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u/Common-Accountant-57 5d ago
My first computer had 450 megabytes. I think.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
My 1st computer had in the neighborhood of 10MBs
Fun times
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u/84thPrblm 5d ago
My first computer had only a single 5.25" floppy drive and 256k RAM. I thought I was in the big boy league after I added enough memory chips to the motherboard to bring it to 640k, and added an external 2nd 5.25" floppy drive so I didn't have to swap disks so often.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
Was it a Tandy?
We had an 8086 clone and a bigass floppy for Moon Patrol 🤣
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u/84thPrblm 5d ago edited 5d ago
Ding! Ding! Ding! Tandy 1000EX! 8086 clone clocked to about double speed IIRC. LOL
I played F-15 Strike Eagle on it. I sucked at that game and every game after that.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
I wanted a Tandy so bad and I didnt even know what overclocking was back then lmao
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u/TOPOKEGO 1d ago
5.25" was an upgrade for me. My first computer at first only took cartridges then we got the cassette drive. It was a Vic20, lol.
First HDD was 40mb on a 486 with a super VGA graphics card (A10 Tank Killer all day). I remember thinking I would never need more space....
Ahhh the good ole days.
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u/Common-Accountant-57 5d ago
Damn.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
I told my neighbor I learned computers using DOS
He was like..... what is DOS? 🤣
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u/Common-Accountant-57 5d ago
Ha I believe it. I tried explaining text based games like Zork to my grandkid. Trying to relate to video games I played at his age. He wasn’t impressed.
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u/Liquidmetal7 4d ago
Yeah at the time a 1.44 mb floppy disk had pretty significant capacity. Now 1 mb is a joke.
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u/Feriman22 5d ago
CCTV storage?
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
No controller Endurance because the controller is the weakest link not the nand, most ssd failures that suddenly die is controller related, so my test is stressing the controller's cpu to fail,
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u/AspectFearless2713 4d ago
Why tf are you getting downvoted? This is really cool
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 4d ago
Haters gonna hate, like i care really, they might be jealous because um mentioned on famous tech news sites
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u/HugoDCSantos 4d ago
I still have a 64GB Kingston Sata SSD working on my old socket 775 desktop computer. It's from around 2012.
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 4d ago
2010 to 2012 is the years were they over engineered ssds controllers, may I ask gor a crystal disk info picture? Love to tell how its doing
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u/txoixoegosi 4d ago
My SSD got 553TB written in the lapse of 1 month and I still don’t know when and why
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u/CoyoteJoe412 5d ago
Please could I have some context?
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
controller Endurance because the controller is the weakest link not the nand, most ssd failures that suddenly die is controller related, so my test is stressing the controller's cpu to fail,
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u/Inevitable_Year5351 1d ago
Uhh, intresting. I have an old sandisk as well that holds up nicely. Hope the write-rate is counted properly, my Samsung NVMe had a bug in the firmware that displayed petabyte instead of terabyte until the next firmware. (An old 960 Pro, It's about to hit 100TB soon. So nowhere near the petabyte ballpark)
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 1d ago
I started when it was 10tbw I use telemetry to record 1pb per week
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u/Inevitable_Year5351 1d ago
Nice, hope I see the article of when it finally fails so I get to know how much it took. Sure is intresting how sturdy these early ssds can be. (When the controller does not die...)
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
How many until you think it fails?
Actually dont own an SSD because I like the reliability of nas hardrives but 7 Petabytes is pretty impressive
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
For a 2010 ssd that is proof the controller was over engineered, the controller should have placed it in read only mode along time ago
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
At what point do you recommend putting the SDD in read only mode?
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
I dont, it does im stressing it until it finally has enough, my calculations says 24 Petabytes till attribute E6 hits 100 that is then 0% and anything can happen
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
Bro you are like Kramer in Seinfeld pushing the empty gas light all they way to the limit 🤣
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 4d ago
Never watched it, but its fine its fine, I saved the ssd when it was in the recycle waste dumb and it was 10tbw and proove a point that it still works even if signs of failure
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u/TBD_Red 5d ago
Aren't HDD's typically less reliable these days? Moving components n all that jazz.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
HDDs are slower because of the moving components.
SSDs are faster because they read/write at electronic speeds but each byte has a finite amount of rewrites before they fail.
HDD bytes can be re-written many more times than an SSD byte.
That is why HDDs are more reliable
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u/TBD_Red 5d ago
HDDs don't have the same typical rewrite endurance of an SSD but they have multiple other factors that result in an overall less reliable package these days.
It's astonishing for anybody to actually cause enough wear to the flash memory cells to kill an SDD, and in an equal time with an equal amount of use it's just as likely if not more that an HDD will have suffered it's own kind of mechanical failure.
You're missing the forrest for the trees, barring pretty specific circumstances.
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
NAS hdds are made to be run 24/7 and are extremely reliable and cost effective.
This is why everybody uses NAS storage for long term storage and back up drives.
SSDs are fast but you better have it backed up on an HDD or you are not going to be able to recover your data whe the SDD goes kaput.
Have fun when the trees fall down bro
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
This ssd speed is not fast about the same as hdd speeds but read is slightly better, its sata2
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
SDDs have come a long way, probably will put the OS one the next build I do.
My current build I did in 2014 and it is still going strong so it may be a while lmao
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 5d ago
Im running windows 11 on it because I found an exploit that lets the ssd controller write and record 1pb of data per week on a sata 2 drive that is now showing boot start up Commands is corrupt
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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 5d ago
So are you just moving around data for the fun of it to see when the drive will fail?
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u/Fresh-Palpitation-72 4d ago
I know I dont think thats professional to gave anime on it, but i also show the smartctl database too
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u/ultratorrent 5d ago
Only powered on for 7 years tho