Is there really no Storage forum?

[raduga]

This is kind of a hugely important topic. Y'know... hard drives and stuff.

 

[pyonir]

I don't see why it just can't go in General Hardware...

 

[bendixG15]

How did we ever get along without one for all these years ??

 

[Steve]

We've already got forums for motherboards, CPUs, cases, PSUs, video cards, and RAM. If we have a forum for every PC component, what goes in General Hardware?

 

[Skipholiday]

Originally posted by: Steve
We've already got forums for motherboards, CPUs, cases, PSUs, video cards, and RAM. If we have a forum for every PC component, what goes in General Hardware?

Screws?

 

[raduga]

Originally posted by: Steve
If we have a forum for every PC component, what goes in General Hardware?

This is really the right question, IMHO. It makes more sense to me to have a specific forum for storage issues.

Sure, storage is usually seen as the most boring component of all, but there's still a lot to discuss. Furthermore there are going to be a lot of interesting new technologies (notably SSD) hitting the consumer market in the next year or so. Just my $0.02.

 

[theprodigalrebel]

If we do create another forum, might as well call it the "Are Raptors really that much faster in real-world-use than 7.2k rpm drives?" forum

 

[Tegeril]

And the answer would be yes, and then we could close the forum.

 

[SomeJoe7777]

Storage is more than just a fast hard drive. There's many aspects to it, including partitioning schemes, RAID and its associated peculiarities, large-capacity (i.e. many TB) solutions, newer devices like SSDs, older but still necessary devices like optical drives, server-specific storage questions like SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, etc.

I would think with an issue that covers so much that a storage forum would be a good idea. Its a bit too broad of a subject to be thrown into General Hardware along with mice, keyboards, & power strips.

Perhaps the enthusiasts/gamers are more interested in CPUs & video cards, but some of the rest of us do different things with our computers. Many people are trying to set up home media servers now, and >2TB arrays is an important concept. It's a topic that belongs squarely in a dedicated storage forum.

 

[DerekWilson]

we are still looking at ways to better the experience in our technical forums.

we will look at this.

what do people think about combining all memory and storage into one forum? is that too broad?

 

[Jawo]

Originally posted by: DerekWilson
we are still looking at ways to better the experience in our technical forums.

we will look at this.

what do people think about combining all memory and storage into one forum? is that too broad?

That sounds like a good idea since its really all storage in the end.

 

[Fullmetal Chocobo]

Originally posted by: DerekWilson
we are still looking at ways to better the experience in our technical forums.

we will look at this.

what do people think about combining all memory and storage into one forum? is that too broad?

I think that works well, as having one just for system memory & NVRAM seems too specific.

 

[DerekWilson]

Originally posted by: Fullmetal Chocobo

Originally posted by: DerekWilson
we are still looking at ways to better the experience in our technical forums.

we will look at this.

what do people think about combining all memory and storage into one forum? is that too broad?

I think that works well, as having one just for system memory & NVRAM seems too specific.

we are gonna do this ... just a matter of time

 

[SickBeast]

FWIW I personally find that there is a general lack of storage reviews on the 'net.

The hard drive is really the main system bottleneck in many ways; it would be nice to learn more about the various flavours.

I also think it would be interesting to test full hard drives. It seems that they're always tested on a clean Windows install with only the benchmark tools. Why not fill the drive up with .ISO files and whatnot *before* loading up the games and such that you're going to benchmark? It would probably give people more of a 'real world' performance generalization.

 

[LeadMagnet]

yes - if it geared towards networked storage and not just performance of sata drives and optical drives.

 

[hclarkjr]

looks like the mods listened again, check out the memory and storage forums now listed