Correct.
I don't find that to be true here. the entire net is riddle with BS.....that's a given. Being keen, discerning when chasing data should always be our default mode.
Above was not a part of any post in any thread on that site.
I have to look at "available information" which includes the "dis" and "mis" kind as well as uninformed mistakes of judgment and analysis. It's part of the "field of information." Journalists "say" they follow the prescription to cross-check their facts with independent sources. Historians may also follow that idea. But look at it through the lens of AI.
AI is in some ways based on "predicate calculus" -- a mathematically rigorous system of using a set of axioms to make inferences. Inferences lead to more inferences. This also incorporates a notion of "state space search" or an inverted tree of possible outcomes if certain things are "TRUE" and other things are "FALSE."
So I look at forum exchanges as one source of problem-solving information, but with web-searches, this turns up two possibilities besides "SOLVED." First, people may be simply confused or mistaken. Second, the forum exchange may -- on the surface -- seem to address diagnostic indications of your problem, but further inspection shows a different context.
It's not too different from examining customer reviews. To get anything out of it at all, you need to understand "customers" [for being either stupid, naïve or knowledgeable], a little something of QC and statistical bias, and some other things. Sometimes customer reviews may "tell you something," other times -- not so much.
OF COURSE you want to look at white papers and other "more official" sources or more authoritative sources. But sometimes, adding some of the "garbage" to accumulated information may actually help. Just as long as you have a sense of subjective probability as to whether something is reliable or unreliable, informed or uninformed.
NOW ON THIS MATTER OF SSD BENCHMARKING. So?! You configure your SSD -- maybe clone your OS to it, make sure everything is tip-top and copacetic. You run some benchmarks. How many benchmarks need be run more than once -- leading to a conclusion that "everything is wonderful?"
I've run my CrystalDiskMark and my Samsung Magician. Looks good to me! TRIM is not only enabled, but working.
Nothing to be ashamed of, but I've been poking around these forums for more than 7 years. ALL of us LONGSTANDING MEMBERS . . . . are . . . "anal-retentive." Computer programmers are "anal-retentive." We're going to pick at details and minutiae until we're blue in the face!
