The Hard and the Soft
I have been listening to Gibson’s Count Zero while I take my walk. The weather hasn’t been cooperating, so I am only 1/3 of the way through after two weeks.
Gibson uses a phrase ‘The Hard and the Soft’ meaning hardware and software. I have not done anything for my computer upgrade plans.
I want to upgrade my old Dell i5 that has 4G ram and a 1 TB drive. I bought 16G of ram on eBay. I have a 256G SSD that I want to add as a second drive. At the same time, I want to take the 4G chips that I replace in my machine and put them in Erica’s old Dell, so she has 8G of ram. I figure I should get another SATA SSD, so I can upgrade her and get rid of the clunky old hard disk.
Recap: Replace ram on my machine and add another SSD. Add removed ram to Erica’s machine and replace HD with SSD.
Replacing Erica’s HD involves cloning her current disk, which is time-consuming. Adding ram is trivial.
Replacing my ram is trivial. Adding the new SSD is only a matter of figuring out how to format it for a Hackintosh.
I need a SSD SATA data cable for my new SSD and one to use for Erica’s new SSD to run the clone.
I have a 256G SATA SSD WD Blue for my addition disk. I need a 1 TB SSD for Erica’s machine, which will cost me $85. WD Blue are best rated, so that’s the way I’ll go.
I ordered a handful of SATA cables because I can’t find my stash (brain fog). I need to order Erica’s SSD, and I am thinking about doing that.
While I have Erica’s machine open, I’ll vacuum it because I think that it is full of cat hair.
So you see, I am still working on Hardware, just not moving forward very fast. I need to finish this step before I can move onto creating my Hackintosh.