I’ve recently replaced the hard drives in my Toshiba test laptops with 120GB SSD drives. The speed of the SSD’s is fantastic, but the larger sized models are still a little pricey, so I’ve ended up with limited storage.
The open hard drive caddy on a Toshiba laptop. Ready to slide in a removable hard drive for extra storage space or backing up.
On the other hand I have a DVD drive that I never use.
Our clients son was using his laptop on his bed. A laptops fan is designed to suck air in to keep the hard drive cool, so using the laptop on a soft surface can prevent air flow and also allow the fan to suck dust from the bed up into the cooling system. After a while the laptop starts clog up and overheat, which causes frequent shut downs and eventually damage to the internal components.
Dave had to pull the entire laptop apart to remove the dust and replace the arctic silver thermal paste.
In the past MFC Bubble Jet printers have been popular in home offices and small businesses. While colour laser printers have always been more economical per page printed, the high purchase and re-stock (toner) prices have limited them to big business.
There are now a range of Colour Laser MFC’s starting at $300 that make laser printing feasible for the home office or small business.
The speed, affordability and storage capacity on NAS Drives these days make them a viable alternative to a file server for a home office or small businesses who need document storage and sharing ability without the other bells and whistles offered by a full server.
With NAS drives priced as low as $250, up to $1,000 for 4x4TB hard drives they can allow multiple users to access shared documents as fast as a file server. They allow RAID redundancy – this means you can have 2 hard drives storing the same data so that if one hard drive dies your data is still safe. Continue reading NAS drives can replace file servers for small businesses.→
