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Wow. Yeah, if any of you still use an older gaming/workstation laptop with a removable hard drive, definitely replace it with that 1TB. Seeing prices for this stuff fall makes me happy. The more people using SSDs, the better.
Micron also puts out a 2tb SSD that frequently is under 300
Often 250. I got one for 230 and then another for 200.
Once my 1TB ADATA comes in that I got on that $150 deal I'm moving 100% away from mechanical drives. Going forward if I buy a drive it will be a ssd.
I don't make enough money, and I make too many large files to move away from HDDs.
2TB SSDs are still 7-900$ here
Yeah there's no way I can afford to replace my 4 and 8tb server drives with SSD
Actually, with the 1TB SATA SSDs going down in price, you think it could be worthwhile to go for a RAID 0 setup? Or would just getting a 1TB NVMe drive be more cost effective if I need maximum speed?
Complicated question, in general I'd avoid RAID 0 though. (Ironically, as someone with two RAID 0 arrays currently) You should probably go with the largest NVMe drive you can muster. Past that, you're gonna get into weighing the space/power footprint, then PCIe lanes/SATA ports, then into HBA cards, then into PCIe lanes again and probably need to look into X299 or X399.
Raid0 is silly with SATA drives. If you want that level of performance increase, go NVMe, since it's a much better protocol and you wouldn't get the SATA overhead, RAID overhead or added complexity. I would check benchmarks for your workload if possible before buying, though. Load/compile times sound like something that will be significantly more bound by CPU than your storage speed. Save speeds could possibly be the same. Keep in mind that the extra read speed won't do anything if your CPU can't process the data fast enough, and extra write speed won't do anything if your CPU can't supply the data fast enough. NVMe makes almost no difference for consumer workloads for this reason. Unity could be different, but i haven't checked - this exercise will be left up to the reader. If it's about moving files, keep in mind that you'll be limited by the speed of the slowest device in that pair. Gigabit ethernet speeds can't saturate an NVMe drive's full speed, and you'll need to read/write NVMe to NVMe to get the speed boost when copying.
Here I am again with my monthly post about wanting to buy a new PC for up to 1200€, I have an SSD and HDDs already, and I need it to be as silent as possible and have a Ryzen and an Nvidia card cuz I work in number crunching
If you really want the lowest possible sound signature and money isn't an issue, I'd just get an AIO liquid cooler, for your GPU too, even.
But don't get one of the cheaper AIO solutions because those can actually wind up louder than high quality fans if not kept in perfect shape My current rig has Noctua everything, and is silent to the point I can hear coil wine when the GPU isn't active
AiOs in general are a mixed bag. For the 2600X, just slap a Dark Rock Pro 4 or NH-D15/SE/AM4 on it, and you should never hear the fans spin up.
What a coworker of mine does, and what I'd recommend for silence at the most reasonable cost, is a big, beefy air cooled tower on the CPU with a single Noctua static pressure fan, a high quality AIO cooler on the GPU, and airflow coordinated to primarily serve the radiator. They arranged all the fans so that it intakes from the bottom, and exhausts through the radiator on top, and since those are the only two major openings, convection does most of the work, and it stays very, very quiet even when doing VR stuff.
Their case has three inch tall feet to elevate it, and has about a foot between itself and the rest of their furniture
The generally accepted best way for near silent is a custom loop with a whole lot of radiator surface area and 500rpm fans with a resistor slipped on the cables.
Fuck it man, just make the case a bigass radiator with mounts.
So... Is fabric the new chic thing to put on computer stuff now? A lot of suppliers for my work updated their catalogs, and it seems like all of them have speakers, battery packs, phone cases, thumb drives, and even AIO desktops with fabric accents. Even Microsoft has been putting Alcantara all over their portable devices, and Google is wrapping like everything but their smartphones in what looks like nylon mesh.
I actually like the direction, while fabric does get dirty, it feels much better than rubber or silicon stuff. I'm even using one on my 6P: https://9to5google.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/6p-case.png
I mean, on some things it looks great, but it's just a little jarring to see it suddenly pop up on, like, everything, all at once. It's great for stuff like wrist rests and phone cases, but on laptops and desktops fabric can be really annoying to work around, and you risk tearing it during more involved repairs.
