Nothin’ wrong with that.
My wife doesn’t even know what brand her iPad is. Seriously.
I’m not even a gamer. I just don’t like my programs to take forever when they start up (like Photoshop), and I want seamless, smooth dual 4K display. The only games I play are KSP and ONI, nothing that requires the latest GPU. Originally, I was going to buy a GTX 1060 for this computer, and then use an SLI bridge to link it to my other 1060, and just run dual GPUs. But the salesman explained that SLI doesn’t work with the 1060. They were also running a deal: Pay for a GTX1080 and get an RTX2080. So I jumped on that offer and just sold my old GTX1060. No regrets.
3770K
Z77X-UD5H
32 GB DDR3 1600
1 TB SSD
525 GB SSD
A few mechanical drives
700 series graphics card
It’s ancient as hell at this point.
I own a few MBPs and other Windows laptops I can’t recall off the top of my head.
I also have one of these. It gets upgraded whenever something on it breaks, or when my employer discards components that are better than what I have.
It’s mostly a media server, although it’s also around to play games that require Windows.
Current mobo and cpu are salvaged from a Dell Optiplex 9010 (Core-i7 I think). Memory salvaged from something else. It’s extra ghetto since Dell has lots of custom crap that doesn’t fit a normal pinout, and if it’s not present, it gets snippy at boot, so I had to rip apart the Dell power button and splice in some wires to hook it up to the case’s button (I needed a bigger case to house all the hard drives), and if you open it up you’ll find a fan that doesn’t do anything useful and a jagged-plastic-edged portion of the dell case front that was removed by brute force ziptied up and out of the way. Again, it won’t boot without that crap plugged in.
But: free! (except for storage. My company physically destroys HDDs when computers are decommissioned).
I also have one of the new Macbook Pros, the one without the touchbar.
Is it just me or is it weird that SSDs come in odd sizes like this?
I bet that the underlying storage is really a power of 2, but some is reserved for manufacturing/runtime yield issues.
If you know that 99.9% of your manufactured drives have somewhere between 0 and 10 GB of bad sectors within the warranty period, then you sell your 512G drive as a 500G drive and great.
Then you get the difference between GiB and GB
A drive with 2^whatever bytes has 512 GiB, or ~550GB, so it’s reserving about 25GB for whatever.
Nope. It’s a Crucial MX300 internal SSD using the current/old 2.5" form factor. I had a Samsung, a couple actually but burned them out enough to warrant a swap.
512 GB is the usual amount for SSDs in that range but the MX300 was an outsider. It also came in 1,050 GB form instead of 1 TB. The two prior Samsungs were Pro models.
SSD prices are cheap now and getting cheaper. I don’t know if I’ll move to an NVME PCIE SSD because I don’t see any particular use case where I’d use it and benefit from it. Though that’s on my next build and I’m not sure what I want to get. I don’t game much so I won’t see major benefit going for a 9900K over a future 3700X from AMD.
The Crucial and Samsung controllers have access to discreet SLC based storage you can’t see for their operations and programming. What you see is what you get apart from the translation issue. I’ve got an old laptop I installed an Crucial MX100 in a few years ago. That is a 512 GB drive and it has a usable 476 GB of space.
MX300: Crucial MX300 525GB & 1050GB SSD Review - Tom's Hardware | Tom's Hardware
MX100: Crucial MX100 (256GB & 512GB) Review
Bought the MX100 in late 2014 on a holiday sale for around $180. It MSRP’d for around $230 maybe or less. You can get a lot more SSD for either that sale or MSRP amount. Off the top of my head, I’ve written 38 TB to that MX100 on my laptop. It’s still showing 94% health according to whatever SMART monitor I use as well as Crucials own software. No idea how much I spent on the MX300, but it was cheaper.
I’m not sure what part of my quoted post you think is wrong.
There is no dead value that gets downgraded. You’re thinking of CPU binning which has higher fault rates. The amount uses by the controller is separate from what’s available. If NAND has bad sectors as you point out it’s scrapped. The total failure rate of NAND in the wild is less than a couple percent a year. If wafers are bad, then the drives will have problems down the line as the chips degrade over time. And considering some drives had petabytes written to them just a few years ago, they would have popped up fast. While SSDs are now reliable compared to a decade ago, you’re still not advised to store long term data as you would a mechanical drive because of cost and how the drive can easily die/corrupt versus a mechanical that will often give you a clue as to its health.
If a drive is advertised as having 128 GB, it offers 128 GB in metric units. Operating systems work off of your example, the power of 2. That’s it. There is no space taken away and placed aside for the controller software, drive leveling and such. That part is separate and usually works off of SLC memory and has its own cache. Most drives you can get right now are MLC and TLC, their controller will often use a separate set of SLC memory for those functions. Additionally, the controller will have some DRAM as a buffer cache. SSD designs vary, but the basic premise is a three part system. The controller also has enough power on certain SSDs that hold data in the cache and write it to the main chips in the case of a power loss which prevents data corruption.
