Intel reveals 1.6TB SSD

Yay we can finally say goodbye to hard drives soon
 
Probably one of the hardware that lasted the longest in the history of pc's

I mean IDE was pretty much the same as Sata.


SSD as a standard.... Ama-zing
 
Thor187 said:
Probably one of the hardware that lasted the longest in the history of pc's

I mean IDE was pretty much the same as Sata.


SSD as a standard.... Ama-zing
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And memory? RAM is still the same tech as in the 1980s. Just better performance, better buffering, faster speed, sometimes error correction. Same with optical.

SATA, IDE and SAS/SCSI are connectivity options. You get SAS connected SSDs and SATA connected SSDs, and HDDs.

Now with companies like Hitachi/WD producing 8TB HDDs, the HDD still wins on capacity.
 
Forgot tha ram! Sorry :)


Point I was trying to make is that I would enjoy affordable SSD as my primary storage
 
Space_Chief said:
And memory? RAM is still the same tech as in the 1980s. Just better performance, better buffering, faster speed, sometimes error correction. Same with optical.

SATA, IDE and SAS/SCSI are connectivity options. You get SAS connected SSDs and SATA connected SSDs, and HDDs.

Now with companies like Hitachi/WD producing 8TB HDDs, the HDD still wins on capacity.
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Yeah, but there's less and less need for local storage these days.

I prefer to have everything in the cloud. and yes, that includes movies and tv series.
 
The tech they discovered can go up to 10TB so they're going to sell it at 1.5TB in years time and can double it every 1.5 years to make you come back for more.
 
Chevron said:
Yeah, but there's less and less need for local storage these days.

I prefer to have everything in the cloud. and yes, that includes movies and tv series.
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I am totally for this!, but we will need a different internet access/bandwidth model if we want to make this feasible.

skimread said:
The tech they discovered can go up to 10TB so they're going to sell it at 1.5TB in years time and can double it every 1.5 years to make you come back for more.
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Thats true ! ( microsoft does that)
 
Chevron said:
Yeah, but there's less and less need for local storage these days.

I prefer to have everything in the cloud. and yes, that includes movies and tv series.
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I can't agree with that. Cloud requires connectivity and we know that sucks. When you get a 100MB/sec up and down link which is as reliable and unlimited as a SATA connection, call me.

In addition you still need to store you downloaded games or are you saying we're gonna stream games and use our PCs as dumb terminals? The latency better be good then.

Then are people who need storage local for creation and scratch purposes.

Never mind that cloud can be unsafe and un-secure.

And maybe I'm old school but I prefer my software, music, games and videos locally. Yes I can stream them but that puts me at the mercy of the provider, and providers frequently lose licenses. Here I can just access my BD/DVD library - all ripped to 1080p H264 files. Even when the license expires I can watch these things. And yes some shows are no longer licensed and become out of print. And if not that you may have to re-purchase the license from a different provider, or the thing is not available in your region. The beauty of DVD/BD (never mind downloads) is that you can get access to everything and storing it makes sense.
 
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Thor187 said:
I am totally for this!, but we will need a different internet access/bandwidth model if we want to make this feasible.
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I'm OK with this if this is only an option. As said before there are more good reasons to be against this. The current Copyright model also works against this and that is not going to change. I prefer local storage with optional offsite backup.
 
Space_Chief said:
I can't agree with that. Cloud requires connectivity and we know that sucks. When you get a 100MB/sec up and down link which is as reliable and unlimited as a SATA connection, call me.

In addition you still need to store you downloaded games or are you saying we're gonna stream games and use our PCs as dumb terminals? The latency better be good then.

Then are people who need storage local for creation and scratch purposes.

Never mind that cloud can be unsafe and un-secure.
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Most of that sounds like justification.

The only real point there is games and a 256GB SSD is enough for that.

10Meg uncapped business ADSl is enough to experience the cloud life.

All my music is streamed from Deezer.

Netflix for movies and TV series.

Crunchyroll for Anime.

Office 365/Google docs for documents.

Adobe has creative cloud.

Family photos can go to dropbox.

Maybe if you're a videographer or photographer you'll need some local storage. That's about it.
 
Chevron said:
Most of that sounds like justification.
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This is just silly because you're justifying too. That's like saying "most of that sounds like reasons to not have cloud". Duh.

The only real point there is games and a 256GB SSD is enough for that.
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Depends on how much stuff you have. No 256GB can be enough but need not be.

10Meg uncapped business ADSl is enough to experience the cloud life.
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No it isn't. Again it depends on speed. Arguably 56K modem speed is enough to enjoy cloud life if you're hosting simple docs in the cloud (text with basic formatting).

All my music is streamed from Deezer.
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Don't carry stuff I listen to.

Netflix for movies and TV series.
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Don't carry most of the stuff I wish to watch. Officially illegal in SA. Dodgy and your account could be cancelled at any time. Never mind that if NF loses the license you have to find someone else.

Crunchyroll for Anime.
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So what about the shows not available on CR? And what about shows where CR loses the license? And what if the net is down or CR is overloaded? And you like the subs on CR releases?

Office 365/Google docs for documents.
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Open Office, Pages or Office Pro/Business. I can backup docs in the cloud sure, but the confidential stuff never goes offsite.

Adobe has creative cloud.
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I have PS CS4. No monthly fees.

Family photos can go to dropbox.
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There are 1000s of offsite providers.

Maybe if you're a videographer or photographer you'll need some local storage. That's about it.
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Nope. If my connection was 2-3Gbps I could use that as a scratch disk too. That's scratch for 576p/720p editing.

Thing is that I doubt we'll see reliable connections like that for now 4K content which is next, and then Super Hi Vision (8K).

Maybe you're young. You don't have much stuff at home. Not much storage. I have a huge library of DVDs and BDs and much of that is rare stuff. NF doesn't have most of it. Cloud is just not an option. Quality is 576p/480p/1080p which you won't get with NF. And the stuff is mine forever.

Now you could say, But Space_Chief, what if you get burgled? I have insurance.
 
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