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Quote from: dogechode on May 09, 2014, 08:22:00 AM

I have had one or two HDDs that just died for no apparent reason over the years. They were not dropped, they were just sitting in my desktop and one day decided to retire without any physical incident.

They can die just from getting dust in them apparently (though it's quite hard for dust to actually get into them), not to mention anything with fragile moving parts will break eventually.

http://www.computertipsfor.me/what-causes-hard-drives-to-fail/

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I have had one or two HDDs that just died for no apparent reason over the years. They were not dropped, they were just sitting in my desktop and one day decided to retire without any physical incident.

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Quote from: Snorek on May 08, 2014, 02:38:12 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 08, 2014, 02:09:15 PM

Not if you drop it or a tiny bit of dust gets into it. I had a couple die and I know other people who have had a couple die on them too. It's surprising they last as long as they do given the fragile moving parts they have, but they're not indestructible and I'd make sure you have back-ups of your stuff before you tempt fate.

If you drop a hard drive no wonder

But I guess if you drop the SSD the same can happen.
As for doing back ups I don't have that important things on my PC (well maybe just one good porn movie Wink

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They don't have any moving parts though do they? I guess that makes them a lot more resistant to drops etc. You sometimes only have to knock it and it can fuck up the read/write needle (or whatever it is)/

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on prices, if you have a microcenter near you, sometimes they have very nice walk in deals. ssd's, processors ect.

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I'am still using HDD because it's way cheaper than SSD! so no good bye from me Tongue

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Quote from: hilariousandco on May 08, 2014, 02:09:15 PM

Not if you drop it or a tiny bit of dust gets into it. I had a couple die and I know other people who have had a couple die on them too. It's surprising they last as long as they do given the fragile moving parts they have, but they're not indestructible and I'd make sure you have back-ups of your stuff before you tempt fate.

If you drop a hard drive no wonder

But I guess if you drop the SSD the same can happen.
As for doing back ups I don't have that important things on my PC (well maybe just one good porn movie Wink

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Backing up a terabyte to optical media has got to take a lot of time and effort lol. I think I'll just stick to using a sane amount of storage space and only backing up the few critical items that I would be upset about losing. Oh, and using SSDs with no moving parts. That too.

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Quote from: Snorek on May 08, 2014, 02:04:26 PM

Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 01:47:54 PM

I'm glad I don't have those problems. Then what do you do, have an extra terabyte for backup? Or just cry for a week when the hdd dies and you lose everything lol?

Well in my case for the past ten years not a single hard drive has died. As for my friends they also never mentioned any major problems with HDD, so maybe it doesn't happen too often.

Not if you drop it or a tiny bit of dust gets into it. I had a couple die and I know other people who have had a couple die on them too. It's surprising they last as long as they do given the fragile moving parts they have, but they're not indestructible and I'd make sure you have back-ups of your stuff before you tempt fate.

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Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 01:47:54 PM

I'm glad I don't have those problems. Then what do you do, have an extra terabyte for backup? Or just cry for a week when the hdd dies and you lose everything lol?

Well in my case for the past ten years not a single hard drive has died. As for my friends they also never mentioned any major problems with HDD, so maybe it doesn't happen too often.

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Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 01:47:54 PM

I'm glad I don't have those problems. Then what do you do, have an extra terabyte for backup? Or just cry for a week when the hdd dies and you lose everything lol?

You should always have a back up of your stuff. Just don't wait to learn the hardway. I'd recommend buying a Blu-ray writer and backing up your stuff to Blu ray discs as well as an extra measure. That's what I do.

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I'm glad I don't have those problems. Then what do you do, have an extra terabyte for backup? Or just cry for a week when the hdd dies and you lose everything lol?

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Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 10:55:23 AM

All I'm saying is I think easily 90+% of computer users could get by just fine with 200-300 gigs of storage space if they weren't total digital packrats.

It's not uncommon for people to have a terrabyte or two of storage. People are obviously buying them for many reasons. People with large music collections will easily need more than 200-300, especially if you've ripped them in lossless format.

