PC Tech Thread

It should also be noted that in the case of an SD card I said "put your documents on their".

You read documents far less than you think you do. Compared to the main drive and constant paging of virtual memory it is as if it is....

Fuck it, that's too many prepositions in a row to continue the sentence.

If any consumer ever reaches the limits of either medium in terms of read/writes I will be truly shocked.

I've never managed it. I've never reached the end life of a hard drive either.

Because storage keeps expanding, as do my needs, and long before any theoretical limit is reached I've upgraded.

You're not trying hard enough. I killed about 4 hdds personally (2 were uberfast and flawed IBMs but the others were WD and Seagate and should've lasted) and quite a few have failed in servers I've worked with.

Have killed a few tb drives from Hitachi, Seagate and WD. All of them were in external harddrives so maybe it was that.

Hence wondering about ssd?

You're not trying hard enough. I killed about 4 hdds personally (2 were uberfast and flawed IBMs but the others were WD and Seagate and should've lasted) and quite a few have failed in servers I've worked with.

Oh I've killed some, but only due to power sags and surges, being dropped or being re-wired.

None through reaching the natural end of life of the product.

Oh I've killed some, but only due to power sags and surges, being dropped or being re-wired.

None through reaching the natural end of life of the product.

So is the tolerance for damage is similar to old style drives?

Excluding dropping them, yes.

Oh I've killed some, but only due to power sags and surges, being dropped or being re-wired.
None through reaching the natural end of life of the product.

Mine all just died. I guess it's possible it was power surge or something but they still powered up just didn't work. Tried all sorts of crap trying to restore (before I took backups you see?) and eventually gave up. Got a replacement under warranty from IBM or whoever took them over (Hitachi?) but never trusted the thing from then on as I'd killed two of the same model at different times.

^^^ I'd expect it to be much better (especially dropping them when they're working) since there's no heads to crash into platters.

Hippy, those weren't Hitachi deskstar, aka deathstars were they?

Mine are/were

Thank you Hippy for merging. Any advice on a desktop to suit my needs would be gratefully received.

I only use it for general office type stuff with a little sound/photo editing added in. So no great fancy needs.

Windows 7?
2-4gb of ram?
500gb hard drive?
£500?

I'm running on considerably less ATM but it'd be nice to have more space.

Hippy, those weren't Hitachi deskstar, aka deathstars were they?

They were IBM drives but googling brings me this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitachi_Deskstar

IBM 75GXP sounds very familiar. $100 per failed drive!! I wan't my fucking money!

Avoid OCZ drives though.. fucking POS they died quite a lot.

I'm tempted with the new Samsung SSDs

Thank you Hippy for merging. Any advice on a desktop to suit my needs would be gratefully received.

Dont fucking encourage the bastard!

We cant contain him as it is!

"Contain".. can be achieved by merging threads... hmm...

128Gb SSDs (Sandisk) down to £49.99 again:

http://www.ebuyer.com/387080-sandisk-128gb-ssd-sdssdp-128g-g25?utm_source=b2c_11-10-2012&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b2c_thursday

SATA III and everything.

Fuck that's tempting. Got a spare enclosure that could use that...

It certainly is!

I have the same one in my iMac and it runs like a dream...

http://www.capita.co.uk/about-us/pages/zurich.aspx

http://www.manx.net/

http://www.gov.im/

Windows Vista ie 9. the above sites opened fine yesterday from my laptop, but won't today. There was an auto update overnight. Do they work for anyone who cares to click them? They all work fine from the gas powered machine at work?

yes they do. win7 though

Thanks

Right. I've bought a LaCie 2big Network 2 from t'bay, does anyone know if 1tb WD Green drives are compatible with it?

Lacie are being dicks about it, wont give me a straight answer. WD Red drives will to work according to the internet; but i don't want to spend £140 to get new drives. I might just sell it, anyone interested? Its only 8 months old

http://www.radeonramdisk.com/

Created a 4gb virtual disc in memory, any good?

Lacie are being dicks about it, wont give me a straight answer. WD Red drives will to work according to the internet; but i don't want to spend £140 to get new drives. I might just sell it, anyone interested? Its only 8 months old

Should do as the connectors are the same. Lacie don't make drives.