Ssd

[Uranium-235]

Re: Ssd

I have 2x1TB blacks raid 1 on my fileserver (PE 1800). I have more of a PC side of work so I deal with backing up peoples files, isos for windows and other boot utliities, local installs of EVERY VERSION of Office 07/10 (legit, requires customers own key), as well as any programs I instal, and tons of utilities. Add my downloads folder (symlinked) in win7, as well as a few, but big torrented stuff. The only 'movies' I have are from very occassional video editing, and its not complex like ^that guys stuff, but I still store original sources as uncompressed RGB/PCM.

Hmm... let's see here.
Music? Pandora, Spoify, Grooveshark

1gig of mp3's on my main computer, rarely get music

Video? Hulu, Netflix, YouTube

netflix, live streaming cause I usually don't watch movies, I mostly watch docs and series

Documents? Skydrive, Google Docs

about 500M of docs on my windows profile

Porn? Um... Google search I guess?

WHY do people still download porn to save? if you want to get your rocks off there is free live streaming sites, new stuff every hour, plenty of variety, use FF in "private mode" and no ones the wiser (if you're on a box used by more then just you in your living situation). I'll give you 3 words, spankwire, redtube, youporn

Backups? Get an SSD

sure, if you have a 750G HDD, compressed, get a 512gb ssd, for oh I don't know, too freaking much. Get an external HD, or a local raided NAS, or a fileserver. I do customer backups of many hard drive, so my space is...dwindeling

infact, all in all, I use EXT3 compression, so I actually use ~1.2-1.3 TB lf data on those mirrored 1TB blacks and few days I literally had 0 left. I had to delete a bunch of stuff. I soooo want to build myself a new fileserver, but I don't even have money for the HD's, I might if the prices weren't still shit

Programs: IDK what kind of fat software you use :P

takes up tons of space, lot of large torrented stuff, some games. I use that 1TB array for everything

[mariushm]

Re: Ssd

I wish you guys would stop with the Netflix and Hulu examples. It's not representative as they're in US only. Even Spotify is available only in some countries in Europe.

Also, they don't have all the content someone would want (each one has different tastes) and we all know how your ISP start to impose bandwidth limits (like the 200-250 GB Comcast has).

Same story with Google Docs - Yeah, I guess for your personal needs you can live with it, but I can't store my NDA agreements and invoices in Google Docs. There's some laws and regulations about privacy and personal information of people I work with and can't just store that personal information on US servers (google docs or whatever).

Same with the mail - I have my own dedicated server, mail server runs on it, I use Thunderbird to access my mail through encrypted connection.


I have about 5 TB of disk space and I have about 200 GB of disk space left.

I snap pictures with my Canon camera at 10 megapixels (4 MB a picture) and keep the original as backup on my drive while online I post resized versions.
When I do some programming for websites and whatever, I use SVN and store revisions of everything so I can go back to.
I listen to some music on DI.fm or Soma.fm and sometimes I look up the artist doing a mix and download some of his other mixes. I have about 70 GB of 1 hours mixes from just two djs I like listening once in a while or while programming something.

I do video processing for a company and have about 1 TB of video to process for work every month or so.

I have legal DVDs I bought that I like to watch from time to time.. I have for example the MASH 4077 collection - the dvds are stored, I did rips for them as I don't want to hear the dvd noise when watching or to have to keep opening cases and putting them back... This series alone is 97 GB alone - 11 seasons, 4-6 GB each.

My Steam folder is 180 GB and pretty much about 40% of the games are installed - i have 215 games but only 95 are installed - I play about 10-15 games often with friends (a few times a month) and about 3 games I play almost daily.


No, SSD drives are not for backup. I'd say they're great for fast access and fast speed, for a systems drive and eventually for a game you play often that loads data files as you play, but otherwise it's stupid to pay 2-5$ per GB to hold videos and music on it.

I also believe they're still a bit more risky, unreliable, not as proven as regular disks. If you use them in a desktop, once the infant mortality risk goes (you have the drive for 3-5 months) the chances of a classic hard drive dying is minimal. In contrast SSD drives can still die all of the sudden without any visible reason or warning.