Stay the hell away from the games business all it will do is bring you tears.
Get a CS degree.
If you then want to hang about and learn about games programing go ahead.
But I'll tell you this the games business is a slave ship business.
From the poor abused testers to the poor abused programmers there's little fun,
little pay and a whole lot of mind numbing work.
I replace a drive at the first sign that anything is odd a new noise, errors, or just slowness
from a given drive. I have almost never had the "smart" system catch a drive before it has failed.
I went thought a month of bad hard drive failure. I lost 6 250 gig hd's
They were all purchased at about the same time and they all started failing about the same time.
Drive under in order of reliably based on drive site.
Drives under 120gig I've never had any failures with drive over 200 gigs.
the failure rates I have seen are 1 in 6 after 1 year of service.
Maxtor 250's are some of the worse drives on earth! a 100% failure rate in 18 months
After converting my 6tb array over from those to seagates the failures have stopped.
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Stay the hell away from the games business all it will do is bring you tears. Get a CS degree. If you then want to hang about and learn about games programing go ahead. But I'll tell you this the games business is a slave ship business. From the poor abused testers to the poor abused programmers there's little fun, little pay and a whole lot of mind numbing work.
I replace a drive at the first sign that anything is odd a new noise, errors, or just slowness from a given drive. I have almost never had the "smart" system catch a drive before it has failed. I went thought a month of bad hard drive failure. I lost 6 250 gig hd's They were all purchased at about the same time and they all started failing about the same time. Drive under in order of reliably based on drive site. Drives under 120gig I've never had any failures with drive over 200 gigs. the failure rates I have seen are 1 in 6 after 1 year of service. Maxtor 250's are some of the worse drives on earth! a 100% failure rate in 18 months After converting my 6tb array over from those to seagates the failures have stopped.