I have the same experience a bit varied, I'm majoring in embedded systems and almost everyone uses pen and paper.
Then I took some Law-courses and there i felt like most used laptops (and the laptops they used weren't any good, the noise of 30 "clicky" keyboards gets really annoying).
I also feel that its a lot easier and smoother to write notes on paper, You can really structure your notes how you want without clicking everywhere.
A bit of a misleading title, in the end he had a 32bit installation of Windows... he upgraded to the 64bit version and everything was fine. No RAM to blame.
Heres a short program that the Finnish Broadcasting company did with an American visiting Nordic prisons/correctional institues, just to show a different thinking. Punishment or Rehabilitation.
http://arenan.yle.fi/tv/2428667
And a couple of days ago Microsoft announced that Office 365 subscribers gets unlimited OneDrive storage (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8517475). Which also can upload all your photos...
"I am still working on the best way to access the data without disconnecting the drive from the Raspberry Pi every time I want to add/remove something."
It sounds like he's putting the data on the USB drives from other computers, not from the RPi.
I also feel that its a lot easier and smoother to write notes on paper, You can really structure your notes how you want without clicking everywhere.