Re: [orca-list] Hard Drive Suggestions?

[Milton <milton duurzaamdigitaal org>]

Hi,

On my Dell Alianware with 750GB hard drive, Ubuntu 18.04 and Orca I 
never met with those problems.

Milton

Op 12-05-19 om 01:13 schreef Matt - Envrin Group via orca-list:
> Hi everyone,
>
> If it matters, I'm running Linux Mint 19.1 MATE 64 bit.
>
> Went blind about 2.5 years ago, and have had constant hard drive
> issues, which I'm certain is due to I/O operations of Orca.  For
> example, with a decent hard drive, I can get about 8 months use of it
> and Orca only shuts off maybe 3 or 4 times a day.  Running a cheap
> haard drive now, and Orca shutsdown maybe 6 or 7 times an hour.
> Anotheerr example is you simply can not run Orca when booting from
> USB, as it always immediately shuts down upon starting, except maybe 1
> out of every 50 times you start Orca you can get maybe 15 seconds
> before it shutsdown.
>
> It's definitely Orca, as I'm a software developer, and doing nothing
> resource intensive.  Base Linux Mint install, and only ever really
> have Firefox, xem text editor, and terminal open.  Guess I'm running
> Nginx and mySQL, but can't see that doing it.  Granted, I do have
> speech rate at 100%, and do move around the windows pretty quick, so
> it's understandable that Orca gets overloaded and shuts down time to
> time.  These are decent laptops -- Dell Inspiron, say 2.4ghz, 8GB RAM,
> 1 TB HD, etc...  so it's not that either.
>
> Anyway, not frustrated or anything, as just part and parcel of being
> blind.  Nonetheless, about to get new hard drives installed on a
> couple laptops I have here.
>
> Just curious, any recommendations for the best hard drive to get?
> Money not really an issue, as definitely willing to spend more for
> better quality on this.  I'm not great at hardware, but Seagate SCSI
> 1TB 15000 RPM good, or?  Am I maybe supposed to be getting a larger
> SSD hard drive, and somehow forcing Orca to utilize that, or?
>
> Any tips appreciated.  Shortly here, I'll send over to this list a
> Ubiquity proceed.cfg file for automated Linux Mint installs if it will
> help anyone.  It will simply allow me to do Linux Mint installs
> without help from a sighted person, as that's always a headache. :-)
> With this, will simply have to ensure BIOS boots from USB, then stick
> the USB in, boot, and ~30 minutes later the computer will boot with a
> fresh install of Linux Mint and will say "screen reader on".  Perfect!
>   Will share once done and tested, in case it's useful for anyone else.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
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