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My plan to use a NAS device for back-ups has been put on hold for a while - much more dramatic price increases here in the UK, perhaps similar to the memory hikes when there was a shortage of those.
My plan to use a NAS device for back-ups has been put on hold for a while - much more dramatic price increases here in the UK, perhaps similar to the memory hikes when there was a shortage of those.
I have a 120gb SSD in my laptop as my main drive, and a 500gb 'regular' drive for storage. The speed difference between the 2 drives is noticeable. Maybe not as noticeable a difference as someone would have seen when switching from an old 56k modem connection over to cable or something equivalent, but you get my point. 120gb is more than large enough when all you have running is the OS.
I'm very satisfied with my SSD's (I own 2) and prefer them for my OC partition over the old HDD's. Sure, the price is still a bit high, but the performance increase was well worth the extra cash.
I agree, I would spend a bit more as well. But I still don't see how SSD's are going to replace HDD's because they still cost a hell of a lot more for what you'd get with a HDD at a much easer impact on your wallet. I'd take a 2TB HDD over a 120+GB SSD any day! I have an old 80GB WD drive that's going on 7 years old right now... I'd like to see how SSD's hold up before considering one (and I personally don't buy the hype of them being better overall because I've never had a problem with any of the several drives I still own).
Mine is just as fast after SP1, and that's with only 5400RPM. I can also transfer huge ISO's within only 1 minute. Not even exaggerating.
Ah! But you see, how are we going to sustain an entirely consumer-based economy? I think the current standing of that speaks loud and clear. If we don't bite the bullet on a few more dollars to pay our own citizens to produce products here at home (which might even lower the prices because they won't be having a HUGE gasoline price factored in to be sailed over here) then we're going to be truly screwed (and we already are, in case you didn't read the first half of the above).
BTW, out where I am - which is the low desert - we only get very mild monsoons and it never floods more than maybe 1". As for earthquakes? Tiny, insignificant jolts are all we get. Nothing that would be catastrophic and shut down production altogether. Not unless the commies and arabs decide to bomb the hell out of us (which I hear now is a credible threat, but not likely to happen).
As I've said above, I have a HDD going on 7 years - still operating just fine. I'd rather have longevity than performance because I don't make as much money, and HDD's are still (apart from currently and hopefully not permanently) the best bang for the buck. And you said it yourself, the performance isn't all that much greater... so for me, again, the price to performance ratio isn't really worth it. And right now, I don't trust them as much. Flash memory is fickle in my experience with the USB thumb 'drives'... I've had several corrupt on me over the years. So I'll be sticking with the old faithfuls, proven to be long-lasting and reliable (if you get a good one that wasn't improperly packaged and banged up during the S&H process).
For running my OS and launching applications, I would much rather have the SSD. You feel the way that you do because you haven't used an SSD in your system yet. I felt the same way and you can find posts from me years ago saying the same thing. I didn't buy my SSD because of previous problems with mechanical hard drives, I bought them for performance. I didn't buy into the hype either at first. But I finally bought one because the 80GB had dropped to less than $300 and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Without question, it was the most noticeable upgrade that I have done in years. I don't regret it at all.
No matter how you feel personally about the technology, the SSD's are faster and will make your machine faster. There are no iff's, ands or butts...these SSD's have random access times around 0.1ms...and can get to every single file anywhere on the file system this fast. That's quite a bit better than your mechanical hard drives which are in the ballpark of 12-15ms.
I came from a WD caviar Black 1TB. After my machine would post, from 'starting Windows', to the logon screen and to my desktop with icons took 38 seconds. Replacing that with my Intel X25-M G2 SSD, from 'starting Windows', to the logon screen and to my desktop with icons is 18 seconds.
i just ran malware bytes against my laptop. It's an 80GB Intel 320 series, and I've used about 62GB of space on it. I ran a quick scan, which scanned 237,384 things and it completed in 2:15.
If you are happy with your standard mechanical drives and don't need them faster, then by all means stick with them. If you are looking for a noticeable increase in performance, give an SSD a shot. I've never heard anybody say they regret buying their SSD...only that they regret not buying it sooner.
Today, the 2TB Samsung that was $79.99 is now $229.99
Newegg.com - SAMSUNG EcoGreen F4 HD204UI 2TB 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive
quote from The Register re Thailand
The country's worst floods in over half a century have so far claimed the lives of at least 317 people, affected more than nine million, and inundated 700,000 homes: 14,000 factories are under water and over 660,000 workers out of work.
Not true. Completely untrue. Most people go QUITE the other way. Businesses know that. Why don't you?The thing is that I am certain now that MOST Americans would gladly pay more for products if it meant that the fellow citizens were gainfully employed making a reasonable wage!
Um you might have been correct a decade ago BUT over the past years the general public in the USA has begun to realize that off shoring most manufacturing has severely damaged the middle class, and the ability for the economy to provide new jobs....
The get it cheap ride drew unsuspecting masses in..and for a while the con job worked but now the ugly reality and side effects are showing up in droves...a disappearing middle class, reduced tax base, also a lack of value added manufacturing has endangered our national security.
ALSO .....if Germany could keep manufacturing alive and robust and making a pretty penny on it there is NO reason the US couldn't do it.
Cheap isn't good if your neighbors are all out of a job or way under employed.
If a nation doesn't "make things" it ceases to become a viable society.