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I know i'm preaching, but you should upgrade your hard drive.

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Enough memory + big RAID for storage, SSD for fast boot without having to worry about RAID oproms and such. That is all.
 
Honestly, what are you guys storing on these things.

Porn only takes up so much. I can assume you have gig after gig of stuff you haven't consumed in years and never will again, like old crap movies, old crap video games, etc.
 
AViking said:
I barely noticed a difference switching to a SSD. It wasn't until I actually went back to a mechanical drive that I could spot what had changed. I got over it in about 5 minutes.

I really hope they're more impressive now. The only reason I'm getting one is because my Raptor is so old.
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Well you have a Raptor, the only mechanical hard drive worth a damn. Going from a Raptor to a low tier first generation SSD isn't going to be all that impressive.
 
Doppel said:
Honestly, what are you guys storing on these things.

Porn only takes up so much. I can assume you have gig after gig of stuff you haven't consumed in years and never will again, like old crap movies, old crap video games, etc.
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Digital hoarders that never clean their attic and throw shit away. I wager 90% of garbage people don't delete isn't even unique pesonal data, its stuff that can be replaced from one of 90 million other copies "in the cloud". Rule of thumb for me is that if I can download it again, delete it.

People that "need" 4TB hard drives are probably the same people who park outside and can't even open the doors to their 3 car garage...

Hard drives are only acceptable in large SANs where the performance is distributed and aggregated. Might as well be using VHS and 8 track for anything else.

21st century people... magnetic tracks and mechanical computers are 1950s "technology."
 
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I have had SSD for years. All my current computers have SSD except the HTPC because I don't really care if that one is fast.
 
exdeath said:
Digital hoarders that never clean their attic and throw shit away. I wager 90% of garbage people don't delete isn't even unique pesonal data, its stuff that can be replaced from one of 90 million other copies "in the cloud". Rule of thumb for me is that if I can download it again, delete it.

People that "need" 4TB hard drives are probably the same people who park outside and can't even open the doors to their 3 car garage...

Hard drives are only acceptable in large SANs where the performance is distributed and aggregated. Might as well be using VHS and 8 track for anything else.

21st century people... magnetic tracks and mechanical computers are 1950s "technology."
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I have some really old stuff. I keep it around because it's fun to look back on and since it's so old it really doesn't take up that much space. Some of it is really stupid shit that I might have found funny in 1995 but is totally idiotic today. It's nice to look back on to see how far we've come.

What's more interesting is that media files I have saved are of terrible quality by today's standards. Years and years ago I found a nice ripped copy of a bunch of cartoons I watched as a kid. You couldn't buy a DVD set or anything so it was someone who had copied them from old VHS tapes they had copied from TV. They looked fine back then. I wanted them so that I could show my future kids. Well obviously today it's far better to just go buy the DVD collections and throw these files out but I'm sure many don't and have old vcds and super low quality stuff hogging up all their space. On the flip side of that I threw out my original star wars VHS tapes when I bought a DVD player and wish I still had at least digital copies of them since Lucas changed a bunch of stuff in the newest versions.

For me the primary reason to have all this hard drive space is to store RAW and JPEG images plus some video. My D600 can fill up hard drives no problem. Figure you go out and take 32GB of pictures a week or every other week. You'll fill up over a TB per year and when you add in vacations you can easily fill up 1.5TB to 2TB. Especially if you take some video. I did 100GB of pictures on my last vacation. It's really important to sort through these pictures or you'll have way too much space requirements.
 
exdeath said:
Digital hoarders that never clean their attic and throw shit away. I wager 90% of garbage people don't delete isn't even unique pesonal data, its stuff that can be replaced from one of 90 million other copies "in the cloud". Rule of thumb for me is that if I can download it again, delete it.

People that "need" 4TB hard drives are probably the same people who park outside and can't even open the doors to their 3 car garage...

Hard drives are only acceptable in large SANs where the performance is distributed and aggregated. Might as well be using VHS and 8 track for anything else.

21st century people... magnetic tracks and mechanical computers are 1950s "technology."
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You can view it like this, because it works for you. We own countless movies that I store for use. True, some we haven't watched it years...but it's still there if we want to.

Now, I don't have 4TB of storage, about 1.5TB. When SSD's get to the price point where it's worth it to change, then ok...but until then, mechanical hard drives will still be worth it for home users looking to store data that does not require >100MB/s throughput.
 
