From: Don Tai via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
My laptop has 12G ram, but I notice I hardly ever go above 6G. Do you think you need that much?
Superstition: if you hoard browser tabs like I do, I think memory sometime runs out. Probably only a few sites eat RAM like crazy but I haven't identified them. Even with the about:performance feature of FireFox. 12G is an odd size. Usually you want a power of two so that the RAM modules are paired for higher performance. DDR5 has added non-power-of-2 modules so multiples of 24G can make sense.
4T disk is..eye rolling for me.
HDDs have some niches. I recently bought a couple of 14T external drives from BestBuy.ca for $249 + tax each. I intend them to be part of my family's backup and archive solution. (Which is it Hugh? It ought not to be both.) Anyway, I don't really see buying 4T hard drives in this era. Larger or SSD. Maybe maybe 4T makes sense if you are building a modest RAID array.