The Official Computer Tech Support Thread

Trollheart · 07-12-2018, 05:03 PM

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Originally Posted by [MERIT]

There is no category in which HDD beats SSD, except for price.

Ridiculous. What's the biggest SSD now? 250 gig? Meanwhile HDDs are up to 8, sometimes 12 TB! You fail.

Or, you know, what Eric said.

~~MicShazam~~ · 07-12-2018, 05:07 PM

It very much depends on priorities. For gaming, software development* and various other things, an SSD can be amazing. It's not going to buy you much of an advantage if you're just going to read things, watch Netflix and listen to music, so it's all about what one needs to do with it.

*Loading a Unity project on a standard HDD takes forever, for example, but this is of course not exactly something that concerns your average computer user.

~~[MERIT]~~ · 07-12-2018, 06:17 PM

I wholly misspoke. I'm under the influence of a controlled substance. Thank you all for the corrections

What I MEANT TO SAY was that a SSD has a much faster write speed, isn't affected by magnets and has no moving parts, making it ideal for most solutions, albeit expensive compared to traditional HDD's.

debaserr · 07-12-2018, 07:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

Ridiculous. What's the biggest SSD now? 250 gig? Meanwhile HDDs are up to 8, sometimes 12 TB! You fail.

Or, you know, what Eric said.

SSD's actually go up to 2TB! Around $500 for that.

Trollheart · 07-12-2018, 07:36 PM

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Originally Posted by eric generic

SSD's actually go up to 2TB! Around $500 for that.

Didn't know that. I assumed they were small but fast. Mind you, a 4 tb HDD will set you back a mere 100 Euro or so, so still the HDD option for me with regard to storage.

DwnWthVwls · 07-14-2018, 09:49 AM

Get this to store your MB posts.. It holds 20TB

DwnWthVwls · 07-14-2018, 09:50 AM

Also, for someone like you I'd spend the money on the extra storage instead of the speed. I don't see you taking advantage of the SSD.

The Batlord · 07-14-2018, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Get this to store your MB posts.. It holds 20TB

I'll take two.

Trollheart · 07-14-2018, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by DwnWthVwls

Also, for someone like you I'd spend the money on the extra storage instead of the speed. I don't see you taking advantage of the SSD.

You're right of course. No matter how much storage I get it will never be enough, and speed for me will always end up being a secondary priority.

Stephen · 09-26-2018, 09:19 AM

Under my DNS Servers in OSX I Have one listed that looks like hexadecimal separated by colons with the first set separated by two colons. Is this a valid format for a DNS server?

ie.

nnnn::nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn

07-12-2018, 05:07 PM	#1982 (permalink)
~~MicShazam~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Aug 2015 Location: Aalborg Posts: 7,634	It very much depends on priorities. For gaming, software development* and various other things, an SSD can be amazing. It's not going to buy you much of an advantage if you're just going to read things, watch Netflix and listen to music, so it's all about what one needs to do with it. Loading a Unity project on a standard HDD takes forever, for example, but this is of course not exactly something that concerns your average computer user. Last edited by MicShazam; 07-12-2018 at 06:20 PM.*

07-12-2018, 06:17 PM	#1983 (permalink)
~~[MERIT]~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Missouri, USA Posts: 4,823	I wholly misspoke. I'm under the influence of a controlled substance. Thank you all for the corrections What I MEANT TO SAY was that a SSD has a much faster write speed, isn't affected by magnets and has no moving parts, making it ideal for most solutions, albeit expensive compared to traditional HDD's.

09-26-2018, 09:19 AM	#1990 (permalink)
Stephen I sleep in your hat Join Date: Mar 2011 Location: Melbourne, Vic. Aus. Posts: 1,850	Under my DNS Servers in OSX I Have one listed that looks like hexadecimal separated by colons with the first set separated by two colons. Is this a valid format for a DNS server? ie. nnnn::nnnn:nnnn:nnnn:nnnn