December 15, 201410 yr I like revolvers as well. I miss my old Rossi .357 Mag. I have actuallty been reviewing a few revolvers since yesterday.Picked my son up a ruger 357 single action revolver for Christmas. Nice gun and as close as I could find to a true cowboy gun. Does it blast .38 specials?
December 15, 201410 yr I like revolvers as well. I miss my old Rossi .357 Mag. I have actuallty been reviewing a few revolvers since yesterday.Picked my son up a ruger 357 single action revolver for Christmas. Nice gun and as close as I could find to a true cowboy gun. Does it blast .38 specials? Yes.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340 The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7. Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340 The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7. Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340 The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7. Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups. Yes, please back up your information that is important (at the least). Setup a RAID of some sort. Or (if it doesn't include videos) setup up Dropbox/ Google Drive/ Box for cloud storage. (PS let me know if you do Dropbox because I am greedy and would love more free storage). Sorry you lost your data. Last time I completely organized all my music, I accidentally tripped over the external HDD is was stored on and lost it all. 3 years later I haven't attempted the task again. PS- I wish I could provide some anecdotal evidence about SSD life, but mine got stolen months after I bought it.
December 15, 201410 yr Back to the calibre talk, I have really been thinking that if I decide to go with some super XL magnum I might do a .375 Cheytac..338Lapua is kind of go to, or 50bmg, but the .375 is hot fire. It's also a fraction of the cost to load from the .408 or .416.I'm on a .338 Lapua of the 3. But the 50BMG strikes me as useless for a civilian round. The .375 is cool, but I don't need to be shooting over a mile. The .338 can squat at a mile, and is much more affordable to shoot, overall... plus load data is readily available. Also, and most importantly for me, it is the most comfortable to shoot. I don't need a lot of kick to love the gun... I do need a lot of accuracy. I contemplated a .308 but feel the 6.5-284 just seems like a more practical round.One of my co-workers loves recoil, but he is an awful shot. He has a .300 ultra win mag, and a .50 Beowulf, and they have created a recoil flinch he can't get rid of. I purposely loaded 3 shots instead of 4 in my 22-250 because he was pulling it low and left. Even with the 11.5 pound beast (yes, it is a very heavy small caliber rifle) and a feather recoil he was flinching.Just something for you to think about.I just want to shoot comfortably. It assures a better shot.We think almost exactly the same. The 50 is the least interesting. The 338lap and the 375 come close to the same to shoot, or was last time I looked. Lap brass was near the price of gold!
December 15, 201410 yr Hard to go wrong with .300 Win Mag or .338 LapuaWinmag........ Yes..... But no.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340 The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7. Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups. Have you looked into sending the drive in somewhere? There's a good chance they can still get the data off.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340 The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7. Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable. PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me. Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function. Time for more backups. Yes, please back up your information that is important (at the least). Setup a RAID of some sort. Or (if it doesn't include videos) setup up Dropbox/ Google Drive/ Box for cloud storage. (PS let me know if you do Dropbox because I am greedy and would love more free storage). Sorry you lost your data. Last time I completely organized all my music, I accidentally tripped over the external HDD is was stored on and lost it all. 3 years later I haven't attempted the task again. PS- I wish I could provide some anecdotal evidence about SSD life, but mine got stolen months after I bought it. How much space do you need? I have a basic hosting account at Host Gator that costs like 10 bucks a month and it's "unlimited." So far I have 36gb on it and they haven't complained. Also have a VPS from TMZ hosting for $15 a month and it's 100GB, 2TB bandwidth. On the VPS I have plex running so I can play my music (or movies though I don't watch much) on my phone or any computer anywhere I go. Course you can pretty much do anything on a VPS.
December 15, 201410 yr The last week I started having a clunk from the rear of the Miata. Turns out one of the rear sway-bar links broke, nice... You break more shit on your shit. I could use you as a customer... that way I could retire by mid 2015! At least I crossed off all the engine related maintenance items
December 15, 201410 yr Back to the calibre talk, I have really been thinking that if I decide to go with some super XL magnum I might do a .375 Cheytac..338Lapua is kind of go to, or 50bmg, but the .375 is hot fire. It's also a fraction of the cost to load from the .408 or .416.I'm on a .338 Lapua of the 3. But the 50BMG strikes me as useless for a civilian round. The .375 is cool, but I don't need to be shooting over a mile. The .338 can squat at a mile, and is much more affordable to shoot, overall... plus load data is readily available. Also, and most importantly for me, it is the most comfortable to shoot. I don't need a lot of kick to love the gun... I do need a lot of accuracy. I contemplated a .308 but feel the 6.5-284 just seems like a more practical round.One of my co-workers loves recoil, but he is an awful shot. He has a .300 ultra win mag, and a .50 Beowulf, and they have created a recoil flinch he can't get rid of. I purposely loaded 3 shots instead of 4 in my 22-250 because he was pulling it low and left. Even with the 11.5 pound beast (yes, it is a very heavy small caliber rifle) and a feather recoil he was flinching.Just something for you to think about.I just want to shoot comfortably. It assures a better shot.We think almost exactly the same. The 50 is the least interesting. The 338lap and the 375 come close to the same to shoot, or was last time I looked. Lap brass was near the price of gold! Lap brass is very high, almost 2.5X as much as Winchester for the 22-250. But it comes with drilled, not punched flash holes, it is annealed, and it generally comes sorted, as most boxes of 100 should be within .05 gr.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7.Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable.PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me.Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function.Time for more backups.SSD has a much lower failure rate than HDD in consumer products. Like crazy less. Order of magnitude maybe. This is taken up in fall related deaths, and climate changes in laptops. In enterprise servers that changes.Even so, it's no more than 1% or so in the applications I have access to. That's mostly university and small server data. SSD also makes up for the cost difference in power savings and cooler running.The most common failures are related to firmware death, or the SSD being old. If you have a 5 year old drive of any kind you are kind of on borrowed time already. In every system we have built with an SSD I have never seen a complete fail. We have in HDD after months of operation though.Either way most failures on either side are firmware related. I just had to completely wipe my machine as Windows lost itself on a BIOS update. Stupid fucking error durring start up. Even then I was able to image the RAID and get all the data back. I had to move up to Windows 8.1 though. Lost the 7 CD key somewhere.....
