December 15, 201410 yr Need one day above 40 so I can wash the cars.It was in the high 50s yesterday, which allowed me to go bonkers in the garage.
December 15, 201410 yr Admin Need one day above 40 so I can wash the cars.It was in the high 50s yesterday, which allowed me to go bonkers in the garage. I was considering heating up a few pots of water again.
December 15, 201410 yr w00t!!! Go Bills. What a defensive stand. Holy shit.The Bills are my second favorite team. First lost, but this year that is expected. Super woot on Buff this week though. Of course, next week it will be someone other than the Bills since by default my second favorite team is whoever plays the Pack.
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. Every time I do anything important I backup. I use a program called Allways sync. Allows me to easily back up the same folders to multiple pc's and not have all go to either. I also sync with an external regularly. I've had 7 conventional drives fail and 3 SSD's. I've purchased probably 50 conventional and 5 SSD's. I'd agree with your odds of failure. I personally would do the hybrid though. Get an SSD, run it, rock it and BACK that shit up!
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..... What? You are reading Samsung releases, not real ones. Per GB stored SSD's have WAY higher failure rates.
December 15, 201410 yr Need one day above 40 so I can wash the cars.You can have our bullshit weather. Was 58 here yesterday. WTF? Raining like hell today and there is NO MORE WHITE in my yard. Fuck you weather.
December 15, 201410 yr The habits you will create by having an "operating system" only drive are also good. Allows you to run a fast small SSD for that and store data on a platter. I then use Macrium to back up my SSD install and have a second copy of the HDD and if either fails I can be back up in less than 20 minutes. Large data transfer can take longer of course, but that doesn't effect running.
December 15, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas?
December 15, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas? For looks of function?
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.....What? You are reading Samsung releases, not real ones. Per GB stored SSD's have WAY higher failure rates. Per GB sure. Per drive, nah.I'm at more than 15 SSD installed and no dead drives yet. I also haven't used a Sammy. Crucial mostly.
December 15, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas?Fast loader would be fun.Magpul mags.Magpul butstock.
December 15, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas? More ammo, training course, light.
December 16, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas? Best accessory for any gun is another gun. . . . . and a shit ton of ammunition.
December 16, 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.....What? You are reading Samsung releases, not real ones. Per GB stored SSD's have WAY higher failure rates.Per GB sure. Per drive, nah. When you consider that most SSDs are MUCH smaller than their platter counterparts your second statement doesn't hold water.
December 16, 201410 yr Gun nuts. I was thinking of getting an AR-15 accessory for my dad for Christmas, any ideas? I'm not really a fan of tactical weaponry, I am more of a utilitarian traditionalist, so I have nothing worthwhile to interject here. I just didn't want you to think I was ignoring you. But how about a grenade launcher!
December 16, 201410 yr Nightforce recently released a scope that fits my needs and is just a bit over what I want to spend, but I can justify it. http://nightforceoptics.com/shv-5-20x56/ Looking at the 5-20X56 with the MOAR reticle. I found it for $1177. Honestly, to get into Nightforce for that cost I'm on it. The reviews are stellar.
December 16, 201410 yr I couldn't probably hit the broad side of a barn these days Half the time I find it hard to hit the broad side of a barn with a pickup truck.
December 16, 201410 yr I couldn't probably hit the broad side of a barn these days Half the time I find it hard to hit the broad side of a barn with a pickup truck. I agree..lol Now days I'm to drunk to start the pickup!!!
December 16, 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.....What? You are reading Samsung releases, not real ones. Per GB stored SSD's have WAY higher failure rates.Per GB sure. Per drive, nah.When you consider that most SSDs are MUCH smaller than their platter counterparts your second statement doesn't hold water.Per capita perhaps a better wording? Seriously, they are 1% away from the same likely hood of drives failing.In the big servers at least. In laptop and most other situations they fail way way way less. Vibration doesn't do much to them. Platters are fucked when they vibrate too much too long.They are both affected less by heat and create less heat.
December 16, 201410 yr http://www.computerworld.com/article/2484998/solid-state-drives/ssds-do-die--as-linus-torvalds-just-discovered.htmlSSD AT 1.5% failure vs 5% for HHD.Concludes with the statement SSD is still much more reliable.
December 16, 201410 yr I'm running OCZ SSD and they had a horrible run at one point.The lowest fail rate storage period out there are the Intel SSDs from what I can see. They have some power cycling protection that helps stop the data loss that can happen when read write is going on durring a power down.
December 16, 201410 yr never had a hdd or ssd fail on me yet. running two intel ssd since sept 09, no problems. also have a pair of WD blacks in raid 1. I'm hoping my laptop hdd fails at some point so i have a reason to stick a ssd in it.
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