My main complaint about Solid State hard drives. - GoFuckYourself.com

baddog · 10-08-2008, 08:25 AM

It is so quiet and cool, that I can't tell if it is still on or not if I can't see the monitor.

This thing has been on for five days straight and it feels as cool as it did when I took it out of the box.

The loudest noise it makes is when I am tapping the keys.

rowan · 10-08-2008, 08:30 AM

I'll go SSD eventually but I think I'd miss the sound of the hard drive seeking... it's a good indicator that the computer is doing something useful.

baddog · 10-08-2008, 08:33 AM

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Originally Posted by rowan

I'll go SSD eventually but I think I'd miss the sound of the hard drive seeking... it's a good indicator that the computer is doing something useful.

That's what I mean. If GFY lags I have no idea if it is me or them. It does everything so quickly that I have made a game out of seeing how high I can get the CPU usage percentage. I have seen it go as high as 34%, but that was less than a second. 4% is about standard.

BV · 10-08-2008, 08:37 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

That's what I mean. If GFY lags I have no idea if it is me or them. It does everything so quickly that I have made a game out of seeing how high I can get the CPU usage percentage. I have seen it go as high as 34%, but that was less than a second. 4% is about standard.

sigwhoreing and posting nostril hair doesn't require a lot of resources

woj · 10-08-2008, 09:28 AM

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Originally Posted by BV

sigwhoreing and posting nostril hair doesn't require a lot of resources

DirtyDanza · 10-08-2008, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by baddog

That's what I mean. If GFY lags I have no idea if it is me or them. It does everything so quickly that I have made a game out of seeing how high I can get the CPU usage percentage. I have seen it go as high as 34%, but that was less than a second. 4% is about standard.

you must be on a mac

xxweekxx · 10-08-2008, 11:58 AM

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sigwhoreing and posting nostril hair doesn't require a lot of resources

Klen · 10-08-2008, 12:00 PM

Well when hard disk is active i see that by blinking red light.Does that not happening on ssd?I mean,i dont hear my hard disk anyway unless is huge operation like copying or defragmanting in progress since fan of power supply is loudest.

GigoloShawn · 10-08-2008, 12:02 PM

The thing I don't like about SSD is the finite write cycles. Do you have any idea how many programs make a million swap files? They're up from the 10,000 days, but a good few month's worth of browsing could easily kill it if you don't use a RAMDisk along with your, uh, RAM Disk.

OG LennyT · 10-08-2008, 12:02 PM

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Originally Posted by BV

sigwhoreing and posting nostril hair doesn't require a lot of resources

baddog · 10-08-2008, 12:04 PM

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Originally Posted by DirtyDanza

you must be on a mac

No.

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Originally Posted by KlenTelaris

Well when hard disk is active i see that by blinking red light.Does that not happening on ssd?I mean,i dont hear my hard disk anyway unless is huge operation like copying or defragmanting in progress since fan of power supply is loudest.

You would need a stethoscope to hear the fans on this.

Dirty D · 10-08-2008, 12:15 PM

Whacha got?

tiger · 10-08-2008, 12:34 PM

Solid state drives have a ways to go before they are worth buying/using.

jalami · 10-08-2008, 12:41 PM

I guess someone's gonna have to come up with a program that emits a very low-level noise to the speakers when a solid state drive is being accessed.

DaddyHalbucks · 10-08-2008, 12:44 PM

Solid state is the future.

Fresh · 10-08-2008, 12:53 PM

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Originally Posted by baddog

It is so quiet and cool, that I can't tell if it is still on or not if I can't see the monitor.

This thing has been on for five days straight and it feels as cool as it did when I took it out of the box.

The loudest noise it makes is when I am tapping the keys.

Just like a solid state bowel movement, only time it makes noise is when it hits the water.

(or if its too solid, the cringing of teeth)

rowan · 10-08-2008, 01:06 PM

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Originally Posted by GigoloShawn

The thing I don't like about SSD is the finite write cycles. Do you have any idea how many programs make a million swap files? They're up from the 10,000 days, but a good few month's worth of browsing could easily kill it if you don't use a RAMDisk along with your, uh, RAM Disk.

Most flash these days uses a controller chip which implements wear levelling, so two writes to the same LBA/sector may actually be stored at different locations in the flash. It would take over a year of constant writing to the drive - every sector - at 100MB/sec to break the 100,000 individual sector count. Unless you're using trying capture 10 security cameras at 30fps 24/7 you'll probably never even get anywhere near the limit...

rowan · 10-08-2008, 01:13 PM

^ Forgot to add, the above calc was based on a 32GB drive. Higher capacities would have even longer theoretical wear life.

baddog · 10-08-2008, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Dirty D

Whacha got?

Dude, it's a Dell.

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Originally Posted by tiger

Solid state drives have a ways to go before they are worth buying/using.

Why is that?

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^ Forgot to add, the above calc was based on a 32GB drive. Higher capacities would have even longer theoretical wear life.

<<< 128GB

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rowan Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Australia Posts: 17,393	I'll go SSD eventually but I think I'd miss the sound of the hard drive seeking... it's a good indicator that the computer is doing something useful.

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Klen Industry Role: Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Little Vienna Posts: 32,235	Well when hard disk is active i see that by blinking red light.Does that not happening on ssd?I mean,i dont hear my hard disk anyway unless is huge operation like copying or defragmanting in progress since fan of power supply is loudest.

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