basslord1124
Master member
All right, so first off...I'm an IT guy and enjoy computers/technology. I don't make a lot of money to get every piece of technology but I use what I can. I am also a data hoarder apparently lol..something I have just now recently realized. I also use Linux sometimes.
So anyways, in our household, my wife and I both have laptops. In fact, she just got a new laptop recently. She also has a desktop she built years ago that is now collecting dust...still works fine. Running Windows 7 I think. I also have 2 desktops...an old one running XP that I used mainly for recording music on AND a Debian Linux server that I used for data storage mainly. Well about the same time my wife got her new laptop, my old XP desktop crashed...think the power supply went out. I was probably gonna be upgrading that old desktop anyways...new hardware and getting rid of XP. But since this happened, I have now decided to "attempt" to do music recording on my laptop. If this works out well, I can more or less get rid of my desktop. I don't record music like I used to anyways, just every now and then. And the laptop has newer hardware and does run Windows 10. I have high hopes that this setup will work pretty good.
Well since starting this transition, it has allowed me to really see all the data that has collected over the years. And I am really going to be having my hands full going through some of this data and figuring out what's worth keeping and what I can live without. Pictures, videos, old music that has accumulated over the last decade...not just me but my wife as well. Needless to say, my Linux server is going to be getting some hard drive upgrades or maybe even picking up an external hard drive too. And then anytime we get a new smartphone, it eventually gets filled up and the data gets offloaded onto a laptop/desktop computer so we can fill the smartphone back up again.
Ugghh, I may have this sorted out before I die. lol.
So anyways, in our household, my wife and I both have laptops. In fact, she just got a new laptop recently. She also has a desktop she built years ago that is now collecting dust...still works fine. Running Windows 7 I think. I also have 2 desktops...an old one running XP that I used mainly for recording music on AND a Debian Linux server that I used for data storage mainly. Well about the same time my wife got her new laptop, my old XP desktop crashed...think the power supply went out. I was probably gonna be upgrading that old desktop anyways...new hardware and getting rid of XP. But since this happened, I have now decided to "attempt" to do music recording on my laptop. If this works out well, I can more or less get rid of my desktop. I don't record music like I used to anyways, just every now and then. And the laptop has newer hardware and does run Windows 10. I have high hopes that this setup will work pretty good.
Well since starting this transition, it has allowed me to really see all the data that has collected over the years. And I am really going to be having my hands full going through some of this data and figuring out what's worth keeping and what I can live without. Pictures, videos, old music that has accumulated over the last decade...not just me but my wife as well. Needless to say, my Linux server is going to be getting some hard drive upgrades or maybe even picking up an external hard drive too. And then anytime we get a new smartphone, it eventually gets filled up and the data gets offloaded onto a laptop/desktop computer so we can fill the smartphone back up again.
Ugghh, I may have this sorted out before I die. lol.