The premise of separate caches and buffers isn’t unlike a mechanical drive.
And aside from those set off GB of chips for the controller, there’s a few more GB baked in for wear leveling and hand off in case of chip death. They’re pretty fascinating things. My first SSD was a hugely expensive Intel SSD I paid a princely sum for. Got burned by a couple OCZ drives and learned my lesson. But even now I’d love to build a full tower and stuff it with multiple 8 TB drives.
I built a frankenstein laptop.
It’s a Thinkpad T520, with the motherboard from a T530 swapped in. I also picked up an i7 extreme edition 3920XM on ebay to replace the i5 3320m that it had. Swapped an LG 1080p screen in to replace the stock 720p panel. Installed a 500gb evo 860 ssd. Picked up a 94wH battery to replace the 56wH it came with. Running Solus linux.
It loads reddit super fast !!
My desktop is a 2600k that still manages to clock to 5ghz, and a 1070TI. Dell Ultrasharp U2711. Some of the finest hardware you could buy nearly a decade ago! Still plays EverQuest very well.
Bucketloads. I’m a computer collector.
Apple IIe, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, Acorn Election, Amstrad CPC 464, ZX Spectrum 48K & 128K, Atari ST, Amiga 500, Acorn Archimedes, a self-built Windows 98 computer with 450 MHz Pentium III, a Powerbook G3, an iBook G3, and a Powerbook G4.
My daily drivers are my iBook G3 which I use for writing and my hunk of junk Lenovo Core i3 Windows 10 laptop which I’m using now.
Oh, and a Macintosh SE. Knew I’d forget one.
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At home, I have a cheapo Asus ultrabook that I bought 6 months ago for $600.
At work, I have a Dell Precision with some kind of i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD.
My team also manages roughly 4800-6200 cores, 30-40 TB of RAM, and about a PB of NVME depending on the time of day. But that’s not really mine. We’re just renting.
Dell 17R laptop with 8GB RAM, Core i7 CPU @ 1.8Ghz, 1 TB HDD, 64-bit Windows 10 Home preloaded. Bought in 2015. Takes forever to boot up.
I’m on holiday from the UK (in Las Vegas. 
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I’m posting e-mails, surfing and playing Lord of the Rings Online.
My computer is at least 8 years old. :eek:
Here are the system details:
- Toshiba Satellite C655D
- AMD II P320 Dual-Core Processor 2.10 Ghz
- 4.00 GB RAM
- 64 bit OS
Hah. I go visit a friend in London and he gifts me a new machine:
2014 Mac Mini, Core i7 3Ghz, 16GB Ram, 512GB SSD. Going to use it as a media server.
I spied his replacement - he got a 2013 Mac Pro!
Work Crapbox
HP Compaq 6005 Pro (estimated to have been purchased in 2011), Windows 7 Enterprise(?), AMD Athlon II 3.20 GHz, 10 GB RAM (only because I scavenged enough to fill the available slots), 250 GB hard drive, one optical drive, failing ATI FireMV 2250 graphics card. Numerous attempts have been made to replace the graphics card, but with its 240 W power supply, this computer is incapable of running anything new, and I’m not about to spend my own money on a refurbished card.
Windows 10 box
HP Envy 700qe, Windows 10 Pro, Intel i7-4470 3.4 GHz, 12 GB RAM, 2 TB hard drive, 2 GB AMD Radeon R7, one optical drive. Currently connected to the TV in the living room. Spending two weeks running this from the command line following a post-update database failure (which ultimately required a factory reset to fix) led me to purchase:
My everyday-use home computer
27" iMac, 3.8 Ghz Intel Core i5, 8 GB RAM, 2.12 TB Fusion drive, Radeon Pro 580, no optical drive. Currently running 10.13.6. Has no problem syncing with my ancient iPod.
Ubuntu box
HP Pavilion 170t, Intel i7-860 dual core, 8 GB RAM, two optical drives, some kind of slot designed for a specific type of HP external hard drive that I never owned. The computer shipped with a 1 TB hard drive that failed just after the warranty ran out; currently, there’s an 80 GB hard drive installed, because that’s all I had laying around the house. The wireless internet connection is achieved through an old TiVo wireless point plugged into the ethernet port; the operating system sees this as a wired connection. This is more of a hobby computer to give me a chance to play with Linux, although it also serves as a DVD/streaming service player for the upstairs TV.
I also have my old college laptop upstairs; it’s a Dell running Windows XP. It also has loads of cheap student-edition software on it, so it would still be fun to play with (even if it doesn’t connect to the internet). I haven’t turned it on in years though.
Got a Macintosh Quadra 700 coming my way. 1991 machine, 25MHz 68040, made famous as the computer on Jurassic park the security administrator password locks.
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