What would you like to buy, but probably won't.

[jaybee83]

4 hours ago, ryan said:

16tb holy smokes now thats an amount i would never need. i tap out at 5 tb with every game installed-300 plus and pron movies. literally would have no idea what to do with 16tb but would jump on one if it was closer to 400 bucks

 

i think u missed the point, its 1.6 not 16 hahaha. optane is friggin expensive per GB!!!

[ryan]

optane 1.6tb thats even a thing? why would you buy optane when memory and ssd prices are low. that would mean you need to speed up your hdd which next to noone buys these days. games require a ssd nowadays

[jaybee83]

1 hour ago, ryan said:

optane 1.6tb thats even a thing? why would you buy optane when memory and ssd prices are low. that would mean you need to speed up your hdd which next to noone buys these days. games require a ssd nowadays

 

ah no, im not talking about the small capacity optane ssds used as caches to speed up slow HDDs. there are larger capacity optane drives such as the 1.6 TB ones to be used as the main drive in a machine.

 

as such, they sport insane latencies and super high IOPS at low queue depths, plus they have absolutely insane writing durability and do not degrade in performance even when they are filled to the brink. not even the fastest regular NAND ssds can compete with that, thats why optane is priced so ludicrous (that and the comparably low storage density, were basically talking SLC here).

 

in short: an optane SSD is basically the 4090 of SSDs, ultra performance at ultra pricing 😄 

 

here a review if youre interested:

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-optane-ssd-dc-p5800x-review

 

 

even compared to pcie 5.0 drives the P5800X is miles ahead:

 

[ryan]

Woah. Learn something new each day. Have you ever used one? Real world usage would you see a snappiness improvement

[jaybee83]

5 hours ago, ryan said:

Woah. Learn something new each day. Have you ever used one? Real world usage would you see a snappiness improvement

 

nope thats why id be curious to get one 😄 other users have reported a considerable bump in system snappiness tho 🙂 

[ryan]

ive loaded a game onto ram before using ramdisk. it was faster but the biggest improvement in snappiness for me has been atlas os being properly installed it was so fast that i didnt get the chance to blink before a program loaded. general use it was impressive, if this vivobook had 2 ssd slots id have it on one and stock on another. btw have you heard of de crapifier? im having great success with it i had about 230-280 processes in the background and ran chis tituses extreme windows tweaks along with it and the processes dropped to 80 and its not even a modified windows it has the store and all the apps and functionality but it was extremely fast im still experimenting with tweaks but somehow someway atlas os just feels years ahead.

[Sandy Bridge]

Yeah, along with upfront cost, charger maintenance is a concern I'd have.  My friend who owns a PHEV said the ChargePoint ones are the best around here, and they are not very good.  Chargers will go down for weeks before they get fixed - usually just one of a bunch, but still annoying, especially when their number isn't that high yet and the others might all be taken.  When the local gas station had a couple pumps down, there were more just a few feet away.

 

Though one positive thing is the Biden administration has required that all federally-supported chargers will have to include credit card support, which should reduce the need for 17 different mobile charging applications.  There are still a lot of legacy ones that don't support that, but that's another inconvenience that will hopefully be going away.  I think that regulation also included some reliability standards (e.g. it has to be up X% of the same or you owe the money back), but would have to check on that.

 

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I've played around with RAMdisks in the past.  Ultimately, my conclusion was the need to load everything first kind of defeats the point for me.  I could set my computer to put Steam and LibreOffice and Vivaldi and whatever all else on a RAMdisk when it starts... or I could just launch whichever thing I want to run off the SSD and not have it have to load all the other things.  If all I ever did was play Rocket League, it'd be perfect, but that isn't my use case.

 

Add in the need to write everything back to disk if you want it to have permanence... it's a cool toy, but even with 64 GB of (very cheap) DDR4 in my laptop, I think I'll stick with my PCIe 3.0 SSDs as my main storage method.

 

[Kitje]

A 12-200mm MFT lens from Olympus/OM System as my 14-140mm bit the dust. But reading reviews, talking about how its soft at 200mm is a bit of a downer... So I'm not going to get it, also because its high priced.

[Eban]

A bunker as seen in the recent movie Leave the world Behind

 

 

 

[ryan]

No kidding. Feels like ww3 has already begun.