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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   15 Jan 2015 23:18 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      21 of 58 
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Want, not need.

Use your thoughts, Luce.

 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   16 Jan 2015 02:49 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      22 of 58 
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I'll never be a Jedi :C

Fuck you, Obi Wan Boughton.

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 From:  Voltane   17 Jan 2015 15:47 
 To:  koswix       23 of 58 
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quote: koswix
I'm pretty sure kine was meant to have two bays, but when I opened it up it's only one. My original plan was ssd + normal drive :-(

Didn't you buy a PCSpecialist laptop?

If so the second bay is a replacement for the dvd drive so if you have one of those you'll have to order the hd bay.

That's what i did. I have an external dvd drive, which i've never used, and got a second drive in the bay.
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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   17 Jan 2015 17:19 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      24 of 58 
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What made you conclude that an SSD is better than a hybrid? Not that I disbelieve you, it's just that I've been looking at an iMac with the "fusion" drive (read Apple claptrap marketing spiel for 'hybrid') and felt a gut dislike of the name if nothing else.

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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   17 Jan 2015 18:30 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      25 of 58 
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Can't remember. Looking at what's on the market (here in Canada) now:

- hybrid drives are a lot cheaper than they were, but still >2x more than a 'plain' hdd of equivalent storage capacity.

- the actual ssd part has underwhelming capacity (e.g. 8 GB), which is used as a cache and not a standalone volume on which you can install stuff (I think. Is it even persistent?)

- so stuff like booting and program launching might not benefit all that much anyway

- "Improves overall responsiveness by 20% or more" Meh.

The actual reason why *I* didn't buy an ssd is because I only had one available sata slot (the other being occupied by a dvd drive), and I would have wanted a regular hdd on board as well for all the stuff I keep onboard, AND I run a 4-way multiboot (xp + 3 linuxes) so it seemed like too much of a hassle to work out how to put an ssd into the mix.

Have to say though that the latest iMacs are super fast. Which they ought to be considering the price. Not sure if any of the 4 we got in at work over the past year or so (most recent a couple of months) have hybrid drives in 'em.

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 From:  koswix    17 Jan 2015 19:10 
 To:  Voltane      26 of 58 
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Aah really? That is rather awesome to know. I've only ever used the Dvd drive for installing Windows, but can't that be done via a SD card these days? 

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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   17 Jan 2015 19:12 
 To:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      27 of 58 
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I thought the hybrid drive was default, but it seems that that is only the case of the retina iMac.

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 From:  Ken (SHIELDSIT)   18 Jan 2015 20:37 
 To:  koswix       28 of 58 
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Yes
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 From:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)   19 Jan 2015 00:38 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      29 of 58 
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:(

Why do you not want to think? What have they done to you to make you like this?

 
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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   19 Jan 2015 10:52 
 To:  Peter (BOUGHTONP)      30 of 58 
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I have thought for literally many minutes and it is not helping.
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 From:  graphitone   19 Jan 2015 14:21 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      31 of 58 
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I think he's having you on with a annoying clever play on words.

You said:
 
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Having been previously sort of opposed to SSDs I did a u-turn and got one the other day
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2Y?


He's probably gone all Times cryptic crossword on you with u-turn meaning a backwards or an upside down character, and 'got one' could imply choosing the number 1 rather than procurement of a thing.

So, what's Y upside down? Something like a reversed lambda symbol. But why two of them? Two lambda characters next to each other look something like... Two upside down Ys. Maybe they somehow form the logo of the company PB thought you bought the drive from.


 



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 From:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)   19 Jan 2015 15:39 
 To:  graphitone      32 of 58 
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fookin' hell, you've actually given that some thought! :/

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 From:  graphitone   19 Jan 2015 16:54 
 To:  99% of gargoyles look like (MR_BASTARD)      33 of 58 
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Not really, just the ramblings of a bored worker.


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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   19 Jan 2015 18:53 
 To:  graphitone      34 of 58 
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I did wonder about the u-turn and upside-down/reversed characters but... yeah. I don't see where that goes with 2Y either.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   19 Jan 2015 21:09 
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   19 Jan 2015 21:32 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      36 of 58 
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I assumed it was "why?" twice. One asking why you were opposed to SSDs and the second then why you got one.
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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   19 Jan 2015 22:22 
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[Ooooh a clever rat!]

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 From:  graphitone   19 Jan 2015 23:28 
 To:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)      38 of 58 
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Yep. I reckon Chris might be onto something.


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 From:  Drew (X3N0PH0N)   20 Jan 2015 17:33 
 To:  Chris (CHRISSS)      39 of 58 
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omg you may be onto something.

I will answer both questions in case you are right.

I was opposed to SSDs because due to their size/price it's not like you can put *everything* on there. So, in the case of Windows you have to choose, really, between the OS or the apps and games on the SSD. So you either get a fast boot (who cares really) or apps that load fast the first time per boot (who cares) and/or games which load faster (kinda cool but... who really cares).

With Linux it's a *bit* better since the apps and the OS kinda go together. But the benefit is mitigated by the fact that I reboot about once a month and stuff loads fast when it's cached anyway.

So, given their prices compared to HDDs I never really thought they were worth it.

*However*. I recently built a new PC and it's a pretty (by my standards) decent PC with fast things in it. And it seemed a bit odd to not have an SSD in such a spec. So I got one to see what all the fuss is about.

It's kinda cool. Boots fast and apps start essentially instantly in most cases. Still not sure they're worth it though (~6x the price for the same capacity).
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 From:  Chris (CHRISSS)   4 Feb 2015 22:34 
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I really should put my SSD in my laptop. It has a higher capacity than the drive in here now and I rarely use my desktop these days.
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