What's the Best Way To Move To A New HDD

[bennyboy]

That's quite the beast setup you have there. Going for industrial quality, I see.

Why would you buy Windows 7 though? 10 is MUCH better.

[ignoramus]

Can't go wrong with Samsung Evo!

I'm using a 950 Pro SSD. Fast but now crazy slow compared to M2.

[popeyespappy]

That's quite the beast setup you have there.  Going for industrial quality, I see.

Why would you buy Windows 7 though?  10 is MUCH better.

Mainly for the hard drives. Clemson estimates they are going to generate about 12 TB of files during the capture process. I'd hate to have download that more than once...

Because our IT department, i.e. Mike, isn't a fan.

[bennyboy]

Oh I'm curious now. What's wrong with windows 10?

My homepage is running on Server 2016 (2017?), which is pretty much Windows 10. I find it quite robust, and especially useful in diagnosing and solving problems.

I mean. . . there's nothing wrong with Windows 7, by the end it was tight. But I feel the same way about 10.

[ignoramus]

Benny, have you tried the win 10 backend for Android?

Just curious how much of a hog.

[ReptilianPeon]

I ended up buying a new CPU, HDD, RAM and motherboard for those curious. I'm going to try installing them this weekend. Hopefully it won't be too difficult.

[bennyboy]

Benny, have you tried the win 10 backend for Android?

Just curious how much of a hog.

I'd have to say no, partly because I don't know what it is.

I know all the individual words, but I don't know what a "win 10 backend for Android" means. It's a little embarrassing, since I've done a huge amount of Windows programming, and written a couple Android apps, one of which is in the Google Play store right now.

[ignoramus]

Just IOT win10 engine ... no desktop display.

It's an option to dl for my raspberry Pi 3B+
Can't be that much of a hog if it runs on a Pi...

[popeyespappy]

Oh I'm curious now.  What's wrong with windows 10?

My homepage is running on Server 2016 (2017?), which is pretty much Windows 10.  I find it quite robust, and especially useful in diagnosing and solving problems.

I mean. . . there's nothing wrong with Windows 7, by the end it was tight.  But I feel the same way about 10.

I don't have any complaints with Windows 10. I'm running it on my personal laptop and a micro PC I use as a media server. I have found it to be fast and stable. Mike's problem with it is like most of us he has more stuff to do than time to do it. He hasn't had the time to concentrate on learning the in and outs of 10. That's happening slowly over time because most of the new PC's we have been buying at work are Windows 10 machines, but he just isn't as comfortable with 10 as he is with 7 at this point in time. We will both be using this new workstation, me for the images, him to digitize several hundred old audio tapes. He said he would rather use 7 so 7 it is.

[bennyboy]

Just IOT win10 engine ... no desktop display.

It's an option to dl for my raspberry Pi 3B+  
Can't be that much of a hog if it runs on a Pi...

Oh.

I don't know much about that stuff.  But I do have some possibly related experience-- I now write my Android apps using Xamarin in Visual Studio (which is the Microsoft development platform), which basically uses the Windows SDK.  So when I want for example to ftp a sound file that someone's just recorded on their phone to my server, I use the same C# libraries and code that I use in Windows programming, instead of having to find and use some old android FTP java library like I did last time.  I've completely abandoned the Android development environment, and for what I'm doing, it's cut the stress and time of development to about 10%

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I don't have any complaints with Windows 10. I'm running it on my personal laptop and a micro PC I use as a media server. I have found it to be fast and stable. Mike's problem with it is like most of us he has more stuff to do than time to do it. He hasn't had the time to concentrate on learning the in and outs of 10. That's happening slowly over time because most of the new PC's we have been buying at work are Windows 10 machines, but he just isn't as comfortable with 10 as he is with 7 at this point in time. We will both be using this new workstation, me for the images, him to digitize several hundred old audio tapes. He said he would rather use 7 so 7 it is.

Oh OK. My only worries would have been that Windows 7 couldn't handle >2TB drives, and that Microsoft has stopped updating the system for security flaws. It definitely does handle the drives.

As for security, Windows 7 will be supported until 2020. And anyway, installing a new OS these days takes a matter of minutes. I'd recommend moving your desktop and documents folders to a drive other than your OS drive, so you can be as merciless with your OS installation as I am-- if ANYTHING bugs me at all, I will almost immediately wipe the drive and re-install windows.