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All I'm saying is I think easily 90+% of computer users could get by just fine with 200-300 gigs of storage space if they weren't total digital packrats.

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Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 09:33:04 AM

Video editors sure but I doubt too many people posting here are legitimately video editors. Most are probably just storing 500 million pirated movies and games lol. And porn.

And what would be wrong with any of that? And video editing isn't the only use for massive amounts of storage.

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Video editors sure but I doubt too many people posting here are legitimately video editors. Most are probably just storing 500 million pirated movies and games lol. And porn.

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Quote from: dogechode on May 08, 2014, 09:04:19 AM

I guess it depends on your needs but I still fail to see why anyone "needs" more than a few hundred gb.

Anyone who owns more than 100 digital films or works with film editing.

Quote from: BigBoy89 on May 08, 2014, 09:11:59 AM

idk why i can't access that site
maybe my country IP was blocked Sad

Access Denied
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i'll try using VPS

The site isn't loading up for me either. I'm just getting a Server not found error.

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Quote from: pekv2 on May 08, 2014, 02:10:29 AM

Quote from: BigBoy89 on May 08, 2014, 01:59:55 AM

SSD for system / OS. i use sandisk xtreme 2 128 GB
HDD for multimedia data. use 4x 4TB WD Mybook
HDD still use for save data, especially bluray rip film

that's enough for me.
where can i buy ssd using BTC?

tigerdirect.com?

idk why i can't access that site
maybe my country IP was blocked Sad

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.tigerdirect.com/" on this server.

i'll try using VPS

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I guess it depends on your needs but I still fail to see why anyone "needs" more than a few hundred gb. Now you can purchase a few hundred GB of sdd storage for about the same price that a few hundred gb of HDD storage used to cost a few years ago.

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Quote from: Vod on May 03, 2014, 11:33:55 AM

Quote from: Singlebyte on May 03, 2014, 11:27:06 AM

Sandisk announces 4TB SSD, hopes for 8TB next year.

"We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," Manuel Martull, SanDisk's product & solutions marketing director, stated in an email reply to Computerworld.

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9248070/SanDisk_announces_4TB_SSD_hopes_for_8TB_next_year

SSD prices are still too high to abandon HDD.

True, I recently bought an SSD just for starting up my desktop quickly and some other applications. It's definitely way superior to HDD but yes, the prices are still a bit too high. Having said that though, computer technology evolves at such a rapid rate we will see HDDs being phased out completely probably within a decade.

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Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on May 07, 2014, 12:37:57 PM

Quote from: hilariousandco on May 07, 2014, 10:51:01 AM

Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on May 07, 2014, 10:21:15 AM

Even the crappiest HDD is fine (sequential reads) to playback 1080p video.

Get a SSD for OS, applications and other latency sensitive data and use a spinning disk for bulk media. Win-win. Even better since the spinning magnetic platters are so cheap get two and put them in RAID1 and forget about it.

But HDD break pretty easily or become inaccessible. I've never used any of these SSD before but they look like the way to go, but they wont be affordable for quite a few years I reckon.

Small ones are pretty cheap these days. NewEgg has 120GB for as cheap as $60 although I would spend a little more and get a better drive. Can't beat a Corsair M500 or Samsung 840 evo for ~$80 http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ssd-recommendation-benchmark,3269-2.html .

That is why I said using both is a compromise. SSD for OS, applications and data where random access matters (like the blockchain). A pair of cheap high capacity HDD in RAID 1 (for reliability) for storage of "stuff" (backups, videos, ISOs, etc). Now a laptop can be a tougher challenge as you often only have one drive bay but with 120GB SSD at under $100 I would still go that route and move backups and less frequently used data off the laptop.

They're alright for smaller sizes, but I need several TBs to store all my videos and music etc, so not exactly practical for me at the moment, but I agree with you on everything else. It's annoying having to have other drives just to have everything backed up, because I know how easily they break. I've had two die on me in the past, but my WD Elements drives have worked without a hitch for several years (I hope I haven't tempted fate there haha).

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