New laptop recommendations please

[stillp]

How do you work out 4X the processing power Gary? Doesn't look a bad laptop though, but the reviews are mixed. Seems a bit low on both RAM and storage to me, but at least it has an SSD.

Pete

[Gary MacKenzie]

places i based answer on

e1-2100 apu = https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php...00+APU&id=1968
N5000 processor = https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php....10GHz&id=3204

comparison @ https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare...000/1968vs3204

4GB ram in both
says doesn't need games ability
120GB ssd will run anything he needs, can run windows and office on a 64GB drive

[stillp]

Thanks. Not disagreeing, just wondering.

120GB ssd will run anything he needs, can run windows and office on a 64GB drive

Can you really? The problem though is storage for photos etc. My desktop has a 480GB SSD, but it's nearly full, in spite of me using a 3TB hard drive for bulk storage. I should really have a look at what's on there and clean it up.
Pete

[Gary MacKenzie]

I have slow internet at home ( 2mb down , 1/2 mb up ) , but , if you have decent broadband/fibre i would be tempted to store as much online as possible. ( $7 per TB per month roughly )
You are right though if someone needs a lot of storage they need an external drive , BUT , i dont like filling ssd's with data that will only be looked at eratically.
I am lucky , i have a microserver that stores all my data , 4TB Primary raid1 ( 2 x 4TB drives ) storage , mirrored to a 6TB raid1 ( 2 x 3TB drives ) storage.
I would need to lose 3 drives out of the 4 before i couldnt rebuild all the data again , at that point all i could do is cry.

[AlanG]

Gary i defo have a slow internet. Joys of living in the middle of nowhere in Morayshire where fibre is only if you live near to a 'big town'.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Gary i defo have a slow internet. Joys of living in the middle of nowhere in Morayshire where fibre is only if you live near to a 'big town'.

You and I are not far apart.
Local exchange can not supply fibre to the houses it serves and BT refuse to upgrade any green boxes ( there arent any ) , because they prefer running long lines.

[Guest]

I would need to lose 3 drives out of the 4 before i couldnt rebuild all the data again , at that point all i could do is cry.

Are those all the same make and model of hard drive, and all bought at the same time? Then if one of them fails you’d best replace them all ASAP, because chances are the others will follow soon.

[Guest]

Well now Gary has entered I would suggest you take heed of what he says.

[Gary MacKenzie]

Are those all the same make and model of hard drive, and all bought at the same time? Then if one of them fails you’d best replace them all ASAP, because chances are the others will follow soon.

2 x 3tb bought at same time
2 x 4tb bought at same time ( later )

I buy western digital red's ( nas drives ) , i have replaced some already during their lifetime , under warranty , no data loss.
I run hdd checks regularly ( part of the server operating system ) and it gives early warnings of even minor problems.
It is now at the stage where i can no longer afford to have spare drives lying around as spares for replacement.
I get replacement drives within 24 hours , and the raids rebuild overnight.