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by tedunangst 3564 days ago
Fortunately disk space, unlike memory, is infinite.
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A lot of our lapops at work (the majority, in fact) have ~240GB SSDs, so that's about 10% of their disks. Not insignificant.
I think your parent was being facetious
I'd much rather you use 21GB on my SSD than 2.1GB of my ram.
It's usually easier to reclaim RAM than storage. Which application am I not using right now? vs What data will I never need again?
Previous versions of chrome...
Hm. On some machines I only have 8x the SSD as RAM. I might take the 2.1GB to 21GB trade in that case :-).
Then don't use Chrome on those machines?
It's all up in the Cloud
21 GB is about 2% of a 1 TB drive. Not that ridiculous.