Power to the drive is cut in sleep states and power downs. How would that help make your machine feel snappy? Sure SRT and hybrid drives are slower than a pure SSD, but in cases where cost and capacity and physical space are a concern they each have their place. Would you rather boot in 9 seconds and have 120gb, 10 seconds with 1tb, or 45 seconds with 1tb and save a litle cash.
Personally, on my desktop I use a 60gb+1tb SRT and a second 1tb spinning disk for data I want to keep semi-safe from a drive failure. When I first built the machine I timed my boot times between the SSD straight up and SRT and I couldn't even detect a difference with a stop watch. Plus I don't have to worry about space management. Caching works, and fairly well. I'm not sure about their claim of 8gb being enough, but for a general purpose office machine I'm sure it works wonders to make the machine feel responsive.
So, in other words, all of the hyperbole and hand waving from users on forums that was washed aside saying it couldn't possibly be that bad... instead it turns out it's worse.
Even my OC'd 3570k with a 670 in it uses under 300 watts (~290) under benchmarks and demanding games. This is also measured from the wall, and since my PSU is about 85% efficient at that level of usage my computer is actually using 246 watts or so. This means 20 watts for a drive is still going to be 8.1%.
At idle with the drive still spinning my machine is using around 80 watts or so from the wall. My PSU would be less efficient here, probably closer to 80%, which puts actual machine usage at 64 watts, making 20 watts a 31% increase.
I'm not sure of the international agreed upon amount that is falls under the label "jack" . . . but I'm pretty certain this isn't included.
Spin up virtual machines at the office and remote in to them instead (or even right in to your work machine). You don't need to install it on your home machine at all.
The whole point of SRT is to get fast read times, and optionally fast write times if you want to risk your data. It also eliminates the need to actively manage which drives your data is on (as opposed to you putting certain programs on an SSD manually) as it will actively change the cache data depending on your usage pattern. It's works incredibly well for it's intended purpose. In my own testing I could not tell the difference between day to day use on pure SSD vs SRT. It's easy to see if you benchmark it, but boot times and app launch times are essentially the same.
Look at it this way, if you are putting your windows OS on an SSD, why do you care if your KB items uninstalls are accessed quickly? Do you really care that some DLL that never gets accessed in your system32 directory is speedy? All that garbage can sit nicely untouched on your spinning disk while the stuff that you use all the time is fast.
It's the same kind of theory behind why defrag programs for spinning disks like Ultimate Defrag work well since it keeps the stuff you want accessed quickly, and the stuff you don't care about at normal speed.
Who needs anti-aliasing anyway? Just have a couple of shots of rum before you play and disable all the anti-aliasing. You get all the blurry screen with all the performance.
More like they only had three of them in the first place so now it looks like they are selling out everywhere when really there is just a huge supply problem.
I really don't understand why these are any better than a simple grid of images, say 9 or 16, where two of them have something in common but the answers are not obvious from the pictures presented. For instance a grid of 9 animal images where one is a tiger and one is a zebra and the captcha question is "Click two which have stripes", or images of vehicles where one is a bulldozer and one a tank and have "Click two which drive on tracks, not wheels.".
I have this same device, no modifications from how it came. It runs on my 15Mbps down 1515Mbps up fiber with 2 laptops, Wii, Media Player and 2 Desktops just fine. We do lots of torrent traffic, Netflix, online games . . . the regular computer geek family stuff. It's been working like a champ. I got it to replace an Asus RT-11n that for some reason didn't like our devices but worked fine at another persons house for them.
I use All-Way sync. Every machine I build has 2 hard drives in it, not in a RAID. The second drive is only used for backup. The sync app moves data from my important directories every night to the second drive, and every once in a while when I feel like it's needed they also sync across to another machines backup drive in the house. I also keep a drive at a friends house for my really important data and every once in a while copy to that too. It's fairly simple, it works well, and I haven't lost important data in years.
Are you sure? In my case a 10 minute car ride becomes a 40-45 minute commute by walk/bus (each way). I would consider a 350% increase outside the norm, but unless you live exactly on the route that connects you directly to where you are going (which mine does, no connections, and literally stops at the door of my work) then I would guess that generally a bus commute would be twice as long as the car equivalent. I spent spring and summer one year taking the bus, but since I'm in Canada when winter came around the family wasn't having anymore of my forcing them to walk everywhere.
