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Legendary Silke December 4th, 2015 9:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 9021517)
That or else wait for Skylake to make it into regular PCs.

They're getting there. They always do. It's just that it's so early for Skylake.

I just replaced a failing Seagate HDD from a netbook and put a spare Toshiba inside. At least the netbook should keep going for a while.

Also managed to sell that, albeit at half the street price. It was otherwise lying there, so... :)

Tsutarja December 4th, 2015 9:37 PM

Can I just say that downloading Linux distros through torrenting is much faster than direct downloading? :P haha

Legendary Silke December 6th, 2015 2:52 AM

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9022186)
Can I just say that downloading Linux distros through torrenting is much faster than direct downloading? :P haha

I usually find much better luck with a nearby mirror over HTTP. Then again, my ADSL connection prevents me from going beyond 4 Mbps. And the upload speeds are pathetic.

Still waiting for FO service to roll out here.

Tsutarja December 10th, 2015 7:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 9029617)
I almost kinda wish we had a section here for reviews. That'd be really neat to see.

I would love to see more product reviews in here myself, but nobody does them enough to warrant it :(

Legendary Silke December 10th, 2015 8:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9029852)
I would love to see more product reviews in here myself, but nobody does them enough to warrant it :(

I would totally love to get a brand-new small laptop and review that. :P

Tsutarja December 11th, 2015 8:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Team Fail (Post 9029892)
I'm considering doing one for my laptop now that I've had about a month to play around with it and see how it can handle, but I'd have to get some time for that first.

Cool! I'd love to see a writeup on your laptop for sure!

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Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 9029897)
I would totally love to get a brand-new small laptop and review that. :P

Perhaps you can review an already-owned device? :)

Sonata December 12th, 2015 12:02 AM

How does one actually do a legitimate in-depth review of a device? I mean, I've had my desktop for about 2 or 3 months now and if I was going to write a review for it I'd probably get as far as "it works good for everything i need it for, can't hear it over my computer and it never smells like its about to burst into flames. A-ok"

Circuit December 12th, 2015 4:34 AM

I could also jump on the review bandwagon with the desktop I currently have (self-built) and a Desktop I'm building for my family for Christmas. Like a comparison of the two builds :D

Speaking of the Christmas computer, all the components are arriving back in England so I'm extremely happy about that, since I was worried some wouldn't make it in time for Christmas.

Tsutarja December 12th, 2015 6:22 AM

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Originally Posted by aeternum (Post 9031601)
How does one actually do a legitimate in-depth review of a device? I mean, I've had my desktop for about 2 or 3 months now and if I was going to write a review for it I'd probably get as far as "it works good for everything i need it for, can't hear it over my computer and it never smells like its about to burst into flames. A-ok"

Basically just a list of the features, pros/cons, and what you like about the device is all that a tech review is.

For a detailed example, here's a review Engadget has on the Moto X from last year: http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/11/moto-x-review-2014/

killer-curry December 13th, 2015 4:18 PM

After 3 days 2 night camp, I finally came back to home. Well, I had a duty for controlling public audience system. I used my friends laptop and found out that SSD is damn fast. Although the hard disk space is very small, the speed is X10 faster than HDD.

The laptop is acer aspire Windows 8.1 with 1,8Ghz dual core Core i-5 and Geforce 710M ( It's worse than Radeon 6670 lol)

Tsutarja December 13th, 2015 4:27 PM

SSDs are killer and I really wish I had money to afford one with 500 GB :P

Of course, I just always like going with more space than what I need just to make sure that I never run out.

Legendary Silke December 14th, 2015 12:53 AM

Whatever your storage device is, as soon as your usage exceeds capacity, it immediately fails any possible consideration since it won't do the thing you need it to do. Might as well as get something with plenty of storage and live with some amount of sluggishness if that's the case.

Of course, if you can install more than one storage drive without giving up on anything, that'd be ideal!

killer-curry December 14th, 2015 6:57 AM

Well i have a laptop and a desktop. The desktop has 4 hardrive slot so i might plan to install 2 SSD and another HDD.

About the laptop, well... its horribly slow. It has 80GB HDD which has slow writing speed. It takes minutes to boot up laptop and programs. The processor however quite ok ( Intel Pentium Dual- Core T2390 )

But is it possible to change the hdd to ssd? Well i gotta buy 80 to 100 GB SSD one.

Legendary Silke December 14th, 2015 7:26 AM

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Originally Posted by killer150 (Post 9034726)
Well i have a laptop and a desktop. The desktop has 4 hardrive slot so i might plan to install 2 SSD and another HDD.

About the laptop, well... its horribly slow. It has 80GB HDD which has slow writing speed. It takes minutes to boot up laptop and programs. The processor however quite ok ( Intel Pentium Dual- Core T2390 )

But is it possible to change the hdd to ssd? Well i gotta buy 80 to 100 GB SSD one.

You should be able to for most laptops that come with a HDD in the first place. A 120/128 GB SSD should be a relatively easy drop-in replacement.

However...

Your laptop has a 80 GB HDD in the first place. One does wonder if the storage controller supports SATAII and AHCI, let alone SATAIII...

killer-curry December 14th, 2015 7:39 AM

Well the laptop is a 2008 model and i guess it does not support sata 2 version ......

