I will upgrade when a hard drive is as fast as RAM.

[tweakboy]

This SSD stuff and RAID and what not is no good. Bottom line your system is still working off a HD be it SSD or HD.

The day hard drive is as fast as RAM and this bottleneck gets solved is when I upgrade. Be it 2020 lol,

I mean big deal 150mbps or 250mbps anyone upgrading to a SSD of course get fast speeds but Im talking the kind where you dont have to wait even a split second cuz the hard drive is as fast as your RAM. This will be the day bottleneck doesn't exist anymore IMO. Thank you and may this oil war end and bring all our troops home.

 

[ZipSpeed]

Alrighty then.

 

[CurseTheSky]

In that logic, you'd might as well hold off until RAM (and thus hard drives) are as fast as cache. I mean, who wants to wait for your CPU to swap out instructions and other information with slow, slow, slow RAM when it could all just be sitting there in lightning-fast cache?!

SSDs are a huge improvement over HDDs, and we'll continue to see great performance and longevity improvements made to SSDs over the next several years. By the time we hit 2020, SSDs (or whatever storage medium ends up being the best) may be as fast as RAM is today, but then again, how fast will RAM be then?

 

[speedy2]

Better yet, just go back to a typewriter and wait until the whole PC is 100 times as fast as it is now. PC's how do they work. lolz

 

[FishAk]

Lucky for you, you can buy an SSD today! That's right, by definition, an SSD IS RAM.

Now if your talking about the speed your system's main memory, you need to pick a speed point you'll buy an SSD at. Because as SSD's get faster, so will your system memory.

 

[Voo]

Lucky for you, you can buy an SSD today! That's right, by definition, an SSD IS RAM.

Yep, that's the fun part

So you'll update as soon as HDDs are as fast as some ancient USB sticks? Great, that was around 10years ago.

 

[tcsenter]

Cool story bro!

 

[jjmIII]

GB

 

[lord_emperor]

OK:

 

[VirtualLarry]

There was some talk of RAM that was persistant, so that it could store data when the power was off. Throw in gobs of that stuff, and you would be set. Does anyone remember the name of that stuff? F-RAM or M-RAM or something?

 

[Edrick]

In that logic, you'd might as well hold off until RAM (and thus hard drives) are as fast as cache. I mean, who wants to wait for your CPU to swap out instructions and other information with slow, slow, slow RAM when it could all just be sitting there in lightning-fast cache?!

+1

 

[Edrick]

Problem Solved.

http://www.ddrdrive.com/

 

[Capt Caveman]

OP - please stop posting kthx

 

[Voo]

There was some talk of RAM that was persistant, so that it could store data when the power was off.

Do you mean persistent DDR or something? Because "RAM" itself only means random access memory, i.e. access of a random address has to be a constant, therefore every USB stick is also some kind of RAM.

The only thing that comes to my mind you probably meant would be FRAM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferroelectric_RAM). The main reason why it isn't more widespread seems to be cost - but since you wouldn't have to recharge it, it could become interesting for smartphones or notebooks where low power is important?

 

[ch33zw1z]

You'll upgrade when those drives you have now die and you're forced to..lol

 

[woolfe9999]

In that logic, you'd might as well hold off until RAM (and thus hard drives) are as fast as cache. I mean, who wants to wait for your CPU to swap out instructions and other information with slow, slow, slow RAM when it could all just be sitting there in lightning-fast cache?!

Yup, personally I will continue to use an abacus until I can have a quantum processer on my desktop. In fact, it needs to be so fast that the "next" operation literally takes place before the "current" operation, thus setting up a temporal paradox which in turn will warp the space time continuum beyond recognition.

- wolf

 

[chedrz]

I'm pretty sure the OP actually means he'll upgrade when his 8800GT is no longer the best card EVAR and no longer runs all his games at 100 billion fps and hard drives are faster than human thoughts. Every other thing I've read from him says his system is the 1337zors, so...

 

[Bl0cks]

thank you and may this oil war end and bring all our troops home.

america!

 

[CurseTheSky]

Yup, personally I will continue to use an abacus until I can have a quantum processer on my desktop. In fact, it needs to be so fast that the "next" operation literally takes place before the "current" operation, thus setting up a temporal paradox which in turn will warp the space time continuum beyond recognition.

- wolf

Well, you will need to hook it up with a BUNCH of these cables, so be ready to shell out some big bucks for that rig (read the reviews) - http://www.amazon.com/Denon-AKDL1-De.../dp/B000I1X6PM.

 

[OCGuy]

no

 

[tweakboy]

Thanks chedrz my brother.

 

[tweakboy]

With speeds of up to 400mbps.

This sounds juicy to me, but too bad it doesn't exist. The SSD virgins can back off and wait until size matters comes into play and they build bigger sized SSD with more speed. thank you and gb

 

[jjmIII]

GB

 

[Soundmanred]

GB

It's against forum rules to make fun of him due to his metal health issues. Just a word of advice.

 

[postmortemIA]

I sure hope OP meant 400MB/s, not 400mbps which is seq. read speed of 5400 rpm laptop drive