I so love how I am portrayed in this forum thread… First, yes I am impatient but then again I’ve been trying to get this computer going for going on 3 weeks… second, I missed the hard drive speeds when I bought it *Seriously why make a 2TB Hard drive with as you said 14yr old tech* Sadly I burn thru Disk space like a fat man at a buffet. I didn’t originally go for the SSD’s because I’ve heard a lot of response on the fact they burn out fast. Third, I am not that stupid to keep worthless product… especially when I can get my money back ^_^;
And yes my Uncle loves me very much :P
But, this is actually being bought with Income taxes, YAY REFUNDS!
You know why I said you'd probably just keep the other parts? Because other people do exactly that.
What's worse is when a lot of people come in and say, I just bought this at random. Is it any good? And the answer is usually, no, it's terrible.
And then there's the, come in, ask for advice, and then half an hour later come back and say, I just bought this at random. Is it any good? Which isn't quite what you did, but it's kind of close.
There are two reasons why 5900 RPM hard drives exist. First is that a lower rotation speed reduces power consumption. Second is that it's cheaper to make a given capacity at a lower rotation speed. For bulk data storage, the reduced speed doesn't matter, so you get what you need for cheaper.
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While you can wear out an SSD through excessive writes, general consumer use won't do it. If you want to run a write-heavy database off of an SSD, then you need to worry that it will wear out. But you could wipe the SSD and reinstall everything from scratch, and do that every single day, in addition to normal use, and it would still take several years to wear it out.
Reads don't wear on an SSD at all. It's only writes. They generally can handle writing over all of the NAND flash 3k-5k times before they wear out. And even when they do wear out, it doesn't mean you lose data. It just means that it won't let you write to it anymore. You can still copy your data off of it.
My apologies if what I wrote was taken as an Insult... Was not my intent... My Intent was Humor... anywho.
Thanks for the assist even tho i royally screwed up, Hardware was never my thing... and seriously why didnt I catch that Hard drive thing... talk about feeling stupid.
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You know why I said you'd probably just keep the other parts? Because other people do exactly that.
What's worse is when a lot of people come in and say, I just bought this at random. Is it any good? And the answer is usually, no, it's terrible.
And then there's the, come in, ask for advice, and then half an hour later come back and say, I just bought this at random. Is it any good? Which isn't quite what you did, but it's kind of close.
There are two reasons why 5900 RPM hard drives exist. First is that a lower rotation speed reduces power consumption. Second is that it's cheaper to make a given capacity at a lower rotation speed. For bulk data storage, the reduced speed doesn't matter, so you get what you need for cheaper.
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While you can wear out an SSD through excessive writes, general consumer use won't do it. If you want to run a write-heavy database off of an SSD, then you need to worry that it will wear out. But you could wipe the SSD and reinstall everything from scratch, and do that every single day, in addition to normal use, and it would still take several years to wear it out.
Reads don't wear on an SSD at all. It's only writes. They generally can handle writing over all of the NAND flash 3k-5k times before they wear out. And even when they do wear out, it doesn't mean you lose data. It just means that it won't let you write to it anymore. You can still copy your data off of it.
My apologies if what I wrote was taken as an Insult... Was not my intent... My Intent was Humor... anywho.
Thanks for the assist even tho i royally screwed up, Hardware was never my thing... and seriously why didnt I catch that Hard drive thing... talk about feeling stupid.
Also thanks for the heads up on the SSD.
My Poor Refund ;-; Live and Learn? /sigh