Re: Putting together a computer from old components

On 29 Nov 2021 22:35:14 GMT
Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 29 Nov 2021 at 18:46:48 GMT, "Spiros Bousbouras" <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On 29 Nov 2021 15:16:44 GMT
> > Jaimie Vandenbergh <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Definitely put as much RAM in the machine as it can take, in order to
> >> keep it even vaguely viable. Use SSDs as well - give the old thing every
> >> possible advantage.
> > 
> > As I say in  <[email protected]> , 2 gigabytes RAM work fine at
> > present and I don't expect that my computing needs will go up.
> 
> You don't use the modern web much, I take it - that forces higher specs
> on you otherwise, or your view of the Internet will slowly constrict.

I do but mostly from a text browser and it's lightning fast !

> >  But if it's
> > easy to add more , I will add more. I also don't see why SSD vs hard disk
> > would matter to me because my current hard disk doesn't get much work.
> 
> Swap.

Do you mean swap memory ? My understanding is that if your applications require
so much memory that they need to use swap memory then it's going to make the
computer very slow whether you use a SSD or hard disk.

> >> What I'd actually suggest is a Pi4 or CM4/8gig though.

[Information about the Raspberry Pi snipped.]

Thanks for all that. If I have any further questions , I will post them on
comp.sys.raspberry-pi .