From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45491384B4 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:17:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9856521C015; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from gw2.antarean.org (gw2.antarean.org [141.105.125.208]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F61A21C005 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ADF41216FB for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:15:22 +0000 () X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from gw2.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (gw2.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SkzHl9iBmYkN for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:15:20 +0000 (%Z) Received: from data.antarean.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gw2.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9F81120ABC for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:15:20 +0000 () Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [10.20.13.200]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 160924C for ; Fri, 6 Nov 2015 08:14:29 +0100 (CET) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] New Gentoo box Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2015 08:16:53 +0100 Message-ID: <2406043.ZKbl4PLXuP@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.9-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <563C4943.6000808@sys-concept.com> References: <563BEA07.4070201@sys-concept.com> <29533042.x3D0Mf0YZZ@andromeda> <563C4943.6000808@sys-concept.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: c20e2ea3-ab92-4f6c-9c11-76dc7a031a21 X-Archives-Hash: ef37cdbcd156e58607b20ed43684f427 On Thursday, November 05, 2015 11:31:31 PM thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > On 11/05/2015 11:06 PM, J. Roeleveld wrote: > > Please do not top-post. > > Thank you for reminder :-/ > > > On Thursday, November 05, 2015 07:17:38 PM thelma@sys-concept.com wrote: > >> When it comes to price I think the 1TB SDD is expensive in my case + > >> $177.99CAD warranty (though I don't know if I need warranty, or why they > >> are charging me for it)? > > > > It might be extended warranty. IOW, more then the usual factory warranty. > > I would ask them about that. > > I think it might be Extended Warranty (I'll take it out), it is not > worth it. > > >> ========= > >> GRANT TOTAL: $1420.98 > >> > >> PS. Expensive like for a small box. > > > > I can't comment on prices, been a while since I looked into a new desktop. > > If that were Euros, I'd find it a lot for what you get. > > No, that was in Canadian Dollars $1420.98 in Euros it would be 952.53 > and in USD 1054.92 > > >> Maybe I don't need 32GB or RAM but even 16GB RAM would save me only > >> $112.99 > > > > My laptop has 16GB Ram and it works quite nicely. Doesn't use swap often. > > Also allows me to run VMs comfortably. > > > >> You might be right, maybe I'll add one HDD for backup (good suggestion). > >> The killer is my 1TB SSD $499.99CAD > > > > Get 1 SSD for the OS, software and your home directory. (240GB is usually > > enough) > > And 1 big HDD for your data. > > I think I'll get rid of Extended Warranty and take a this 1TB SSD > > > Keep your documents and other data out of the home directory if doing > > this. > > I'm not sure I understand. Why keeping document our of the home dir.? Here is how I do it: 1 SSD (small, but big enough): - OS + Software + Home directories 1 HDD (Large) - Documents, Media,.... The reason I do it this way is: - SSD is fast and a lot of software tends to use the home directory for it's data, configuration,.... Problem with SSD: They are expensive when getting the bigger versions. - HDD is a lot cheaper and documents tend to be read once, edited for a lengthy period, then written once. Which is fine for HDD. The only exception I have to the above is my laptop. That one has a large SSD, but only because of the G-force restistance... -- Joost