Re: Joel won't, so I will (was Re: Bungling Apple Lost the Plot on Texting

Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:

How can you pretend that a USB-connected
external drive is the same thing as an internal storage drive?

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By considering the actual performance of a USB 3.2 storage device?
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You read exactly like the superficially "expert" 1337 Linux dweeb you are:
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"USB???? Uggh... ...USB sux, man!".

It doesn't suck for an external drive, using an external drive sucks
as a continuous solution.

I still have an old 1 TB external hard drive, I use for my backups.
It's remarkably simple, just use a file browser to copy files, and use
its extra space for temporary storage when doing a clean OS reinstall.
Boom.

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So you have no actual backup solution at all beyond, "I'll copy the
files over manually"?

Is there supposed to be a more straightforward way?

I'm not using any SATA device, not even a DVD drive.

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Because it's against your religion, or... ...what?

Well, optical drives are basically unneeded, and SATA storage drives
are outdated.  The NVMe is the only internal media, I install Win/Lin
from USB media, and my external hard drive is for backups.

I'm reasonably sure that my SSD's speeds are comparable to Macs of its
time.

Are you, though?
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:-)

It might not be precisely the same, but is it really something I'd
notice?  When I initially installed Win10, it was effortless.  Doing
cumulative updates is where it gets slow (a drawback of Winblows,
unless that's gotten better in the last year).

--
Joel W. Crump

Amendment XIV
Section 1.

[...] No state shall make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of
life, liberty, or property, without due process of law;
nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal
protection of the laws.

Dobbs rewrites this, it is invalid precedent.  States are
liable for denying needed abortions, e.g. TX.