I know, I know... it's way overdue. Current stats: Storage 500 GB SSD (w/ Win7 installed) 2 TB HardDrive (basically my dump drive for files and secondary games) both drives have roughly 20% of free space left. GPU GTX 960 Nvidia RAM 16 GB (x2 8GB, GSkill brand) currently only using 2/4 of my total RAM slots on my motherboard. My SSD is woefully inadequate for the amount of shit I have on here. Upgrading my primary storage is a priority. My to do list (in order of importance): Need new (bigger) SSD to save my new copy of Win10 on (this is why I haven't upgraded yet). Upgrade my GPU Install Win10 Possibly upgrade RAM? Any recommendations for SSD drive brands and/or sizes? What about GPUs or RAM? Any helpful advice is appreciated.
yes, need more storage. and yes, my old 960 is still going strong after all these years. was a great purchase. I plan to pass it on to a family member or keep it as a back up.
I think I found my primary storage at least: https://www.bestbuy.com/site/wd-blue-4tb-sata-2-5-internal-solid-state-drive/6385535.p?skuId=6385535 $600 4 TB ssd going for $387 Normally, I would shop around online stores, but for this stuff I want to buy from a brick and mortar store for easier return method in case something is defective.
Over here it's a hassle to return something you got from a store - "you saw how it was" - but online orders are zero issue. But of course I remember when there was this great computer shop in the city I lived in that I would bicycle to and handle stuff right there - and there never was any issue with their refunds or replacements and it was a 30 minute affair to go there and get the new replacement part whereas nothing is ever 30 minutes online.
I mean caveat emptor really. If you didn't bring your scanning tunneling electron microscope with you to the store and inspect every individual gate of the flash memory for defects that's on your head.
And stuff like as it were in the past, buying a monitor and they give it to you boxed and you can't turn it on at the store but when you get home a few pixels are dead in the middle. "But you had the opportunity to study the package at the store though you weren't allowed to open or test it". Yea, it's a weird legal construct. On the other hand you can order a few racks of clothes home and have your own clothes store session at home and then return it all, free of charge. The cost of those sessions is then just added to the prices.
That sounds weirdly inefficient. I wonder what kind of logistical burden that adds for all the shipped returns.
Yes, mail sale companies have to nost just package and ship and pay the shipping and packaging costs, those goods will be temporarily out of their stock and then they will have to receive, unpack, check and recatalogue the returned items back into their stock. That does cost money. There's an increasing tendency to move towards higher degrees of automation in warehouse management. Hell, that's a development idea... I could try and come up with a system that does preliminary checking to the goods returned and has automated collection, packaging, sealing etc. and minimize the human work phases... (Except I have actual games and work to do)
