Well I am not a computer guru.. and don't play one on tv ....but archiving data MAY be a cheaper solution than buying a new system. If you have info/data/files etc.. that are rarely accessed, you can safely move it off your computer into a suitable archive format and free up space. As well if you have never emptied your temporary internet file folder, that can free up ooodles of space.
I just asked my tech support guy who strolled by and he said that when you get below 20% of your total available it is REALLY time to look at a solution. Archiving is the most cost efficent solution but he also said that if you are set on upgrading you could always just pickup a 100Gb harddrive for about $60 and it's pretty easy to install.
Thanks! I've already moved about 75% of my documents onto CDs (which is kinda annoying, as I often need to reference past documents). We are also looking into getting some of those little bitty portable cigar thingies that plug into the USB port; is that what you meant by 100Gb harddrive?
My biggest problem, I think, is the Adobe programs I use to do our newsletter - Acrobat takes up 612 Mb, InDesign and Photoshop take up about 180 Mb each. Everything started slowing down when I installed those programs.
You can either use the USB port hardrives which are brilliant or do an internal harddrive installation/upgrade (eg: master/slave it with your current drive)
I? don't know how to do this but am assured it's pretty easy.
And those programs ARE memory hogs but ever so handy.
We store everything on the network and that frees up all the space I need to run Adobe and Photoshop but that doesn't help if you are on a stand alone setup.
*sigh* What I wouldn't give for a network... Well, we have one, sorta; not the kind that has a server, but the kind that lets you access someone else's computer if it's turned on. No central place to store stuff like big honkin' programs. One of the downfalls of working at a relatively small place. (Apparently, up until a month or two before I started, the entire office - 12 employees at the time - worked off of one 56K connection. None of the other computers had internet access.)
My computer has 256 Mb of RAM; it can only take up to 512. :-/ I defragged about two months ago, with no discernible difference. I did gain a bit by cleaning out my temp files.
We just had a techie guy (husband of coworker) come look at the machine. He can't believe I am running InDesign with less than a gig of RAM! *grin* I'm going to borrow a memory card from his wife to see if that helps any, but really, I think I'm going to have to upgrade the whole machine. Which is fine by me, as long as I can convince the boss it's worth it. :)
*grin* See, what I want to tell my boss is: "I need a sexy... erm, I need a new computer!" But I want to make sure that I've looked into it so that I don't feel like I'm asking for a new machine when I don't really *need* it.
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I just asked my tech support guy who strolled by and he said that when you get below 20% of your total available it is REALLY time to look at a solution. Archiving is the most cost efficent solution but he also said that if you are set on upgrading you could always just pickup a 100Gb harddrive for about $60 and it's pretty easy to install.
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My biggest problem, I think, is the Adobe programs I use to do our newsletter - Acrobat takes up 612 Mb, InDesign and Photoshop take up about 180 Mb each. Everything started slowing down when I installed those programs.
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I? don't know how to do this but am assured it's pretty easy.
And those programs ARE memory hogs but ever so handy.
We store everything on the network and that frees up all the space I need to run Adobe and Photoshop but that doesn't help if you are on a stand alone setup.
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We just had a techie guy (husband of coworker) come look at the machine. He can't believe I am running InDesign with less than a gig of RAM! *grin* I'm going to borrow a memory card from his wife to see if that helps any, but really, I think I'm going to have to upgrade the whole machine. Which is fine by me, as long as I can convince the boss it's worth it. :)
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