Quote:SSD life span (read online/from friends experience): 1-2 years
I bet your Friend use a cheap brand SSD . My 40GB Intel SSD is still working till now (bought it in May , 2011)
There is only 2 brands that I trust : Intel and Plextor . The rest are just meh thought I heard some Samsung SSDs are pretty good
I recommend Intel SSD 335 80GB (or 180GB) with 500MB/s read and 450MB/s write , you will have both durability and high performance
(06-29-2013, 10:18 AM)admin89 Wrote: [ -> ]Quote:SSD life span (read online/from friends experience): 1-2 years
I bet your Friend use a cheap brand SSD . My 40GB Intel SSD is still working till now (bought it in May , 2011)
There is only 2 brands that I trust : Intel and Plextor . The rest are just meh thought I heard some Samsung SSDs are pretty good
I recommend Intel SSD 335 80GB (or 180GB) with 500MB/s read and 450MB/s write , you will have both durability and high performance
That's a little over 2 years (or 3?), but that still doesn't beat 5-7 years. It could last that long, but I'm really skeptical of it. Even if the durability and performance is good that still doesn't change the fact that you don't get very much space at all (sorry, but 40GB isn't very much to show). Well you could always buy an SSD for the OS, and a larger HDD for storage so that could work well too.
I still say you should just stick with fat HDD for the space. However if you really want to then go ahead and get if for the speed.
The Samsung SSD are suppose to be the best consumer SSD
SSDs can last just as long as HDDs if:
1. They have good quality NVRAM (NAND) ICs. No cheap shit.
2. You don't constantly write data to them. As long as you turn off automated activities like defragging and leave all of your "big data" on other drives this shouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately stupid people don't do this and complain when their drive fails in 1-2 years because they didn't know how to take care of it.
Also at this stage a lot of people have early SSD models which did in fact have poor lifespans. SSD lifespans continue to improve dramatically. If you're willing to spend the big bucks on SLC NAND those drives have really good lifespans.
And yes SSDs don't offer as much capacity per dollar but they're so much faster. In random read speed, which is what most programs and your OS does most of the time they are easily 10-100 times as fast. If capacity is an issue keep a small SSD and big HDD. Use the SSD as a boot drive and keep your big data on the HDD. There, problem solved. SSDs are the most crucial upgrade for a modern PC. They allow your system to hibernate, wake, shut down, boot up, load programs, and close programs almost instantaneously (among other things). Everything feels so ridiculously smooth I don't know how I ever lived without one.
(06-29-2013, 12:59 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]SSDs can last just as long as HDDs if:
1. They have good quality NVRAM (NAND) ICs. No cheap shit.
2. You don't constantly write data to them. As long as you turn off automated activities like defragging and leave all of your "big data" on other drives this shouldn't be an issue. Unfortunately stupid people don't do this and complain when their drive fails in 1-2 years because they didn't know how to take care of it.
I hope you're not trying to call me stupid bud. I'm just going off of what I've read from reviews mainly, and some torture test results.
(06-29-2013, 12:59 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]SSDs are the most crucial upgrade for a modern PC
Bullshit. Computers don't
need an SSD to be considered usable, or not. The only thing it will significantly impact is boot, and load times of certain programs/games. I'm not using an SSD, and my computer can boot up (cold) in 20 seconds which is fast enough for me.
(06-29-2013, 12:59 PM)NaturalViolence Wrote: [ -> ]Everything feels so ridiculously smooth I don't know how I ever lived without one.
Probably the same reason you're more concerned with setting up something than you are actually using it.
Scootaloo Wrote:I hope you're not trying to call me stupid bud. I'm just going off of what I've read from reviews mainly, and some torture test results.
I'm not sure where you got this idea from. How could I be referring to you when you don't even have an SSD?
Scootaloo Wrote:Computers don't need an SSD to be considered usable, or not.
They don't need one. But in terms of an upgrade that will actually make the system feel faster nothing beats an SSD.
Scootaloo Wrote:The only thing it will significantly impact is boot, and load times of certain programs/games. I'm not using an SSD, and my computer can boot up (cold) in 20 seconds which is fast enough for me.
Everything you do that involves disk access will be massively sped up. The seek times (latency) in particular make a big impact. It's not just boot times. Your system will feel far more responsive. It won't slow down as you fill up the disk and install more programs. When you click on things you'll get an immediate response instead of the system taking a fraction of a second to several seconds to open something. This is the kind of speedup we used to see in the 90s with a cpu upgrade. Where the entire system will actually feel faster. These days you can't get that from a cpu upgrade, because most of the things you do are actually limited by disk speed or network speed instead of cpu throughput. Only very computationally demanding tasks (video encoding or 3D rendering to pick some random examples) rely on cpu performance. Upgrade the cpu in a modern laptop and you probably won't notice any perceivable difference in performance. But throw an SSD in there and it will fly.
Scootaloo Wrote:Probably the same reason you're more concerned with setting up something than you are actually using it.
I don't understand what you're implying here.
Good job neobrain. Keep working on your beautifully accurate software renderer (remember I'll always believe in you
).
(06-29-2013, 03:45 PM)Shonumi Wrote: [ -> ]Good job neobrain. Keep working on your beautifully accurate software renderer (remember I'll always believe in you ).
Thanks man
Fixed a bunch of bugs, it actually looks like lighting now:
Specular lighting still needs some work, though.
Nevermind, specular lighting works :p
Damn, you're rapidly progressing neobrain. Are you the only one working on the software renderer?