By the way more hard disk means faster?

Dter ic December 14th, 2015 2:21 PM

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Originally Posted by killer150 (Post 9034758)
Well the laptop is a 2008 model and i guess it does not support sata 2 version ......

By the way more hard disk means faster?

80GB just refers to the storage size. When looking for speed you want to look for the RPM's (e.g. 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM) at which the drive operates if it's a typical HDD. SSD's use flash memory which don't have moving parts inside and are faster than normal HDD's.

speccy can tell you if it's a SATA 2 drive if you're unsure.

Tsutarja December 14th, 2015 2:45 PM

Speccy is a wonderful program to check the details of your computer specs and I would really recommend that as a true program to check specs at any given time.

Not to say that CPU-Z and GPU-Z are bad programs either.

Legendary Silke December 16th, 2015 5:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Dter ic (Post 9035171)
80GB just refers to the storage size. When looking for speed you want to look for the RPM's (e.g. 5400 RPM, 7200 RPM) at which the drive operates if it's a typical HDD. SSD's use flash memory which don't have moving parts inside and are faster than normal HDD's.

speccy can tell you if it's a SATA 2 drive if you're unsure.

The speed of the HDD is also related to its areal density, so these older drives that have a low areal density will be appreciably slower than a current-generation drive of similar speed.

That does nothing with regard to random access, for the most part, though. For that, you want 7200 RPM or SSD. Even a 7200 RPM drive is enough to not make things feel awful, compared to a 5400 RPM drive.

I finally changed all the wallpapers I use! I think I got tired of my old one.

Tsutarja December 16th, 2015 8:08 AM

Are there any computers still manufactured with 5400 RMP HDDs these days? Seems like most are now 7200 RPM now.

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Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 9037022)
I finally changed all the wallpapers I use! I think I got tired of my old one.

Screenshots or it didn't happen :)

donavannj December 16th, 2015 8:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9037149)
Are there any computers still manufactured with 5400 RMP HDDs these days? Seems like most are now 7200 RPM now.

I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.

Tsutarja December 16th, 2015 8:30 AM

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Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 9037161)
I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.

Hmm I guess it would make sense for lower-end models because they probably wouldn't need to take advantage of 7200 RPM.

Hopefully sooner or later SSDs can became standard and more affordable at larger sizes.

Legendary Silke December 16th, 2015 8:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9037149)
Are there any computers still manufactured with 5400 RMP HDDs these days? Seems like most are now 7200 RPM now.

Screenshots or it didn't happen :)

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Originally Posted by donavannj (Post 9037161)
I think the cheapest of the cheap-end laptops definitely are. And probably still most low to midrange laptops in general, though I haven't typically been looking at RPMs when shopping for laptops for work since we just go with the same model nearly every time anyway just so it's all standardized.

In fact, if there's a HDD in a laptop, it probably is a 5400 RPM HDD. Seagate no longer makes 7200 RPM laptop drives; WD does, but it tops out at around 750 GB. There's also HGST and their 1 TB 7200 RPM drives. 5400 RPM HDDs are just much more common among laptops.

7200 RPM HDDs are standard when it comes to desktops, though, but you can also get 5400 RPM HDDs. It's just that it's probably not worth it to get a 5400 RPM unless you're going to use it strictly as data storage.

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9037163)
Hmm I guess it would make sense for lower-end models because they probably wouldn't need to take advantage of 7200 RPM.

Hopefully sooner or later SSDs can became standard and more affordable at larger sizes.

Maybe in a few years... I don't like how things that need to be stored just keeps getting bigger. At least we're getting somewhere - there used to be a time where 240/250/256 GB SSDs cost a grand.

I'm still sorting out things on this burner laptop right now while I prepare for travel to China.

donavannj December 16th, 2015 9:23 AM

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Originally Posted by Twiggy (Post 9037185)
7200 RPM HDDs are standard when it comes to desktops, though, but you can also get 5400 RPM HDDs. It's just that it's probably not worth it to get a 5400 RPM unless you're going to use it strictly as data storage.

I... kinda already knew that, though? 7200 has been the standard in desktops and custom PCs for over a decade. I think every single desktop I've had has used 7200 RPM drives if the drive was SATA, dating back to my first in 2005, which was a hand-me-down that my dad had built in 2003 after he built himself a new one.

Tsutarja December 16th, 2015 2:13 PM

I really need to get a CD binder and label each and every one of my discs. I was trying to search through a pile of CDs/DVDs for a Vista install CD I made, and I found it thank gosh.

Oh, and I'm reinstalling Vista on my old Compaq laptop for the umpteenth time. For some reason, svchost.exe likes to really leak memory no matter how many times I reinstall Vista on it.

Legendary Silke December 16th, 2015 6:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Zach (Post 9037445)
I really need to get a CD binder and label each and every one of my discs. I was trying to search through a pile of CDs/DVDs for a Vista install CD I made, and I found it thank gosh.

Oh, and I'm reinstalling Vista on my old Compaq laptop for the umpteenth time. For some reason, svchost.exe likes to really leak memory no matter how many times I reinstall Vista on it.

Tried checking if it still does that after installing all pending updates?


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