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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:09:05 PM EDT
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I spent a LOT of money on phase change setups when I really couldnt afford it. Always been big into the overclocking scene. Xtremesystems.org was the place to be in the early 2000s if you were big into hardware.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:14:49 PM EDT
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I have a few of the old HDDs from the early 90's, they still work but barely. The sata SSDs are nice for some general storage, I throw them in those portable, cheap cases from amazon. The M.2 SSD is the cats ass though, No delays like the old HDDs nor the heat OR the risk of failure.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:16:36 PM EDT
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I remember begging my parents to buy RAM to play Test Drive 3 on a Wang computer.
Baller.  Test Drive III: The Passion |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:20:34 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I had the same sensation the first time I played the Nintendo Switch. Grew up with Gameboy, NES, etc. I was sitting outside on the porch one night playing Breath of the Wild on the Switch and I was just blown away by it. To think I am playing a game of this magnitude on a portable system with this level of graphics on a lit screen?!? To the kid in me it was astounding. Thinking back to Gameboy and all it's iterations I just never thought I would have that much power in a portable system. And it's so thin and light! Just amazing when you stop and think about it. I still have my OG game boy, pocket GB (clear), GB color (neon green), GB advanced, and 2 GB cameras with printer and extra printer paper. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:37:45 PM EDT
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 The History of Data Storage | Evolution of Memory | Timeline of Computer Storage 4 year old video shows its age. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:41:54 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: My first computer had a whopping 16k of RAM and NO hard drive at all. It was replaced, about a year later, with one that had 64k of RAM and an incredible 10gb hard drive. We were in high cotton.  Wow, 10gb in 1990? |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:47:26 PM EDT
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Samsung has 8tb ssds now:
https://www.samsung.com/us/computing/memory-storage/solid-state-drives/870-qvo-sata-iii-2-5-ssd-8tb-mz-77q8t0b-am/ |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 9:49:19 PM EDT
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I had the 5 1/4 and 3 1/2” drives and was amazed when Zip drives came out.
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:08:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Op must be like 100 or something. All the cool kids are on NVMe gen4 now. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/439317/20-147-796-V01-2457832.jpg That's great, for like a laptop or boot/root. What I -- and I suspect the OP would -- want is a hot plug backplane into which I can plug like 24 of those. NVME is awesome and I use it, but you run out of PCIe lanes quickly. Here is something that is really neat for building arrays of SSD https://www.icydock.com/goods.php?id=267 Holds 8, up to 7mm high, 2.5" drives in a half height bay, fed with two mini SAS cables. They make one for 8x NVME SSD, but even with a 9400 series LSI controller, you need two controllers to get enough Oculink channels, getting back to ultimately running out of PCIe lanes |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:09:57 PM EDT
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That Samsung 8TB looks nice, I'll have to check out its specs. I've been using the Micron ION 5210 7.2 TB SSD's for close to two years now with great results
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:14:19 PM EDT
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Laughs in vacuum tube analog
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:24:19 PM EDT
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The forerunner of Pong
 Tennis for Two - The Original Video Game |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:26:55 PM EDT
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Quoted: It seems like yesterday I was playing quake 3, building phase change systems for overclocking my pentium 4 and paying hundreds and hundreds of dollars for 120gb big ass hard drives that ran hot and made a lot of noise. Now this tiny little thing that feels like there is nothing inside of it holds FOUR FUCKING TERABYTES! And this thing is mostly useless space of a case material and connectors. Wtf man. https://www.ar15.com/media/mediaFiles/478694/B8305C5E-7D69-46E8-9CC1-C8C8F026D0F4-2457613.jpg Wait until you see the size of M2 NVME drives, it'll blow your mind. What's even more impressive than the size is the IOPS.... we're talking something like 10,000 times the IOPS of a 7200rpm spinner. 
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:38:24 PM EDT
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September 17, 2001
SanDisk 128 MB CompactFlash Card $74.99 July 22, 2022 SanDisk 128GB microSD Card $14.89 Per byte, that's a -99.9999810638611 percent change in 21 years.  Attached File |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:45:08 PM EDT
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Yeah, well, some of us learned to code on Aplle INC'S.
If, then..... H |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:53:11 PM EDT
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Back in the early 80s when I first got into the business, we started out providing large corporate banking customers with physically huge 160MB drives that were rack mounted, 4 to a cabinet. Then later around 1985 or so we went with 300MB drives that were about a third of that size and sold those to the same customers for $30,000 each (seriously).
We had tape drives with tension arms and then upgraded to vacuum columns. Both were very unreliable. We had dot matrix printers where we had to replace individual solenoids and cut & file the length of the pins to the correct length. We went to chip level replacements for just about everything and I actually worked on a punch card reader once. Extremely heavy & large laptops with acoustic couplers that you hooked up to a phone handset were used in the field in the late 80s, early 90s. Hated those. |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 10:54:26 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Laughs in 7.5" floppies.  Laughs in Commodore 64 
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Posted: 7/22/2022 11:10:23 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: And every single one of those has secret programing inside that will make you centrifuges explode, and comunicate directly with the ATF. And all sorts of other shit |
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Posted: 7/22/2022 11:13:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryWhat kinda chip you got in there, a Dorito?
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Posted: 7/22/2022 11:41:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryI remember loading Blue Max and Jumpman with that damn thing. It took forever. Back then you had the plan that shit out. |
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