1. MS_User

    MS_User MDL Guru

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    that sound is coming from the speakers not the SSD i seen external SSD in action they dont make that noise what u feel is a kind of low vibration sound.
     
  2. janos666

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    Yeah, those Seagates are nice spinners, I have 5 of them in a RAID-5 array in the home-server. I regret not buying more when some nearby company dumped ~100 with 100-200 hours in them at ~50% of list price. Affordable and sturdy.
    But I think one should compare apples to apples, so better keep the comparison between consumer HDD<>SSD or enterprise<>enterprise... many spinners are just junk (especially the cheaper kinds of 2.5" notebook HDDs), just like some SSDs are equally garbage (from day one).

    But I don't think anyone in their right mind should argue that a fairly powerful desktop PC should have the OS, programs and temp/scratch data trashing the heads like crazy of a spinning plate, making everything ralated to random access or high bandwidth requirements notably slower while generating noise and effectively torturing the HDD. Notebooks are even worse when you move them around while the plate is still spinning and the heads are jumping...
     
  3. MS_User

    MS_User MDL Guru

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    i will take any cheap SSD over any mechanical consumer HD anyday even if is made mickey mouse.
     
  4. MrMagic

    MrMagic MDL Guru

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    This ^^

    My SSDs are fairly cheap and destroy HDDs in any scenario
     
  5. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    The only thing holding me back is capacity. I need a lot (virtual machines are resource hogs). Currently I cannot get that vast capacity for an affordable price. That will change, eventually, and they will stop making mechanical drives. Virtually nobody will cry for getting them back, then.
     
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    ...I'm wondering if you have any new changes in Wimscript. ini at 1903 for use in IMAGEX? If possible could someone give me the link to the file?THANKS!
     
  7. wernser412

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    Windows 10 version 1903 build 18362.207

    h.ttps://support.microsoft.com/en-ca/help/4501375/windows-10-update-kb4501375
     
  8. MrMagic

    MrMagic MDL Guru

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    Yea it's getting cheaper, can get a 2TB SSD for just over £200 now though so not too bad
     
  9. Carlos Detweiller

    Carlos Detweiller Emperor of Ice-Cream

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    I'm talking more in the range of 6 to 10TB per disk. I have a lot of VMs. :p
     
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  11. MrMagic

    MrMagic MDL Guru

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    Yes but you buy SSDs to improve on HDDs.... just sayin
     
  12. Enthousiast

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    I have managed to brick 2 ssd's from the early days.

    They had 20 and 40TBW, but never reached the TBW, for the first (20TBW), i got a replacement that had 40TBW and it broke down early too, i didn't bother to go the RMA route and just bought the best of that time, the Samsung 850 Pro (256GB) 300TBW.

    Most here know i have a pile of broken hdd's too :D:D
     
  13. ohenry

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    #3915 ohenry, Jun 30, 2019
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    They all fail. The only question is whether it will fail while you are still using it, or whether it will become outdated / obsolete and you will stop using it before it fails.

    I have a dozen or more hard drives stacked up on a shelf out in the garage. 40, 60, 80, even a 300 gig. I really need to throw them away, just wasting shelf space as I will NEVER use them. Here in the computer room inside the house, I have four 1 gig drives removed from service, replaced by bigger drives or SSDs. Those might get used in a build for a friend or relative, but if not, they will wind up out in the garage on a shelf.

    I have been using hard drives on personal computers since around 1983 or 84. And SSDs only for the last 5 or 6 years, so I have seen many more hard drives fail. But I have seen a few SSDs fail. Overall, I would say a smaller percentage of the SSDs have failed than of the spinning hard drives. But that is anecdotal, only one person's experience.
     
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