December 15, 201410 yr Back to the calibre talk, I have really been thinking that if I decide to go with some super XL magnum I might do a .375 Cheytac..338Lapua is kind of go to, or 50bmg, but the .375 is hot fire. It's also a fraction of the cost to load from the .408 or .416.I'm on a .338 Lapua of the 3. But the 50BMG strikes me as useless for a civilian round. The .375 is cool, but I don't need to be shooting over a mile. The .338 can squat at a mile, and is much more affordable to shoot, overall... plus load data is readily available. Also, and most importantly for me, it is the most comfortable to shoot. I don't need a lot of kick to love the gun... I do need a lot of accuracy. I contemplated a .308 but feel the 6.5-284 just seems like a more practical round.One of my co-workers loves recoil, but he is an awful shot. He has a .300 ultra win mag, and a .50 Beowulf, and they have created a recoil flinch he can't get rid of. I purposely loaded 3 shots instead of 4 in my 22-250 because he was pulling it low and left. Even with the 11.5 pound beast (yes, it is a very heavy small caliber rifle) and a feather recoil he was flinching.Just something for you to think about.I just want to shoot comfortably. It assures a better shot.We think almost exactly the same. The 50 is the least interesting. The 338lap and the 375 come close to the same to shoot, or was last time I looked. Lap brass was near the price of gold!Lap brass is very high, almost 2.5X as much as Winchester for the 22-250. But it comes with drilled, not punched flash holes, it is annealed, and it generally comes sorted, as most boxes of 100 should be within .05 gr.I more meant the size than the brand. I feel good brass is worth it as you will get more loads from it and better repeated shots.The .338lapua size is crazy spendy because of the cool snipery factor. At least it was when I looked last time.
December 15, 201410 yr Someone tell me about this drive...http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178340The drive in one of my lappys took a shit. I'm not sold on a straight ssd, but I am willing to consider a hybrid. I know and trust Seagates, and will be replacing a WD drive. It is going into my i5 Asus lappy, and I will reinstall Win7.Why are you not sold on SSD? Is it because of Sean's bad luck? In theory the 8GB should be plenty for a OS and a couple programs, but I can say I have no idea of the Read/Write speeds of the hybrid SSD. In terms of a HDD a 5400rpm is a bit slow, but pleyny usable.PS - Just checked my HDD (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822148371) which ironically cost more for something that is half the drive (at best) as what you proposed and has worked just fine for me.Not just Sean's bad luck. I know of numerous premature failures. When you consider the ratio of SSDs to traditional platter HDDs out there, the percentage of failures is tremendous comparatively. I have far too much info on my drives that are terribly important to me to take that chance. Unfortunately the failed drive had a ton of info I cannot recover. Some of the information were case study information, captures, videos, and PP presentations that have cost me a lot of income... not only that, but the information lost are references I saved that I may never be able to recover. This drive is only the second failure I have ever had, and this one was from physical impact... not really a drive issue. I have no one to blame but myself for this loss. I also have some old externals that are 7 years old and still function.Time for more backups.SSD has a much lower failure rate than HDD in consumer products. Like crazy less. Order of magnitude maybe. This is taken up in fall related deaths, and climate changes in laptops. In enterprise servers that changes.Even so, it's no more than 1% or so in the applications I have access to. That's mostly university and small server data. SSD also makes up for the cost difference in power savings and cooler running.The most common failures are related to firmware death, or the SSD being old. If you have a 5 year old drive of any kind you are kind of on borrowed time already. In every system we have built with an SSD I have never seen a complete fail. We have in HDD after months of operation though.Either way most failures on either side are firmware related. I just had to completely wipe my machine as Windows lost itself on a BIOS update. Stupid fucking error durring start up. Even then I was able to image the RAID and get all the data back. I had to move up to Windows 8.1 though. Lost the 7 CD key somewhere..... Yeah, sorry, my mind is unchanged. As I said, I know of considerably more SSD failures than traditional platter drive failures recently. Not taking that chance.
December 15, 201410 yr No skin off my knee.It's just anecdotal that they have a higher failure rate. In practice it's less than 1% difference assuming good brands etc.Probably the same way I won't by a GM because way more of those end up broken down. Might not be accurate but it's my perception and thus my reality.
December 15, 201410 yr We've got hundreds if not thousands of SSD's floating around here, haven't heard IT guys bitch once about them dying.
December 15, 201410 yr For performance, heat, and power reasons most IT folks could care less if they failed 10% more often.And the most obvious for portable devices is they are so much more likely to survive a fall.
December 15, 201410 yr Any rig we build will be SSD based unless the client really wants to save some cash and have huge storage needs.Depending on the workload an SSD can save hours of downtime every year.I'm thinking about setting up a network storage solution but the cloud is pretty cool too.... I haven't decided.
December 15, 201410 yr I like revolvers as well. I miss my old Rossi .357 Mag. I have actuallty been reviewing a few revolvers since yesterday.Picked my son up a ruger 357 single action revolver for Christmas. Nice gun and as close as I could find to a true cowboy gun. Does it blast .38 specials? Yes. As Seth said yes. I bought 300 rounds of each for him, not including the one I have shot through it. Fun gun for sure.
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