Are you still on Windows XP? I was forced to upgrade because its HDD suicided hard overnight back in 10/11/2016. However, it was time to move on which was OK even though my desktop PCs are about a decade old.

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Yes for mass storage, nothing beats the capacity of a good old magnetic hard drive. But for anything else, HDD's are hard pressed to approach an SDD in anything but capacity.

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looks like 14 floppy drives + 1 hdd (for percussion?)

I swear they said 4TB HDD & a 480GB SSD for games. The case they are using is the Digital Storm Aventum II Pro. http://www.digitalstormonline.com/aventum-ii.asp?workstation=1
Except for adding multiple video cards, you can almost build the PC in the vid on that site.

>> ^moodonia:

I bought a SATA3 SSD recently for my OS/programs/couple of games and its well worth it. Power on to usable desktop in Windows 7 in less than 10 seconds. Still keep a RAID array of conventional disks for mass storage.
It really is a good upgrade for old computers, anything with a SATA port should show a big improvement over a HDD even if the SATA controller is only SATA1. In my experience they are backward compatible, they should just run at the lower speed of the controller .
Nice to see OAG making some squids out of her internet fame, she seems to be making the most of it, good for her.
Youre experience may vary, check with your PC manufacturer


Try RAIDing a bunch of SSDs. The time dilation effects are a bit nauseating though.

I bought a SATA3 SSD recently for my OS/programs/couple of games and its well worth it. Power on to usable desktop in Windows 7 in less than 10 seconds. Still keep a RAID array of conventional disks for mass storage.

It really is a good upgrade for old computers, anything with a SATA port should show a big improvement over a HDD even if the SATA controller is only SATA1. In my experience they are backward compatible, they should just run at the lower speed of the controller*.

Nice to see OAG making some squids out of her internet fame, she seems to be making the most of it, good for her.

*Youre experience may vary, check with your PC manufacturer

I have this movie on my HDD just so i can watch the opening scene in full blast, the audio is incredible, the song, the car and the athmosphere... Easily one of alltime top10 opening scenes.

I just manually back up my data weekly. Once in a while, I back up my whole HDD with Norton Ghost (not in Windows). I use multiple sources too including offline. If L.A. gets blown up, oh well.

I wonder what VS does with its backups.

My PC runs on two HDD, one for Windows and over crucial shit, and then a much larger drive for the peripheral programs, games, music, video etc etc. Anyway, so I recently overwrote the entirety of my 2nd HDD Program Files folder, and man did I wish I had a backup. Fortunately most programs are easy to redownload and I managed to recover most of the data thats not so easy to replace.

I think for me the stuff I can't afford to lose is relatively small in size and isn't modified much, so I just save it all in loads of different places, on USB sticks, on a different HDD etc. Losing anything else is really just an inconvenience.

I am waiting for the reliabilities, prices, and disk sizes to match old HDDs.

>> ^Deano:

Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA.
http://www.hyperossystems.co.uk/07042003/hardware.htm
I already use their software to provide multiple windows systems which works very well but the disk bottleneck is the main issue on any pc you use.


>> ^14703:

Here is the actual manufacturer of those hyperos cards. Acard's ANS-9010 Ram Drive. If you are running a server and want even more performance, I like this card that plugs into a pci express slot Fusion-io's iodrive
Of course the iodrive costs a couple thousand for a some 80GB drive, but it's spec'd to be equivalent in transfer, write and seek time to a bunch of raid SSD's. These are just NAND clusters that beat the speed by acting like a large RAID of small flash memory. It uses software/hardware to overcome some limitation of the number of read/write of NAND and memory keeping the data safe. As it ages, it gets less storage GBs but stay just as fast. It utilizes the bandwidth of the pci-e (x4 iirc).
The Acard ans-9010 ram drive (aka hyperos card) also do raid on a single card which does help a bit when trying to saturate some SATA bandwidth. Check out this comparison for the Acard at the tech report. The input/output benchmarks put a bunch of the other disks down. But, on efficiency, X-25m SSD's kicked the acard's ass because it doesn't use RAM meaning lower consumption/heat and does webserver expectionally well.
Intel X-25m SSD's in raid would prove to be a good combination that won't break the bank as much the more exotic options. After getting a bit intoxicated with the idea of the iodrive and acard ans-9010, it turns out what I want isn't exactly what I need, at least not at that price and definately not for my gaming. All SSDs have the advantage of seek times. The only disadvantage I see with X-25m's, as with other similar flash SSDs are the write times. Reads are hardly ever the problem especially with these built for performance disks.
The guy who does budget will kill you after seeing how much your 6TB Samsung SSD Awesomeness cost to just play with user-end desktop apps. Save the big bucks for the servers that bring in the moolah and server the clients, and even then we can't all prematurely splurge on sexy new toys.
<div><div style="margin: 10px; overflow: auto; width: 80%; float: left; position: relative;" class="convoPiece"> Deano said:<img style="margin: 4px 10px 10px; float: left; width: 40px;" src="http://static1.videosift.com/avatars/d/Deano-s.jpg" onerror="ph(this)"><div style="position: absolute; margin-left: 52px; padding-top: 1px; font-size: 10px;" class="commentarrow">◄</div><div style="padding: 8px; margin-left: 60px; margin-top: 2px; min-height: 30px;" class="nestedComment box">Here's an alternative I'm going to buy for around £300 all in that provides a solid state DDR drive that plugs in via SATA. </div></div></div>

let me see if i understand you both.

Deano, this device is just a device that holds ram, but instead of using it for temporary stoarge, allows for primary storage instead. enough to run the OS and maybe more if you have enough ram on you.

14703, It looks like what you are saying is this device is just a huge chunk of Ram for in between HDD and RAM. except it would not be able to move any files???