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From: RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Saved my mom's 2012 Mac Mini from the dump with Linux Mint 21.3
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2024 20:43:05 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2024-06-17, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
> RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> wrote at 00:28 this Monday (GMT):
>> On 2024-06-16, Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>> On 2024-06-16 18:14, Hunter wrote:
>>>> On Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:56:02 -0400
>>>> Andrzej Matuch <andrzej@matu.ch> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Just finished installing it. It took an enormous amount of time as a
>>>>> result of the slow HD on the machine and the fact that USB ports on
>>>>> this thing don't support anything faster than USB 2.0. Still, it's
>>>>> done. It's a usable computer again.
>>>> 
>>>> Great. Linux breathes life into old machines, but for extremely
>>>> low spec ones I prefer to have something like AntiX (mainly because
>>>> of the low memory footprint).
>>>
>>> It's not going to be a daily machine, so I don't really mind if it's a 
>>> little slower than it can be. It's clearly not very fast by today's 
>>> standards, but it does the job as it is.
>>
>> Used SSDs are so inexpensive now that I can't imagine using hard drives for 
>> anything but backup — even on old machines.
>
>
> Why backup? Do they last longer?

No, just so I don't have to throw them away. I buy 2.5" USB 3.2 enclosures 
for less than $5 shipped and just stick the 500 GB 2.5" hard drives in 
those. Cheaper than buying a USB drive. I think 3.5" enclosures are a bit 
more expensive, but it's still the same idea. (They may also last longer, I 
don't know about that.)

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