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Guest, it's time once again for the massively important and exciting FoH Asshat Tournament!
Go here and give us your nominations!Who's been the biggest Asshat in the last year? Give us your worst ones!
Lanx
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it just feels good to have everything all on the c:\ drive again, now that we have 1tb ssd/m2's
i still have my old 32g ocz ssd's that i put in raid0, not b/c i wanted more speed, but b/c i need the storage space so i could run everquest2 from it.
did it matter? you know what, i along w/ other raid leaders guessed that whomever loaded into the instance first, always got put on the top of the aggro list, since i was the raid leader and mt, and i always loaded first, i never did have any weird ping pong aggro issues.
Axiel
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4 Satas can be connected though the B550 chipset regardless of PCIe lane usage, don't make me post the B550 layout image again!
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Meh still not there dude. At least as a gamer. 1tb goes real quick when games today are 50-100gig, unless you load one, delete, load another, etc....So I put all my shit on a platter, then have the second 1tb evo that I use as my game library, there I keep the games Im playing now, when done they go back to platter or just get deleted depending on game.
Big Phoenix
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Wait a minute, I knew someone who bought 4 of those 36gig raptors to raid zero them back in the day....
Mist
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Oh, I only had 2. Actually I still have them, I use all my old platter drives as weights to keep my foil MTG cards from curling.
But I definitely kept these 2 as an example to myself of money poorly spent.
Fucker
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Lanx
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i always disassemble old hard drives, i keep the bomb ass neo mag (they hang on the fridge)
and for a while i was using the platters as coasters to look cool, but that didn't really work cuz cuz i have a glass table and they just fucking glide over it like air hockey
Brahma
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Lanx
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my first raid was 2, 4gig scsi drives
had to get the big adapatec 2940
that card was like 250 or something in the 90s
then remember when they were just adding ata66 as add-in cards, i believe ata66 was designated as the blue slot while ata33 was black, anyway you can buy a promise ata66 add-in card to use new ata66 ide HD's or, you can solder a resistor to it and make it into a raid 0 card and flash the bios.
that was my first real soldering, is why i remember that.
it was nasty, lulz
pretty sure i was barely competent and soldering like tyrone
had to get the big adapatec 2940
that card was like 250 or something in the 90s
then remember when they were just adding ata66 as add-in cards, i believe ata66 was designated as the blue slot while ata33 was black, anyway you can buy a promise ata66 add-in card to use new ata66 ide HD's or, you can solder a resistor to it and make it into a raid 0 card and flash the bios.
that was my first real soldering, is why i remember that.
it was nasty, lulz
pretty sure i was barely competent and soldering like tyrone
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Kirun
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Yeah, I have Windows on a 256gb nvme, a 500g 970 Pro nvme, and 2 1TB 870 Evo SATA SSDs. I notice almost zero difference in load times between games on the 970 Evo Pro and the 870 Evo. Maybe a second at absolute most and only then it's only games which have notoriously long load times. Games with mostly quick load times I can't tell a difference whatsoever.
I'm pretty liberal with the amount I spend on computer parts (I bought gucci RGB unifans for no reason other than "I could"), but even I can't justify getting half the storage for roughly $50 more in cost, when the load time difference is almost completely indistinguishable.
Xexx
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Lanx
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yea, literally doesn't make a lick of difference, just saw a vid for ps5 comparisons
and there are many videos like this, that for a gamer... no difference
sure file writing/reading and transfering... huge difference tho.
Lanx
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Denamian
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Shit, my first AMD build was one of those slot style CPUs back in the Athlon glory days.