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Nintendesert

Nintendesert

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Rookie! Totally wrong ratio, you need more hookers and less blow. Try 6-8 hookers and half a pound of blow.




As for myself, can you give me a price quote on a railgun capable of launching a small car about 15 miles? I have an idea for a can't miss new business.
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Did the '80s teach you nothing? You can never have too much blow!!
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

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Krynj said:
Why are you getting done there? Seasonal worker? Boring call center type stuff?
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Umm. Sales. I sell computer hardware. We have both an online NewEgg type site that I've linked too and retail store outlets that you can walk into to order and or pick up your orders. I work at one of these stores as a 'sales rep'. I custom assemble (custom order) computers for customers, sell laptops, and mostly sell parts.
 
dpodblood

dpodblood

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Locut0s said:
The tax you pay though depends on the province you are in. For example ordering from Saskatchewan online you avoid paying the Sask PST. But I don't think there is any benefit to you guys in ONT.
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Yes that's quite annoying. It used to be that I only had to pay 7% tax when I ordered from NCIX. Now I'm stuck paying 15%... The highest in the country... :(
 
JujuFish

JujuFish

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Locut0s said:
15TB, umm yeah that's a RAID array. You are booting directly to a 15TB RAID array? Is this RAID 5? Usually I'd recomend booting to a small fast OS drive, not directly to a 15TB array.
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He has a RAID array to store his PIN number which he uses at ATM machines.
 
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gophins72

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well, i am seeing the cheapest right now on 3tb to be ~$120 and the cheapest on 2tb to be ~ $80. of course, the $120 are a temporary deal, so.... :p
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

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gophins72 said:
well, i am seeing the cheapest right now on 3tb to be ~$120 and the cheapest on 2tb to be ~ $80. of course, the $120 are a temporary deal, so.... :p
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Are you talking just 7200rpm drives? Cause most of theones on the market are around 5900rpm and cheaper than that for 2TB. We have 2TB drives both Seagate and WD for around $64-69 most of the time, 5900rpm. And these are Canadian prices, you can usually do a hair better in the US.
 
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gophins72

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dont know, but the cost per gigabyte makes it negligible for me to pick something smaller if it is roughly the same for bigger, since generally bigger will mean faster transfer anyways regardless of spin rate, plus the size convenience (having a bunch of smaller hard drives is a pain compared to one big one).
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
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gophins72 said:
dont know, but the cost per gigabyte makes it negligible for me to pick something smaller if it is roughly the same for bigger, since generally bigger will mean faster transfer anyways regardless of spin rate, plus the size convenience (having a bunch of smaller hard drives is a pain compared to one big one).
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The bigger is faster really applies most to increased areal density. If they just add another platter to hit the larger size, access rates will not go up much. I also feel we are at the point now where RAID is almost a necessity. It was one thing to loose 120GB of data. To loose 2TB+ is really painful. I don't think I'll ever build another rig without data redundancy. Right now I have a 4TB RAID 1 array (2TB usable). Next time I upgrade I'll likely move to RAID 5.
 
busydude

busydude

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Locut0s said:
:( SSDs are awesome upgrades.
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I was absolutely annoyed when 25nm SSDs showed up, but the price was still up there. Anand was repeatedly saying that with 25nm SSDs you get better performance and double the capacity at the same price.. when compared to 32nm ones. A major disappointment..
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

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busydude said:
I was absolutely annoyed when 25nm SSDs showed up, but the price was still up there. Anand was repeatedly saying that with 25nm SSDs you get better performance and double the capacity at the same price.. when compared to 32nm ones. A major disappointment..
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Actually many of the 25nm SSDs of the same capacity as the 32nm ones are SLOWER not faster. But yes technically they allow for more storage and speed.
 
Red Squirrel

Red Squirrel

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Locut0s said:
The bigger is faster really applies most to increased areal density. If they just add another platter to hit the larger size, access rates will not go up much. I also feel we are at the point now where RAID is almost a necessity. It was one thing to loose 120GB of data. To loose 2TB+ is really painful. I don't think I'll ever build another rig without data redundancy. Right now I have a 4TB RAID 1 array (2TB usable). Next time I upgrade I'll likely move to RAID 5.
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Since the introduction of 1TB drives, I've always used raid, and lot of backups. I use individual 1TB drives as "tapes" for backup, and I have offsite backups as well to my online server, though those only cover the most critical data such as code as my internet upload sucks too much to do big backups. Takes about a day to upload 1GB. Raid 5 is nice because you can expand it on the fly without any downtime, if you use Linux MD raid. Though I think my next setup I will probably go raid 6.

For my OS I could see myself use a SSD as they have come to a point where they are affordable now, if mass storage is not what you need. But for data, always spindle. It's crazy how cheap they are... though you get what you pay for, today's spindle drives are much less reliable than they were 10 years ago.
 
Locut0s

Locut0s

Lifer
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Red Squirrel said:
Since the introduction of 1TB drives, I've always used raid, and lot of backups. I use individual 1TB drives as "tapes" for backup, and I have offsite backups as well to my online server, though those only cover the most critical data such as code as my internet upload sucks too much to do big backups. Takes about a day to upload 1GB. Raid 5 is nice because you can expand it on the fly without any downtime, if you use Linux MD raid. Though I think my next setup I will probably go raid 6.

For my OS I could see myself use a SSD as they have come to a point where they are affordable now, if mass storage is not what you need. But for data, always spindle. It's crazy how cheap they are... though you get what you pay for, today's spindle drives are much less reliable than they were 10 years ago.
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Yet another reason for RAID. The on the fly expandability + increased storage vs RAID 1 is why I want to move to RAID 5. Won't be long now till I fill up my 2TB array. Likely will have to move to something else before too long. I haven't taken a look at other possible RAID levels yet.
 
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