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Our two tech writers sit behind me. They use Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, and Photoshop, as well as several large-ish art packages. They are constantly wrangling disk space, moving files around trying to free enough room to do their job. They have one 250GB drive apiece  .
I sit here with two 2TB SSD's and a 2TB hard drive (currently empty).
For the hour or so each and every day wasted on this activity, they could buy an SSD for each and they'd never have to do this again.
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Pay me now or pay me later.
If you can't find time to do it right the first time, how are you going to find time to do it again?
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Gary Wheeler wrote: ... and they'd never have to do this again.
Nah. They buy them an SSD each and in six months, they will be full again. I have a 1TB SSD, a 500GB SSD, and 2 1TB HDDs in my desktop, plus a 16TB NAS, a 4TB NAS, and a 2TB NAS under the desk, a pile of 2TB and 4TB external drives (some of which are stored at a friends house at any given time). And every time I upgrade storage, it gets fuller ... 
Get them a big heavy duty NAS (I can recommend QNAP) and put it under someone else's control. They will fill that too, but at least it stands a chance of being backed up ...
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Or repurpose a desktop and put TrueNAS on it.
Works for me.
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A "real" NAS uses less power, particularly when it isn't being accessed - mine idles at less than 20W (and wakes immediately on LAN use) and can sleep at less than 1W.
My PC on the other handy is a greedy bugger! 
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Gary Wheeler wrote: buy an SSD for each and they'd never have to do this again
Their SSD will be full again within a few days.
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11917640 Member wrote: Their SSD will be full again within a few days.
@Gary-Wheeler
Did one of the two tech writers actually write this post?
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I was in a similar situation some years ago; where our company had given a 250GB laptop. Outlook mails with big attachments used to take space, mine was a development machine.
Then someone suggested WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics [^]. Installed this, and got to know exactly where the bulky files reside, mostly in the C:\Users...\AppData subfolders. Used to regularly move-to-external-hard-disk/delete unwanted bulky files, to make space. This was not very time-consuming, and would be done maybe once a week or fortnight.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: Our two tech writers
You had me at "two tech writers"!
Most companies do not have even 1 tech writer.
Doesn't your company know that companies don't write manuals any more? 
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When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M and customers don't like to maintain it properly, you write user and service manuals as CYA.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: When your equipment sells for $1.5M-$2.5M
!!!
I thought I remembered that you worked on/built large expensive equipment. 
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Yup. We build commercial inkjet printing systems that print full color, front and back, at up to 17 feet of paper per second.
In other words, we ain't your mama's DeskJet .
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Gary Wheeler wrote: up to 17 feet of paper per second
Truly amazing! That's got to be cool to watch it print.
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I agree, does your company have videos of said machinery in action?
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Man! Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: Imagine the paper cut you could get at that speed!
You put that image in my mind...
Guillotines might be less efficient.
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Indeed. It's running joke about lethal paper cuts. The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
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Quote: The other joke is "baptism" when the machine dumps ink on you.
That only happens when you are wearing a new suit and / or tie to meet a client ...
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We actual did that to a corporate guy touring one of the labs. Some tubing on a test stand cut loose and sprayed him with yellow ink.
We bought him a new suit  .
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Have heard that in such printer systems, the software is generally the slower component amongst hardware and software; hardware, even though mechanical / electro-mechanical is faster among the two.
Is this true?
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We have dedicated computers and hardware to handle high-speed interactions. Print data for example is sent over fiber optic links from the data source to the printheads.
Our controller application (the part I work on) is a Windows UI application and a group of services, all heavily multithreaded.
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Gary Wheeler wrote: inkjet
Gary Wheeler wrote: 17 feet of paper per second
And the home consumer thinks his inkjet printer goes through ink fast...
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We sell ink in 5L "cubies" (think wine box, just cubical), 208L drums, and 1000+L tubs.
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Having worked on such printers back in the 90's in my hardware maintenance days, often in the middle of the night (one such night with a 102 degree fever), I bet I can make a very good guess which company you work for.
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