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RE: Windows 10
September 30, 2015 at 12:22 pm
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(September 29, 2015 at 9:05 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: SSDs use wear leveling algorithms for longevity though, I don't think SD cards bother because in most cases, there just isn't enough I/O to matter. Might not matter on a typical consumer system, but I wouldn't use a SD card for primary storage on anything important.
I had to do some research on that myself, because of getting a laptop with an SSD. As far as I understand it there are two types of wear levelling, dynamic and static. SD cards use dynamic and SSDs use static. The idea being that with dynamic wear levelling it only moves around the files that are constantly changing but any static files will not be reallocated. So in other words if you put a file on and leave it there, the write counts for the blocks that it uses will not increase whereas they will for any non-static files, resulting in uneven wear across the whole drive and failure when enough of them fail. Static wear levelling on the other hand moves all files around, even static ones periodically, with the aim of all blocks reaching their write count limit and failing at roughly the same time. So in this case of putting an OS on a SD card I'm not sure what the wear implications would be... there'd be plenty of static files but also a lot of activity. I guess, like an SSD, the more free space you leave on the drive the longer it's going to last whichever type of wear levelling it uses. In other words, for an OS, bigger is better.
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RE: Windows 10
October 10, 2015 at 4:04 pm
I HAVE AN SSHD, BITCHES. PC loads faster than I could scratch my ass.
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RE: Windows 10
October 10, 2015 at 6:57 pm
(October 10, 2015 at 4:04 pm)Marsellus Wallace Wrote: I HAVE AN SSHD, BITCHES. PC loads faster than I could scratch my ass.
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Who doesn't these days? I've been running an SSD as my system drive for almost 8 years now.
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RE: Windows 10
October 10, 2015 at 10:33 pm
Bloody hell, 5T drives are out and not badly priced!
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RE: Windows 10
October 10, 2015 at 11:39 pm
Amazon has one for $139.99, US. I'm looking at getting two of them for a RAID.
It's the 8TB drives that will really kill your pocketbook.
They range from $550-720 at newegg
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RE: Windows 10
October 10, 2015 at 11:56 pm
Ouch! Just wait 3 months.
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RE: Windows 10
October 11, 2015 at 12:08 am
(October 10, 2015 at 11:39 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Amazon has one for $139.99, US. I'm looking at getting two of them for a RAID.
It's the 8TB drives that will really kill your pocketbook.
They range from $550-720 at newegg
I wouldn't want to put 8TB of my shit on a single spinny disk anyways. Oops, your drive failed. Sucks to be you.
I don't remember exactly what I paid for them but I used to have 4 3TB drives in a RAIDZ1 (its now 8 in a RAIDZ2) and they were around $600 a year and a half ago, bulk NAS-grade drives. If one of them goes bad, I don't lose a single byte, and reads are lightning fast, for spinny disks anyways.
What does someone who buys one of those 8TB drives do for backups? Pray?
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RE: Windows 10
October 11, 2015 at 12:09 am
I've been just fine with Windows 10.
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RE: Windows 10
October 11, 2015 at 1:22 am
(October 11, 2015 at 12:08 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (October 10, 2015 at 11:39 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Amazon has one for $139.99, US. I'm looking at getting two of them for a RAID.
It's the 8TB drives that will really kill your pocketbook.
They range from $550-720 at newegg
I wouldn't want to put 8TB of my shit on a single spinny disk anyways. Oops, your drive failed. Sucks to be you.
I don't remember exactly what I paid for them but I used to have 4 3TB drives in a RAIDZ1 (its now 8 in a RAIDZ2) and they were around $600 a year and a half ago, bulk NAS-grade drives. If one of them goes bad, I don't lose a single byte, and reads are lightning fast, for spinny disks anyways.
What does someone who buys one of those 8TB drives do for backups? Pray? Buys a second one for raid 1 obviously!
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RE: Windows 10
October 12, 2015 at 8:26 pm
(October 11, 2015 at 12:08 am)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: (October 10, 2015 at 11:39 pm)SnakeOilWarrior Wrote: Amazon has one for $139.99, US. I'm looking at getting two of them for a RAID.
It's the 8TB drives that will really kill your pocketbook.
They range from $550-720 at newegg
I wouldn't want to put 8TB of my shit on a single spinny disk anyways. Oops, your drive failed. Sucks to be you.
I don't remember exactly what I paid for them but I used to have 4 3TB drives in a RAIDZ1 (its now 8 in a RAIDZ2) and they were around $600 a year and a half ago, bulk NAS-grade drives. If one of them goes bad, I don't lose a single byte, and reads are lightning fast, for spinny disks anyways.
What does someone who buys one of those 8TB drives do for backups? Pray?
I was commenting on the cost, not that I wanted one.
If I ever need 8TB, it would be four 4TB in a RAID 1/0 array.
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