Cheap $300 laptops these days slap in a 500GB HDD to satisfy the requirement of a hard drive. A basic 500GB disk is what they can source cheaply and easily from the market. However, I suspect that they could ship a smaller capacity disk as well, if that allows the manufacturer to shave off some of the laptop's price. What follows is, that I also suspect that when making a 128 GB SSD becomes cheaper to manufacture than a mechanical HDD, many low-end laptops will move to the SSD format.
Another OS that has dropped support for 32-bit architecture. This is probably not an issue for most users as 32-bit processors are less common these days. If you have an older machine with a 32-bit processor, you can't slap on the latest and greatest *nix OS.
Thanks to the underground cabling, in Finland the last time I witnessed personally witnessed a power outage was in 2006 in thunderstorm, lasting for 2 minutes.
I can confirm this. In Finland you get premium electricity in most places. On the other hand, the amount of "sick" buildings is cropping up: there's moisture in structures, improperly configured ventilation, poor heating, and whatnot.:( But hey, you get proper power to read Slashdot.
The problem is that the SSD cache of a hybrid disk is quite small; you can approach the same amount with your file system cache in the RAM, and it's faster anyway.
The change is coming and once the Spindle drive disappears (like floppies), you'll wonder how we ever lived like that.
I already wonder that when I see my system sitting 99% time in iowait if a modern CPU is paired with any mechanical HDD. It's an almost unacceptable bottleneck.
You must be joking. Mechanical hard disks do not have wear leveling. They only have some extra space to remap some individual failed sectors. The media of a mechanical HDD does not really wear out anyway.
Linux is community based and more attention results in faster response.
Hah hah! That is no guarantee. Very often the "response" is just crickets chirping. The actual benefit of Linux is that you can hire your own engineers to write code to the kernel or other open source components.
As far as I know, it's a Windows-only malware. There's some technical details in F-Secure's blog. Of course a Linux or FreeBSD version could also be created, as there is plenty of vulnerabilities in those operating systems too.
Newer codecs would still have inflated the hardware requirements. H.264 takes more crunch than MPEG-2. However, as you point out, the main problem is that the YUV overlay is not used in web browser video players. One can see the difference when he downloads a video from YouTube with youtube-dl or plays it via MiniTube: the CPU usage is much lower.
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That's an interesting question actually. Can we make a cryptocoin that is anonymous? Or at least more anonymous than Bitcoin?
Cheap $300 laptops these days slap in a 500GB HDD to satisfy the requirement of a hard drive. A basic 500GB disk is what they can source cheaply and easily from the market. However, I suspect that they could ship a smaller capacity disk as well, if that allows the manufacturer to shave off some of the laptop's price. What follows is, that I also suspect that when making a 128 GB SSD becomes cheaper to manufacture than a mechanical HDD, many low-end laptops will move to the SSD format.
They know that it increases page hits when everyone comes to complain about Bennett.
Why is Intel HD Graphics called "i915", by the way? In my mind it always reminds of the 915G chipset from a decade ago.
Another OS that has dropped support for 32-bit architecture. This is probably not an issue for most users as 32-bit processors are less common these days. If you have an older machine with a 32-bit processor, you can't slap on the latest and greatest *nix OS.
PC-BSD also dropped 32-bit support a year ago.
Oh, I guess I was thinking it more from the perspective of a typical consumer. In enterprise environments, tape of course kicks ass.
Indeed. I cringe when people archive data on flash memory, for example.
That was 20 years ago.
So? It's still pretty good.
I have 1X DVDs going back to 99/2K that still read too, that is what happens when you don't buy crap brands.
This. I don't understand why people shun optical media so much. When a good burner and a good disc is used, it's still a great archival medium.
Thanks to the underground cabling, in Finland the last time I witnessed personally witnessed a power outage was in 2006 in thunderstorm, lasting for 2 minutes.
I can confirm this. In Finland you get premium electricity in most places. On the other hand, the amount of "sick" buildings is cropping up: there's moisture in structures, improperly configured ventilation, poor heating, and whatnot. :( But hey, you get proper power to read Slashdot.
600TB total writes - http://techreport.com/review/2...
800TB total writes, and some of these consumer grade drives start to fail - http://techreport.com/review/2...
I know, it's amazing. :)
Actually that story seems to still continue with two of the disks approaching 1.5 PB written.
The problem is that the SSD cache of a hybrid disk is quite small; you can approach the same amount with your file system cache in the RAM, and it's faster anyway.
The change is coming and once the Spindle drive disappears (like floppies), you'll wonder how we ever lived like that.
I already wonder that when I see my system sitting 99% time in iowait if a modern CPU is paired with any mechanical HDD. It's an almost unacceptable bottleneck.
True. In the same way that it is hard to increase the rotational speed, getting past the average 12 ms seek time is tricky.
Not in meaningful amounts.
You must be joking. Mechanical hard disks do not have wear leveling. They only have some extra space to remap some individual failed sectors. The media of a mechanical HDD does not really wear out anyway.
So what? A meteor could crash on your computer too. RAID still offers extra protection against loss of data.
That has nothing to do with using RAID or not. Even normal backups wouldn't survive that, unless they are in a fireproof container or stored off-site.
Linux is community based and more attention results in faster response.
Hah hah! That is no guarantee. Very often the "response" is just crickets chirping. The actual benefit of Linux is that you can hire your own engineers to write code to the kernel or other open source components.
A content-aware firewall made of rubber is the professional solution.
As far as I know, it's a Windows-only malware. There's some technical details in F-Secure's blog. Of course a Linux or FreeBSD version could also be created, as there is plenty of vulnerabilities in those operating systems too.
Newer codecs would still have inflated the hardware requirements. H.264 takes more crunch than MPEG-2. However, as you point out, the main problem is that the YUV overlay is not used in web browser video players. One can see the difference when he downloads a video from YouTube with youtube-dl or plays it via MiniTube: the CPU usage is much lower.
I suspect Dice doesn't do nearly as much datamining as Google.
Uuhh, nerd rage. Sent from mother's basement and spoken out with a nasal "young Bill Gates" voice.