Re: Re: New Toy!
By: poindexter FORTRAN to Arelor on Sat Dec 12 2020 07:24 am

Arelor wrote to HusTler <=-

I am not a great fan of SSD but I can see the advantages for a portable unit.

For a desktop, I'd rather get 2 huge drives and mirror them for the
price of an SSD. Although mirroring two SSDs wouldn't be bad...

... The exception also declares the rule

Hey, you can always use an SSD for cache or for journaling, and a regular HDD for storage, like the real pros.
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Re: Re: New Toy!
By: MRO to poindexter FORTRAN on Sat Dec 12 2020 09:18 pm

have you SEEN the price of ssds? they are super cheap now

$200 ain't bad for a 2TB SSD, but you can get a 2TB SATA drive for
a quarter of that.

Well most people are getting it for their OS to speed things up.
so 2tb is too big.

and if you are a gamer there arent any games out that take that much space.

It's good to have an inexpensive option for storage though.. I need something to store all my photos (which go back many years), music, etc. I also like taking photos and doing photo editing sometimes, as well as some occasional light video editing. I recently bought an 8TB 7200RPM HDD for my PC for less than $200.

Nightfox

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Re: New Toy!
By: MRO to HusTler on Fri Dec 11 2020 09:10 pm

Re: New Toy!
By: HusTler to All on Thu Dec 10 2020 07:56 am

So I'm pretty much done setting up my brand new Lenevo Ideapad. It has AMD A9 processor 3gz. It boots in 15 sec from the 120G SSD. I didn't kn a laptop could boot that fast. 16 seconds from power on. I want to than everyone that recommended Lenevo. It really is built to last. I don't n help with it right now. I just to post my joy :-)

i got an SSD but i havent been using it much. i havent even migrated over ye i installed some games on it and didnt really notice much of a difference. just wow played better because it's poorly designed.

SSD's really shine when it comes to small file access. Spin time is
eliminated and files can be accessed faster.

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Re: New Toy!
By: Moondog to MRO on Sun Dec 13 2020 11:41 am

i got an SSD but i havent been using it much. i havent even migrated over ye i installed some games on it and didnt really notice much of a difference. just wow played better because it's poorly designed.

SSD's really shine when it comes to small file access. Spin time is eliminated and files can be accessed faster.

SSDs are advantageous whether small or large file access. There is no longer a contiguous file access issue that there was when we were using spinning disks even in a RAID configuration. Putting SSDs in a RAID configuration (RAID5/6) and wide-striping will improve an already high performing solution increasing IOPS exponentially.

Dream Master

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