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<div>Costco can be a good place to buy a computer. Instead of searching for info on the internal details, you can just take it home and see if it works for your particular purposes, software, add-ons. Just keep the packaging and receipt and watch the calendar.</div><div><br></div><div>On the other hand, things come and go. What are the chances that I could find the USB memory if I went there tomorrow? For that matter, different stores have different items in stock or not.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, December 1, 2018, 10:15:19 PM AST, Tony Godshall <apgodshall@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888"><div><div>Ummm, I've bought 4-5tb in USB 3.1 for ~<span class="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888money">$99</span> at Costco<div><br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"><div class="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888gmail_quote"><div class="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888yqt3699634243" id="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888yqt13598"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Dec 1, 2018, 12:51 PM <a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a> <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:paulz@ieee.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">paulz@ieee.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote class="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div class="ydp3725252ayiv4859652888m_1386495154610171603ydpf6f49c41yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div></div>
<div>We have to remember that the physics for all hard drives even before there were 8" floppy disks was oxides of iron and similar metals.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>The memory hierarchy concept continues. <span>$100 can buy:<br clear="none">* 16 GB DDR4<br clear="none">* 500GB USB 3.1<br clear="none"></span><div><span>* 2TB HDD with 128MB cache SATA<br clear="none"></span></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span>Also, 8GB RAM is "typical" for laptops on the market today.<br clear="none"></span></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div><span><br clear="none"></span></div><br clear="none">
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