Previous PC I used the SSD for OS and frequently used apps other than video encoding tools. (I want to make sure any temp files created during encoding are NOT on the SSD) 1 HDD for less used apps, videos, photos, & music, miscellaneous documents, separate HDD for Recorded TV (WMC super DVR)

New PC OS & all apps other than video encoding tools go on the SSD. Pool of 4x4TB HDDs for Recorded TV, Videos, photos, music, etc.
 
been there, done that, over the past 1.5 years. I have revived at least 7 older, supposedly non-useful systems for the family as well as 4 in my own household by adding SSDs and have NOT looked back since 😀
 
I think newegg had a 240 gig Samsung for about $159 for black Friday. Not sure on a model or anything or if that is even the right brand. On the other hand, I think you can get a WD Black 1gig drive for about $85 or so. Have not purchased one yet. They probably run faster then your video card or processor can handle.

I think you have to sign up for their newsletter.
 
Couldn't wait any longer when they hit my sweet spot of $80ish for 128GB. Fantastic set up, great simple upgrade should be as routine as adding RAM. I'm glad I didn't go through with the RAID-0 Raptor 150GBs I nearly dropped $400 on a few years ago when SSD's were barely being talked about.
 
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I barely noticed a difference switching to a Raptor. It wasn't until I actually went back to a 7200RPM drive that I could spot what had changed. I got over it in about 5 minutes.
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See what I did there? :colbert:

AViking said:
I barely noticed a difference switching to 7200RPM. It wasn't until I actually went back to a 5400RPM drive that I could spot what had changed. I got over it in about 5 minutes.
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We could play this game all day long.

It costs more per GB to get incrementally faster.
 
Zap said:
See what I did there? :colbert:

We could play this game all day long.

It costs more per GB to get incrementally faster.
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ohhh can i play

AViking said:
I barely noticed a difference switching to Different SSDs. It wasn't until I actually went back to synthetic benchmarks that I could spot what had changed. I got over it in about 5 minutes.
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Hence with modern SSD's as long as it aint OCZ, id say get whats the cheapest is per dollar / GB.



BTW ZAP... ur the guy responsible for me migrating to SSD's.
I havent forgotten about that.. and now im close to 2TB arena in pure SSD for my main system.
 
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ahenkel said:
Preach. Had to fix grandma's computer I could make coffee drink it and piss it out in the time her computer rebooted, or anything.However putting in an SSD means she would fill that drive by the time I walked out the door.
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That's what makes the new HYBRID drives so nice! Modern mechanical speeds, SSD speed for the most-used apps and Windows itself - all fully automatic.
 
RAM drive FTW! LOL!

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I have a couple Crucial SSDs in my desktop for my OS, programs, and games. Still have a couple mechanical drives for bulk storage (pictures, music, documents, etc) and data backups. Anything important I have on both drives. The one mechanical drive stores disc images of almost all my software just for convenience sake. If the drive dies and I lose that, no biggie, I'll just dig out the discs again.

My laptop came with a 500GB drive, I traded it for a 250GB Corsair SSD as I couldn't take it anymore. Now it boots in 10 seconds 😀
 
ahenkel said:
Preach. Had to fix grandma's computer I could make coffee drink it and piss it out in the time her computer rebooted, or anything.However putting in an SSD means she would fill that drive by the time I walked out the door.
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Grandma, I fixed your computer. Its 100x faster now!

Wow, thanks ahenkel! So I can add even MORE toolbars now?
 
AViking said:
I used to upgrade very often. I would simply wait for hard drives with twice the capacity to cost what my old one did. The dollar amount I picked was $130 and that worked out quite nicely. 40GB to 80GB and so on. Then there was a massive drop in prices and I picked up a bunch of 2TB drives for $79.

The problem now is that a couple years later those same 2TB drives still cost more than what I bought them at. 4TB drives are still not at the $130 range if I wanted to revert to that level. Prices have simply been inflated and stuck there. What is the point of buying a $180 4TB drive when I am fine with the space I have and it cost me less?
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I'm in the same boat. Used to upgrade fairly regularly. Haven't bought new storage in awhile, would like to upgrade to 2 4TB drives instead of a large pool of everything from 500gb - 2TB, but the storage prices just haven't come down in awhile, and I'm not all that close to my capacity limit. Getting there, but not $400 getting there.
 
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