

      Be surprised :D We all swap large files around, even my manager. Ah well, as I understood we're getting new laptops pretty soon anyway.

      Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

      Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

      Regards, Sander

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      • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

        HD memory that is. I currently have 223 GB of SSD memory, which is waaaaaaaay to little for multiple Virtual Machines... :sigh: We've got different customers and projects that all require specific versions of tools and different VPN clients. So virtualization seems the key. It also means I currently have three Windows installs, three Visual Studio installs, two SQL Server Management Studio installs, etc. On a 223 GB machine :(

        Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

        Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

        Regards, Sander

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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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          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? :omg:

          Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

          Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

          Regards, Sander

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          • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

            8TB SSD in every dev machine? :omg:

            Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

            Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

            Regards, Sander

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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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              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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              Sander Rossel
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              Video processing sounds expensive :~

              Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

              Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

              Regards, Sander

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              • Sander RosselS Sander Rossel

                Video processing sounds expensive :~

                Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles at my CodeProject profile.

                Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra

                Regards, Sander

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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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