Hello everyone.

It’s been a month of silence. I was working on a job and got enough cash to upgrade my laptop a bit. What upgrades did I do?

First off, I got a new hard drive. Sort of. The drive you see in the picture (inside the ESD protective bag) is a Solid State Hybrid Drive. It’s essentially a hard drive with a bit of an SSD working as a cache. In all essentials, it copies frequently used files to the SSD and loads them from it when they are loaded. This hard drive has 2 Terabyte space with 8GB SSD used as cache. So not only do I have a lot of space (since I only have a laptop at the moment. I need as much space as I can get), development will be more comfortable (Visual Studio takes a long time to load with extensions).

The second this is getting a good quality thermal paste and putting it on the laptop. Mainly so the laptop runs well and keep it cool.

Of course, replacing the hard drive has this annoyance:

Yup. Reinstalling Windows. I don’t need to explain why. I’m pretty sure everyone knows why. But I was able to recover the project files and my toolbox.

There are still some things to do, but I’ll be back developing soon. Possibly tomorrow.

That is all for now. See you in the next post.