I'm a cuck who bought one of these and now I'm desperately

You can watch 4k porn off them no problem

Video editing

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HD Anime BD Rips

>>55217143
>you have .5 tb of storage for mih vidya
>1tb of torrents

>>55217143
Put your games on it so they load fast? I dunno.

>>55217157
I wish, If I do it'll be on a 1366x768 X220.

>>55217143
I don't see what the problem is. Put it in your computer, use it, and forget about it.

>>55217143
>850 Pro

I bought a cheap 1TB TLC SSD for 200 USD.

It helps with loading times in my video games.

>>55217143
>buy what you need
>do not buy based on greed
>do not buy based on peer pressure
>1TB of SSDs are for filthy rich people, not for normal users
You ignored the warnings. Now you can bathe in the tears of regret.

Alternatively, you spent $200-$300. In the grand scheme of things, that is not exactly the wealth of a nation that you wasted. You overspent by ~$100. No big deal, dude.

>>55217204
But then I won't be using it to it's full potential, it just feels like such a waste.

>>55217143
>Do you have any use for this amount of storage space /g/ while still needing to be accessed quickly, and if so what is it?
Nested VMs.

Great for a laptop with only 1 HDD bay

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>>55217143
Thanks, sempai

>>55217236
Feels like a waste to use a product? Are you feeling ok? You are not considering suicide, are you?

>>55217264
heh

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>>55217264

>>55217143
3d rendering

that amount of storage allows you to create content that can get you riches

>>55217143
it'd be good for fast rainbow tables

I've been dying to get my hands on one of those PCI-E Intel SSDs, the 1.2TB models in RAID 0 could easily decrypt A5/1 on the fly

>>55217143
Buy more and run a fast and efficient server.

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>>55217233
>>1TB of SSDs are for filthy rich people

$300, filthy rich

my sides

>>55217296
>rainbow tables
why not use a ram disk?

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>>55217143
time is money, yo

>>55217143
I'm using half that for games alone right now, and I have a pretty small games library compared to some people. I don't even have the standard 800 hours of torrented music and 2TB of torrented hentai that some of these fuckers on /g/ have.

>>55217196
Downscaled is better than upscaled.

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>>55217352
>using a SSD for hentai and music

>>55217143
Why did you buy a 1tb SSD if you don't even know what you were going to use it for? Are you fucking joking?

>>55217378
>he has spinning disks in his nearly silent mini ITX machine

>>55217390
A bad impulse decision, I have poor self-control.

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Get on my level son. I bought these when they first came out too, $1,500 for both.

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>>55217288
Struck down harder than Ron Sullivan

4k JAV

>>55217407
And what did you end up using them for, beyond typical OS and media storage?

>>55217437

Nothing beyond video games and porn.

>>55217437
8k porn textures for skyrim

>>55217405
Dammit OP

>>55217143
If I trimmed my music collection I could fit all my shit on an 256GB SSD. Just store everything on an SSD, reading your precious movies won't wear it down.

>>55217143


Get 4 256gb SSDs and Raid 0 them and put your Steam folder on it.

>>55217350
Because they are fuckhuge? Why even bother with small ones.

>he doesn't store music on his SSD
Enjoy waiting a solid second to play a track.

>>55217449
>>55217473
>>55217450
This is going on a Linux machine, as such most of my vidya is going to be Nethack, Doom, and Dwarf fortress. Is there strong linux support on steam?

I could really use that much fast storage. I would install a bunch of software vst's (virtual musical instruments). Some of those vst's can be 50GBs just for a single patch. Playing an orchestral score with a high end VST for every instrument part would use a boatload of memory, i can easily see using 400gb at a time casually. My favorite piano vst alone is a 45gb sample library, for a single grand piano voice

>>55217160
Pretty much this, my girlfriend works in advertising at a media company and she needs a mac, needs heaps of SSD storage, needs 32GB of ram and needs a fast processor. You don't need this kind of set up for games or data hoarding.

If you're getting paid by the hour it ends up being cheaper being able to render large files more quickly rather than paying employees to sit around browsing reddit/4chan/tumblr instead while waiting for shit to finish

>>55217505

It's pretty decent, now, and getting better.

You also have WINE which is pretty capable if you're willing to put some effort into configuring all that shitfest.

>>55217143
I suggest you buy 64 GB of RAM, just so all that extra storage space can keep up ;^)

>cuck

BTFO

>>55218037
>using the smiley with a carat nose

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>>55217401
>he has a mini-ITX

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>The fuck are you supposed to do with 1 Terabyte of storage

dunno man...

I considered buying a 120GB SSD when I saw them for $30 to store my OS.
Then I realised I only turn my computer off about once a month

>>55218730
Who are you quoting?

>>55217236
>But then I won't be using it to it's full potential

You are a normie consumer, _nothing_ you own will likely ever be used to its full potential.

>>55217348
Still though even if you are making more than the top 95% of people after taxes that's like 6 hours of working. So it's not that cheap

>>55219294
>SSD only affects boot times

Thanks for the replies everyone. I think now I have a better idea about what I'm going to do with all that space and speed.

>>55217143
You are RETARD

>>55217143
You have to be a massive idiot. Why the fuck would you buy hardware without knowing in advance for what you would use it?

Install your gaymes on it, faggot.

>>55219271
I have about 16TB but it's in RAID 1 since I'm such a paranoid fuck over losing digital files so each increase cost's 2X.

Do you have any kind of backup system in place?

>>55217255
I put one in my old SATA2 laptop and it's like the difference between night and day. Best purchase I ever made.

>>55217358
truly under rated comment

>>55217352
I could fill at least two with my various applications since I have slow internet and it takes forever to reinstall stuff since nobody puts everything on physical install disks these days.