You're just not using them right.
CFLs should not be placed in enclosures with no air flow, anywhere that there are extreme temperature fluctuations, anywhere that there are high on/off cycles, anywhere there are below freezing temperatures, anywhere they would be exposed to moisture, or on any circuit that could have power fluctuations. I've had one turned on at the bottom of my basement stairs (because you can't see and there is no switch at the top) since I moved in my house 3 years ago, it's been on the whole time. Yes, this light has been on for more than 20000 hours. Every other one in my house has been replaced with incandescent because they are far cheaper and last about the same amount of time in the enclosure or position that I use them since the CFLs all died in a year or less.
I was thinking about e-mailing them about this yesterday, but then I though that's probably why they are doing all their sample video in bright light. Rather than boost the ISO they can just adjust the shutter speed by one or two stops to compensate for the lower amount of light hitting the sensor. Though what I find funny is that DXOMark rates the 5D Mark II with a dynamic range of 11.9EV (essentially 12), so if they widen the range by 4 stops they claim to have 16EV of range. Yet if they just went with a Nikon D3X they would have 13.7EV range already. Which begs the question, exactly how much range is considered normal dynamic range and how much is considered high dynamic range?
If you combine two images from a small sensor camera that can capture 10EV of range, and crank it up to 14, is that HDR? That's pretty much the same range as a single D3X . . . so is the D3X the first consumer HDR single shot camera?
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Power to the drive is cut in sleep states and power downs. How would that help make your machine feel snappy? Sure SRT and hybrid drives are slower than a pure SSD, but in cases where cost and capacity and physical space are a concern they each have their place. Would you rather boot in 9 seconds and have 120gb, 10 seconds with 1tb, or 45 seconds with 1tb and save a litle cash. Personally, on my desktop I use a 60gb+1tb SRT and a second 1tb spinning disk for data I want to keep semi-safe from a drive failure. When I first built the machine I timed my boot times between the SSD straight up and SRT and I couldn't even detect a difference with a stop watch. Plus I don't have to worry about space management. Caching works, and fairly well. I'm not sure about their claim of 8gb being enough, but for a general purpose office machine I'm sure it works wonders to make the machine feel responsive.
So, in other words, all of the hyperbole and hand waving from users on forums that was washed aside saying it couldn't possibly be that bad... instead it turns out it's worse.
Even my OC'd 3570k with a 670 in it uses under 300 watts (~290) under benchmarks and demanding games. This is also measured from the wall, and since my PSU is about 85% efficient at that level of usage my computer is actually using 246 watts or so. This means 20 watts for a drive is still going to be 8.1%. At idle with the drive still spinning my machine is using around 80 watts or so from the wall. My PSU would be less efficient here, probably closer to 80%, which puts actual machine usage at 64 watts, making 20 watts a 31% increase. I'm not sure of the international agreed upon amount that is falls under the label "jack" . . . but I'm pretty certain this isn't included.
Spin up virtual machines at the office and remote in to them instead (or even right in to your work machine). You don't need to install it on your home machine at all.
The whole point of SRT is to get fast read times, and optionally fast write times if you want to risk your data. It also eliminates the need to actively manage which drives your data is on (as opposed to you putting certain programs on an SSD manually) as it will actively change the cache data depending on your usage pattern. It's works incredibly well for it's intended purpose. In my own testing I could not tell the difference between day to day use on pure SSD vs SRT. It's easy to see if you benchmark it, but boot times and app launch times are essentially the same.
Look at it this way, if you are putting your windows OS on an SSD, why do you care if your KB items uninstalls are accessed quickly? Do you really care that some DLL that never gets accessed in your system32 directory is speedy? All that garbage can sit nicely untouched on your spinning disk while the stuff that you use all the time is fast.
It's the same kind of theory behind why defrag programs for spinning disks like Ultimate Defrag work well since it keeps the stuff you want accessed quickly, and the stuff you don't care about at normal speed.
That's because it's incorrect. You can set the SRT mode to either ensure data security or faster write times depending on your needs.
