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Immortal Sins
7 years ago

Back in action.


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?

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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:

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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.

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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.

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