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[priscus]

You can also get a version accepting both 2.5 inch, ans 3.5 inch drives.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01H1U6PRS/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Have one on one of my machines, and just purchased a second for another machine, though I will have quite a lot of unscrambling to do first. Quite a lot of OS's on the device, and some of them storing their back-up or restore data on partitions of yet another disk, and the Linuxes sharing vm swap space, which for performance is a SSD, treated as an expendable.

 

[trimis]

One bit of feedback that I am frequently encountering whilst researching this is numerous complaints from users who having paid fee up front, and locked into a service for a few years, only to find that a service which had initially been satisfactory, deteriorates as increasing numbers of the sites which they visit are blocking the particular VPN's servers!

The solution is to not pay for "few years". All nine VPNs I listed offer either 1, 3, 6, or 12 months subscriptions. The longer you subscribe, the cheaper the price, but a bargain is not always a bargain. Ain't nothing says you cannot buy a month, then three months, then six months, then a year. You will pay more, but risk less. Test drives are worth the negligible extra expense.

 

[trimis]

Just what does a vpn do exactly? I do not have one nor would I pay for one, it seems it is just to hide you on the internet?? So far, knock on wood , I can do my surfing , watch videos, email with yahoo, come to the forums, what else would a vpn add to that??

On the most basic level a VPN stops the sites you visit from knowing your IP address, and your ISP from knowing which sites you visit. Some VPNs include circumventing geoblocking, filters that nix porn sites, etc.

https://www.pcmag.com/article/352757/you-need-a-vpn-and-heres-why
https://www.howtogeek.com/133680/htg-explains-what-is-a-vpn/
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/reasons-to-use-vpn/

 

[trimis]

do not have a fast internet connection to my knowledge, takes a good 30 seconds or more for firefox to open, possibly due to my uBlock origin, , nor do I even know what a proxy server is, in firefox options and mypal, there is a section to choose system proxy or no proxy, I have tried both ways with no difference in internet action. I do not use the email service of my isp provider, I use yahoo.

not sure if any one is spying on me, but if they are it must be pretty dull for them,

https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-...ve-nothing-hide-you-still-have-something-fear
https://thenextweb.com/opinion/2016/02/11/i-have-nothing-to-hide-is-killing-the-privacy-argument/
https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1159&context=faculty_publications

https://www.cnet.com/news/yahoo-aol-oath-privacy-policy-verizon-emails-messages/
https://www.komando.com/happening-n...privacy-policy-changes-you-need-to-know-about

 

[cleverscreenname]

do not have a fast internet connection to my knowledge, takes a good 30 seconds or more for firefox to open, possibly due to my uBlock origin,

I recommend setting Firefox to clear the browser cache on every close, or removing or disabling the disk cache all together via about:config
How often do you defrag? Once is much better than never, but to make everything snappy I use the automatic overnight schedule for Auslogics Disk Defrag (and most 3rd-party defrags have this feature). The more often it runs the quicker it completes, unlike XP's pretty bad built in defrag.