I've never bought fans before in my life but I need some help. I've got an AIO with a push/pull setup on my CPU. I need to replace those two fans and my case fans. Some of the case fans are hooked up on molex I believe because there wasn't enough fan headers on the motherboard. The case fans I'm not worried about right now, but say I wanted to put two Noctua's on the CPU... What ones should I buy? I'd honestly go air cooling if I knew for a fact it would be just as good if not better than this AIO. I've got a 2500k overclocked to 4.2 so it gets pretty warm under load... So what should I do? New noctua fans or ditch this asetek AIO and go air cooled? If I get noctua fans, what ones?
Noctua's own buying guide is super helpful. Pay particular attention to points 7 and 8. I've got a question of my own, I'm looking for a 500GB M.2 SSD to use as a "boot, core apps and frequently played games" drive. What model would you say is the "sweet spot" for that? I'm not really doing anything storage-intensive on the productivity end of things, and while I want super snappy performance, I'm not confident that I can actually utilize all the potential of a 970 Evo with my regular workload. I don't feel like I want to pay the price premium for the 970 Evo either, $200 for 500GB is steep. Pretty much the most storage-intensive things I do are Photoshop and compiling, and that's really not very storage-intensive at all.
So are you looking for a SATA m.2 drive or just a cheaper PCIe one?
See, I'm not quite sure, and I've been debating this a lot. I'm not sure if saturating SATA completely, like good SATA SSDs often do, is enough to leave me happy with my day-to-day performance, or if I'd rather spring for a lower-end NVMe drive that's still quicker than SATA. I've never owned a modern SSD, so I don't really have a frame of reference.
For 120mm fans on rads/heatsinks, you basically can't beat the GT-style design: Noctua Clone: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07C5VG64V Non-PWM versions of OG Gentle Typhoons: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01LXU81IO/ Unless you go really high-end 240 or into 360+ radiators, I think heatsinks are generally the better option, the Dark Rock Pro 4, and NH-D15 are both good choices. For case fans, if have basically completely unobstructed airflow (I.E, not even a dust filter, just a straight mesh/punched holes) then the airflow Noctuas are perfect: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07657VBQQ/ Otherwise, for case fans just go with those DarkSide GTs, since they're basically cheaper and better than everything else. If you want more PWM fans on a MB header, grab one of these: https://www.amazon.com/dp/product/B00VNW556I/ If you put 3-pin DC fans, they should just go full speed - if you care too much about sound level and want to plug those GTs into it, grab the PWM GTs from Nidec proper, they aren't as fast, but since we've established sound as important, it's a fair trade-off: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001Q6RUVO/
What are you writing to your SSD that it won't even keep up for three years? Assuming around a 1000 P/E cycles (isn't that around the best guess for TLC NAND), you'd be able to write 128TB to that puny SSD. That's basically a complete rewrite, every day, for three years straight. Or maybe you're talking about some reliability issue I'm not aware of - if so, I apologize. Not trying to defend the use of fabric on wear surfaces.
It's rather common to find SSDs with 40TBW at the bottom tier now. It's still a lot, but i've got that much on my 250GB 830 now, so...
Surface Laptop is really nice from a design perspective, but as a former repair tech, fuck that thing. It perfectly exemplifies everything that is wrong with modern electronics, I'd argue even moreso than the new MacBook. At least I can open a MacBook without basically destroying it.
If you're not scared about warranties, you can pick up fresh pulls from brand new systems on ebay of the PM961(960 Evo) and PM981(970 Evo) for generally $40-50 off the price of the consumer drives. The firmware is a little different but in benchmarks they trade blows depending on the test, otherwise they're just green instead of black and don't come with a manufacturer warranty or the samsung software suite/firmware updates. The 256gb PM961's are a total steal since you can pick them up for $70 which is as cheap as you can possibly get nvme drives but some certain models have increased in price since people have been buying them.
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