This guy, Thio Joe, has the best Windows resources (both 10 and 11) on YouTube. He has extensive knowledge but also a pleasant presentation style. Well worth subscribing to.
Can you imagine how long that video would be if a Texan or Deputy Dawg was speaking it🙂
I might see if any of my lappytoppys might be up for this. Or I might just leave well alone 😉
Quobuz Hi-Res Streaming over Lan, Interface Bubble UPnP Android app DLNA / Renderer Sonore Ultrarendu -> Gustard U18 Reclocker -> Najda DSP X/O DAC -> 5 Amps -> 5 way front loaded horn system. Linear PSU's everywhere.
Technics SP-10 / Slate plinth / Ebony armboard / Musical Fidelity FR64s arm / SPU Royal N cart -> Najda ADC etc. Sonos system around the house.
We will then know what to do when we have to move over
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Windows 11 on a new machine is a no-brainer. Go for it, it makes a great deal of sense. The OS is secure and fast.
Windows 11 migration on an older machine needs some investigation and thinking about. In particular, if you have the following issues I would say think about getting a new machine:
- No TPM - Unsupported CPU - No SSD - Less than 8GB RAM
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I can just move the excellent Samsung SSD 950 Pro M.2 over to the new machine and carry on as before.
I am having to control myself not to get the Samsung 980 Pro NVMe. I already have four 1TB SSDs. But the advertising blurb on the 980 Pro is near irresistible.
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I can just move the excellent Samsung SSD 950 Pro M.2 over to the new machine and carry on as before.
I am having to control myself not to get the Samsung 980 Pro NVMe. I already have four 1TB SSDs. But the advertising blurb on the 980 Pro is near irresistible.
Looks impressive Prices just keep coming down
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I am having to control myself not to get the Samsung 980 Pro NVMe. I already have four 1TB SSDs. But the advertising blurb on the 980 Pro is near irresistible.
Do it. The 980 Pro is faster than you think possible. It mauls big jobs into submission and makes PCs go very fast indeed (works well with my 6-core AMD machine).
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So far so good for me. Minisforum AMD Ryzen 5 6-core, 16GB DDR4, 512GB Samsung 980 Pro mini beast has been totally stable and reliable with W11 and goes like a very fast thing. I use it with two desktops to keep home and work things separate. Lovely machine and W11 is noticeably faster than W10 on the same hardware.
The Dell(boy) laptop I've bought is nowhere near a new machine. It's a 14" Intel Core i5-6200U @ 2.30Ghz model with full 1920x1080 screen and integral Intel HD Graphics 620. I'd have loved the version that comes with Nvidia graphics and a touch screen, but needed to keep the price below stratospheric.
It comes as standard with Win 11 Pro installed on a 256GB SSD, and I've ordered a 1TB Seagate BarraCuda 510 series SSD to sit next to that. The machine has two memory slots, one of which is populated, with 8MB of DDR3 memory. After doing my due diligence and reading that mixing two different "types" of memory doesn't always go well on these machines I've decided to rip that out and install 2x8Mb of Corsair Vengeance DDR4 memory in its place.
I was especially pleased with the SSD. I picked up a factory recertified and sealed unit for less than eighty quid. The memory was under £60 from the Corsair shop on Amazon.
It won't be lightspeed, but it should work pretty well. At least, I hope so.
The laptop has arrived, and despite it being graded "B" I can't find any marks worthy of the name anywhere on it. I've got the memory, and the SSD arrives in the next hour or so. I've loaded a few bits of essential software, NordVPN, LastPass, Chrome, etc. and when the SSD turns up I shall start attacking it with screwdrivers.
I didn't use to need the internet, my wife knew everything.
Of course, it's never as easy as that, is it? Despite the PTB saying that there would be 2 memory slots and only one would be populated with 8 Mb of memory there were two slots, but each had a 4Mb module in place. It was a decent decision (even if it was for the wrong reason) to buy 2x8Mb modules. They went in smoothly and were recognised straight away.
The 1Tb FireCuda SSD is a different story. Despite the little bonus of the FireCuda being a slightly better drive then the BarraCuda I ordered, it's a very light paperwight at the moment. When Dell say you can add a second drive they mean that you can add a first SSD drive should you have a "normal" drive installed in your laptop. As it came with Win 11 Pro on a 256Mb SSD and there's no second SSD connector inside, that's what I'm stuck with at the moment, and a nice shiny 1Tb drive sitting on the desk not doing a lot beyond looking pretty.
Options:
#1 - Buy a USB caddy for the new drive in hopes that I can copy the OS across and simply replace my original SSD. #2 - Look for a doohicky that connects a mini PCIe port to an M.2. SSD. I believe there's one (mini PCIe) in the laptop. #3 - Last resort, look at connecting the M.2. SSD via a SATA port inside the laptop.
So, two out of three objectives were achieved. Memory in, and I didn't drop any screws on the floor, which should ALWAYS be an objective.
Use Windows Backup ('old' W7 version still in W10/11) to backup the image-only to a spare external drive. Create a USB boot drive.
Now swap the FireCuda into the M.2 slot, boot up the USB and perform a restore from the external drive. Finally, expand the C: volume or create a D: drive.
It's easy, I've done it lots of times. You don't need any cloning software.
I'm usually quite careful about this sort of thing, but I ordered the wrong "size" caddy for my 22x80 drive. Ah well, it was dirt-cheap, and I've now ordered a "proper" one, that wasn't so dirt-cheap.
I mentioned earlier that I was surprised, and pleased, to receive a Seagate FireCuda drive, instead of the BarraCuda I ordered. I've had a quick nose around on the web and have eventually found a comparison table. As you can see, there's quite an appreciable difference, so at least something's going my way.
Seagate 1TB FireCuda 520
Seagate 1TB BarraCuda 510
Write Speed
Random: 700,000 IOPS 4 KB Files
Random: 600,000 IOPS 4 KB Files
Sequential: 4400 MB/s 128 KB Files
Sequential: 3000 MB/s 128 KB Files
Read Speed
Random: 760,000 IOPS 4 KB Files
Random: 600,000 IOPS 4 KB Files
Sequential: 5000 MB/s 128 KB Files
Sequential: 3400 MB/s 128 KB Files
I didn't use to need the internet, my wife knew everything.