It#s not blisteringly fast but perfectly adequate for what I need. A run of WXSim autolearn doing quite a lot of comparisons takes about 10-15 minutes elapsed but does not stop me from doing other stuff. I have been pleasantly surprised.
I now have my old i5 laptop back now fixed with new cpu fan, minus the piece of brass which was floating about inside and causing all sorts of crashes, running other stuff
OK…exploring further…how big a HDD is really needed for WD and WxSIM these days? I’d like to use an SSD (less power and noise). W10 needs about 32GB. I’m guessing a 128GB SSD would probably give enough space to install/use for data?
I’m not overly worried about speed. It’s going to sit in a corner processing weather data and I won’t be using it as an end-user device. As long as it can update my web site and run WxSIM in a reasonable timescale then that’s fine.
I have a 320GB HDD in mine (which was what I was using in the laptop). It currently uses about 40GB for the C drive which has the WD program directory on it, and about 110GB on the D drive which houses maily several years worth of WD log files and all my WXSim stuff again for quite a few years.
I’ve been running a Shuttle XS36V4 for a couple years now with good results. I have a 250 GB SSD along with 8 GB of ram. Running WD, WxSim and several temp monitor programs (home automation type) with W7 Pro and the CPU barely breaks a sweat. Also very low power running 10 - 12 watts max with a JJ1900. Actually some of the newer Shuttles look very promising also.
The SSD in my tiny Chinese one gave up the ghost a couple of months ago (after 3 years). Have put in 128 GB one now after a struggle to find one that would fit (it’s a bare PCB about 5 x 3 cm). I feel more relaxed now it has the extra free space.
Do you remember when Bill Gates said 640 kb of RAM and 5 MB of HDD was enough for any PC?
I know he said it but it was before my time with my 1st PC, i was on Windows 95 so i just missed the dos years
although dos 7 i think it was was still accessible, i think we were talking low ram then though, about 1mb or sommat daft
like that lol
That’s unfortunate. The Intel SSD in my Atom WD PC has been running 24x7 for 5 years now, it tells me it has 90% life left
The Intel has a maintenance function that is scheduled to run each night. I have a couple of Samsung SSD’s too but how they handle their housekeeping is mystery :?
An hour and 15 minutes to install rubbish, namely, speech recognition, English typing (thats for you guys over the pond i beleive :x ) also 358mb of Englush (US) Retail Demo Content WTF?? more speech and handwriting stuff, about a gig’s worth so far and its still installing stuff even though its completed lol Why, just, why…