Can someone come up with some sort of foot ball field to AU conversion chart or something?
play a game?
fire 192 beams in to a target area of 2mm without crossing the streams?
Except of course if you do it without manipulating the data and erasing any that doesn't fit with your agenda and then conveniently losing it all so that FOI requests can go in the bit bucket you end up with a chart more like this: http://www.uni-mainz.de/eng/bilder_presse/09_geo_tree_ring_northern_europe_climate.jpg
My god man, you're looking at the wrong end! Flip it over before HR walks in and you have to go to sexual harassment training again.
Even better is "Khaaaaaaaaaaaan!" . . . How could you NOT remember that? 23.89 million centuries . . .
Who needs anti-aliasing anyway? Just have a couple of shots of rum before you play and disable all the anti-aliasing. You get all the blurry screen with all the performance.
More like they only had three of them in the first place so now it looks like they are selling out everywhere when really there is just a huge supply problem.
They have uncovered frozen Mammoths with semi-tropical plants in their stomachs - undigested.
Citation Needed.
I really don't understand why these are any better than a simple grid of images, say 9 or 16, where two of them have something in common but the answers are not obvious from the pictures presented. For instance a grid of 9 animal images where one is a tiger and one is a zebra and the captcha question is "Click two which have stripes", or images of vehicles where one is a bulldozer and one a tank and have "Click two which drive on tracks, not wheels.".
I have to disagree. I only wonder how Aperture science will use this against us^W^W to better humanity.
I have this same device, no modifications from how it came. It runs on my 15Mbps down 1515Mbps up fiber with 2 laptops, Wii, Media Player and 2 Desktops just fine. We do lots of torrent traffic, Netflix, online games . . . the regular computer geek family stuff. It's been working like a champ. I got it to replace an Asus RT-11n that for some reason didn't like our devices but worked fine at another persons house for them.
I use All-Way sync. Every machine I build has 2 hard drives in it, not in a RAID. The second drive is only used for backup. The sync app moves data from my important directories every night to the second drive, and every once in a while when I feel like it's needed they also sync across to another machines backup drive in the house. I also keep a drive at a friends house for my really important data and every once in a while copy to that too. It's fairly simple, it works well, and I haven't lost important data in years.
"Yes, they may take a bit longer (20%?)"
Are you sure? In my case a 10 minute car ride becomes a 40-45 minute commute by walk/bus (each way). I would consider a 350% increase outside the norm, but unless you live exactly on the route that connects you directly to where you are going (which mine does, no connections, and literally stops at the door of my work) then I would guess that generally a bus commute would be twice as long as the car equivalent. I spent spring and summer one year taking the bus, but since I'm in Canada when winter came around the family wasn't having anymore of my forcing them to walk everywhere.
You're just not using them right. CFLs should not be placed in enclosures with no air flow, anywhere that there are extreme temperature fluctuations, anywhere that there are high on/off cycles, anywhere there are below freezing temperatures, anywhere they would be exposed to moisture, or on any circuit that could have power fluctuations. I've had one turned on at the bottom of my basement stairs (because you can't see and there is no switch at the top) since I moved in my house 3 years ago, it's been on the whole time. Yes, this light has been on for more than 20000 hours. Every other one in my house has been replaced with incandescent because they are far cheaper and last about the same amount of time in the enclosure or position that I use them since the CFLs all died in a year or less.
I was thinking about e-mailing them about this yesterday, but then I though that's probably why they are doing all their sample video in bright light. Rather than boost the ISO they can just adjust the shutter speed by one or two stops to compensate for the lower amount of light hitting the sensor. Though what I find funny is that DXOMark rates the 5D Mark II with a dynamic range of 11.9EV (essentially 12), so if they widen the range by 4 stops they claim to have 16EV of range. Yet if they just went with a Nikon D3X they would have 13.7EV range already. Which begs the question, exactly how much range is considered normal dynamic range and how much is considered high dynamic range? If you combine two images from a small sensor camera that can capture 10EV of range, and crank it up to 14, is that HDR? That's pretty much the same range as a single D3X . . . so is the D3X the first consumer HDR single shot camera?
Just use a CRT.