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Why I am staying *AWAY* from SSDs! | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 01:22:40 |
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Feh. I have the Intel (the X25-M). It's awesome. | by firehawk | 2009-03-31 02:32:20 |
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10,000 writes max | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 02:48:08 |
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addendum: | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 02:56:03 |
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Definetely no replacement for *data* HDs yet. | by aix tom | 2009-03-31 03:01:01 |
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I agree. | by firehawk | 2009-03-31 03:08:47 |
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So you agree with him but not with me | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 03:25:04 |
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What the h%$l is this? | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 03:46:49 |
| A big misunderstanding between two tired people? |
by FNORDer |
2009-03-31 05:43:38 |
The bit about writing versus erasure I get. While writing a file to an SSD does not always necessitate an erasure, writing to a specific page can often require that once the drive becomes sufficiently 'seasoned.' One is not the other, and that appears (to me anyway) to be where you've split the hair.
Secondly, the article does not suggest anything on planned obsolesence, that's a personal opinion, but one I can certainly understand. If you're going to be paying through several orfices for data storage then one would hope that the lifetime of the product you're buying would hold up under average-high usage, when it quite obviously doesn't unless you're planning to dump everything with every upgrade cycle (which is a total waste of resources IMO). That's when the little conspiracy theorist in me starts jumping up and down in a pink fit.
Thirdly there's a question of personal investment here. As a commentator on tehcnology you have an emotional stake in your own opinions when it comes to such things, and as a possessor of an SSD, Firehawk has an emotional stake in this technology. No matter your intentions, in things like this there is bound to be someone in the gallery who disagrees because they have a different perspective on the technology or because they happen to have one. Many's the time I've wanted to punch someone just because whatever sweet shinies I dug up weren't up to the standards of somebody else. It wasn't that their opinion was poorly voiced, or ill-informed it was that it was MINE and I LIKED it when THEY didn't.
Let me put it to you this way: as a confirmed windows user in a linux-friendly environment, haven't you ever had your hackles raised by the knee-jerk windows-bashing that can take place from time to time? Just take a peek up today's board at this thread. Many's the time I recall a flamewar started on a gaming forum just because someone was surgically attached to IE and would suffer no disparagement of their beloved security flaw browser.
This is just a big misunderstanding. You were saying what, to you, were the same things that aix_tom was saying. The bottleneck here is that firehawk was not hearing the same things. There's a little bullet point from NLP I love: 'meaning is the response you get.' and it's a right B5 to wrap your head around that one at the best of times, worse still when dealing in technical terms. Also, there's no way you can counter for that without knowing the other parties in the conversation very well or at least being exceptionally choosy (i.e. bordering on neurotic) about what you say.
Another point to consider is that fixed type is an incredibly dry medium in terms of emotion. It's quite difficult to infer emotion and intent from fixed type, and as a result people tend to interpret all fixed type in terms of their current emotional state. But, this does not stop fixed type from having an effect on said emotional state. So, one comment rubs us the wrong way, and before you know it the world is ending because of a missed contextual cue that you had absolutely no way of putting into a message.
As a final word may I say that I am in no way a diplomat or negotiator and have a terrible fear of even being one because I have a knack of peeving others without ever intending to or realising I've done so (just ask my ex); so if I've ruffled any feathers I'll shut my gob and move on. Generally speaking I find that all conversations are like building houses of cards: if the whole thing turns into a cloud of hearts and clubs it's best to just breathe out and start over. |
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thanks | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 05:59:13 |
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While I am male... | by FNORDer | 2009-03-31 06:07:53 |
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O.o huh? | by jaqie | 2009-03-31 06:12:44 |
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I'd gathered as much. | by FNORDer | 2009-03-31 06:18:40 |
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