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I'll keep my wife for another week...

Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-09 8:25 PM
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Just when I was ready to get rid of her, she goes out and buys this for me...got it on sale in the clearance bin at Staples for only $49. That is cheaper than my mechanical 320gb hard drive....guess the prices are finally dropping...



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Mobi Page Icon Posted 2015-10-11 1:58 AM
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She's a keeper! My wife wouldn't know what that was (but she's a keeper too)....
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-11 2:04 PM
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Some men have wives who buy them toys....some men have wives who they play with like toys....mine is the former.

Lucky men have wives who are both!
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2015-10-13 5:39 PM
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I did this for someone earlier today as it happens ~cost per GB for a NAS quote
0.5TB SSD £0.36
1TB Rotational £0.08
1TB SSD £0.28
2TB Rotational £0.06
2TB SSD £0.28
3TB Rotational £0.05
4TB Rotational £0.04
6TB Rotational £0.04
8TB Rotational £0.05

Once you SSD, you don't go back.
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-13 6:56 PM
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I guess the wife did okay then...

1GB cost for me was .21 cents USD or £0.14 for my .25TB SSD.

Still not as cheap as a mechanical hard drive...but give it time and I imagine one day it will be cheaper and we will see them draw closer to one another...
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Alt Bass Page Icon Posted 2015-10-14 4:49 PM
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HDDs are evolving too.

Unless some wonderful type of flash is invented things won't change. SSD will continue to cost more for another decade.
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stingraze Page Icon Posted 2015-10-16 1:05 AM
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I have a database / web server with 512GB of SSD using TOSHIBA memory cells.

It was a lot more expensive than this price point now here in Japan:

20,999 JPY or about 176 USD for a Transcend 512GB 2.5inch SSD.

34cents / GB here in Japan.






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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2015-10-16 8:30 AM
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Proof that everything is more expensive in the UK
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-16 12:58 PM
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Of course it is, you have to pay for your royalty....
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2015-10-17 10:02 AM
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... and everyone else's in the EU
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-17 2:23 PM
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What, you can't handle a few Syrian refugees? Come over here...we have the entire Central and South American influx to deal with, not counting Mexico...
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2015-10-17 3:59 PM
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What have Syrian refugees got to do with us paying for everyone else's monarchy?
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Rich Hawley Page Icon Posted 2015-10-17 6:12 PM
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Oh, I forgot, you guys aren't part of the Euro are you...I mean the financial part wherein all the nations of the European Commonwealth are helping to subsidize the financial burden for the thousands and thousands of refugees moving northward from the middle east...

I understand that recently some billions of Euros were sent to Italy to help pay for the cost of immigration and resettlement....

I misread what you were speaking about...but elaborate, who is 'everyone else's monarchy?'

Oh, by the way...from power off to desktop Windows 10 with old SATA had drive...37 seconds on this old Gateway E4610S with dual core Intel.

With the new SSD, time dropped to 23 seconds, no other changes.
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C:Amie Page Icon Posted 2015-10-17 9:01 PM
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Meh, boot times. The nadir of pointless statistics.

What I/O can you get off of it? It is SATA 1 or SATA 2? If we assume the SSD is SATA III, adding another 10 seconds to the boot by introducing a SATA III controller OptionROM (even on a legacy 1.0 16x bus) will be a far bigger aid than reducing boot by 14 seconds. On board disk controllers degrade with time in my experience, so throwing a new chip in there will be a help.

Can you find out what the ACTUAL motherboard used by Gateway was? If you can find the highest CPU supported by the firmware and IF that lets you cross an Intel Tick release i.e. a die shrink (e.g. 65mn to 45mn), you'll get a performance boost and a power saving.

Then there's abandoning the on board VGA for a PCIe one, that's always a help (even on a legacy 1.0 16x bus)

RAM is arguable, but if you upgrade it you want tighter timings and good firmware

If you really want to save some £$€¥ take the undoubtedly awful Gateway PSU out of it and throw in an 80+ new one. It'll be quiet and save on the power bill.
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