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katbreitin
3y

Not sure how to handle this one. My new company gave me a surface laptop to do dev ops work.

16 gigs of Ram but only a 256 SSD?

Nothing is installed so far except for MS office and acrobat and I am already running into memory issues.

My last work machine had 1TB HDD and 128 gigs of RAM (i know overkill but I could have several VM’s up and running at once).

What the fuck? Apparently the CTO ordered this piece of shit.

Also no mirco SD card like other models so I have no idea how this is going to fucking work.

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  • 10
    3y
    You're still being spoiled. 640 K ought to be enough for anyone.
  • 2
    3y
    Telll your boss to buy a suitably large SSD (SATA 2.5" or M.2 SATA or NVMe, depending on what the laptop supports), use Clonezilla (live Linux) to make a disk image, replace the existing SSD, restore the disk image, use GpartD or so to resize the last partition.
  • 4
    3y
    USB-C / Thunderbolt, external drive. Be done.

    No loss of warranty and it provides more than enough speed nowadays.
  • 3
    3y
    @IntrusionCM I've had to that before. I got a 128GB USB 3.1 flash drive. They're surprisingly fast. I think you can get 10 Gbps over USB now, and the drives are dirt cheap now.
  • 1
    3y
    Ever heard of
    Git? CI/CD?
  • 4
    3y
    @molaram Come on, 256GB is Apple shit level.
  • 2
    3y
    @Fast-Nop ... And windows sucks even more space (eg installer / updates)
  • 3
    3y
    LOL what ? You can't get by with 256 GB SSD and 16GB of ram ?

    256 is MORE than enought for any dev work. Stop dowloading porn

    Rofl, spoiled brat....
  • 2
    3y
    @IntrusionCM Windows 10 uses around 35GB. Out of 256....
  • 2
    3y
    @NoToJavaScript not really...

    That's the optimistic version of base os.

    I said installer and updates.

    E.g. adding dev environment usually requires docker, language environment, IDE, drivers, ...

    Poof. Space gone.

    E.g. downloading NVIDIA drivers is half an gigabyte... Packed.
  • 3
    3y
    I have almost no pictures/videos on my Windows partition and still I filled about half of my 512 GB drive. With just dev environment and a bunch of non-image files.
  • 1
    3y
    Running docker locally without pruning every God damn two weeks, and 50GB are easily eaten up.
  • 1
    3y
    DevOps by nature is mostly remote work.
    You should be able to use it as SSH or RDP client - even if you can't just install Linux on it.
  • 0
    3y
    @NoToJavaScript @NoToJavaScript Exactly. I don't use more than 100GB. I download my movies and photos in an external drive

    @katbreitin do you do 3D design or something?
  • 0
    3y
    @NoToJavaScript 256 gigs is definitely not enough for everything. Let me quote HW requirements for AOSP development:

    At least 250GB of free disk space to check out the code and an extra 150 GB to build it. If you conduct multiple builds, you need additional space.
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