>>55221514
Yeah

>>55217264
joke's on you samsung doesn't have real tech support

>>55221589
RAID isn't a backup.

>>55217536
>needs 32GB of ram and needs a fast processor.
Not really. You can edit 4K video on a fucking MacBook.

>>55221950
The MacBook plays games with the footage to achieve that speed like re-rendering the footage into ProRes in the background, if you dont want to transcode before working with your files than the extra ram and processor help a lot.

And even then, the more you can store in system memory, the better. The 2015+ MacBook can get away with less ram because its PCIe based SSD has writes of like 2+ GBps or something crazy like that.

>>55222007
>into ProRes in the background
So?

>>55217264
Oh shit this nigga just stole your hard drive.

>>55218837
What's wrong with that?

>>55222118
>>55217288

>>55221630
>SATA II
Oh son.
Hahaha, I did that too and I'm not even mad that it's only SATA II because it still makes a world of difference

>>55217401
How loud are they? I have a 500 gb ssd in my build and just picked up a 1TB hard disk just because they're dirt cheap. Will I regret the noise? Or will it make me feel nostalgic?

>>55221931
This

>>55222361
Man I love that sound... it's like an old muscle car engine. WD drives are the juiciest.

>>55222386
My WD Black sounds like someone holding a sharp piece of metal to asphalt as they go 70 mph down the road.

>>55219355
Considering I waste half an hour of my pay just for shitting 6 hours is nothing. I literally earn such a thing by shitting for about 7 workdays.

>>55222625
>My WD Black sounds like someone holding a sharp piece of metal to asphalt as they go 70 mph down the road.
That's not really a healthy sound.

I've had no HDD for the past 3 years.
Just these 2 drives:
- 256GB 840 Pro for Windows and games
- 1TB 840 Evo for consuming media

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>>55217143
>He fell for the SSD meme

4 year old HDD, never been able to max it out.

>>55217405
Suck my cock

>>55217407
2TB is for plebs, waiting for red pro 8tb

>>55217473
Horrbile idea, one fails and all the data is lost.
Just get one good one and that be it

>>55217173
Where you getting yours?

SSDs are a meme.

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All my games are on this refurb SSD I got on deep discounts.

Not only do I have this 4tb red almost filled up but I got about 12tb of loose hard drives full of shit.

>>55217631
Use windows for gaming faggots>>55218037

>>55217264
Holy fuck BTFO!

>>55217143
I use one for fast loading vidya. I also told myself it would load my 25k+ picture folder faster on the Windows file manager, but that isn't the case. At least Lincuck doesn't have this problem.

>>55221589
Raid is more for data loss not backup.

If you lost files by deleting them on one drive, they would get deleted on the other drive at the same time.

>there internal SSDs
>one 120GB for OS and programs
>one 1TB for samples
>one 1TB for more samples
>two external SSDs for even more samples
Being a music producer is tough desu.

>>55223033
Oh, and the two external ones are both 500GB.
Affordable 4TB SSDs when?

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>>55223049
I can't wait until enterprise shit comes to consumers. Fuck, I'd love to replace my six 4TB zpool with two 16TB SSDs in RAID 1.
>mfw the future is so far away

>>55223103
Same.
I'll use the SSDs I have now for backup or fucking around with new cheap builds just for fun.
Only 3 more years, I hope.

>>55217143

I dont have a use. Until ssds get cheap enough to replace the 4tb hdds in my nas my 500gb is all i need.

>>55217160
Also this. You dont need it professionally? Then you dont need it.

>>55217143
Hey, I'll take it if you don't want it, man. Really, I wouldn't mind helping you out of this very serious predicament you're in. I'll bite the bullet and take one terabyte of solid-state disc off your hands, no problem. I don't mind.

>>55217143
Nope, can't say I'd have any need for that much space, and I regularly encode Blurays. All I'd need is 256GB for all my muxing needs.
Now if one would only come up on Craigslist for $20.

>>55221931
>RAID isn't a backup.
You're right. It's better than a backup. The only way you'll lose data is if you fuck up and manually delete it, you don't need to worry about bit rot for the SSD since it always has power to it and you don't need to worry about the grease in the hard drives drying out.

>>55223242
* well shit, there's two 500GB 850 EVOs for $75 ea.
Too bad I have $31.

>>55223293
Dont lie on the internet

I had to choose between a mobo with an m.2 port or a u.2 port. I choose the m.2 one. Did I fuck it up?

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On a scale of 1 to bullshit How much bullshit is Toshiba spouting?

>>55217233
>filthy rich
/g/ obliviousness in a shellnut

>>55217143
Use it for all the mad gaymen broooooo.

>>55223368
Eventually there won't be hard drives but just massive quantities of RAM I hope.

>>55223368
First point is absolutely correct

Second point is just marketing stuff

>>55223355
Have fun with your backups. SSDs start losing data after about a month with no power.

>>55217143
My obessive hoarding fills up drives quickly

>>55223368
>>55223453
This, stacking and downscaling memory chips is fairly easy with modern technology.

>>55223440
saying that ram is like SSDs is like saying that hard drives are like floppy discs

>>55222792
It's normal though. I've heard various other reports of this

>>55222941
https://www.nyaa.se/

>>55223822
>saying that hard drives are like floppy discs
Those are similar, retard. It's nothing like comparing RAM to a SSD.

>>55222968
>>55217288

>>55217193
this, problem solved

t. owner of two 850 Pros (128 GB each)

>>55223440
My vision for the future of computing is a grand unification of memory, sorted by a hierarchical tier of speed:

Fast and expensive
>Registers
>L1 cache
>L2 cache
>L3 cache
>RAM
Non-volatile starts here:
>XPoint / non-volatile RAM
>NVMe NAND / fast flash
>Platters / bulk flash
>NAS / NFS / RBD
>Online backup / cloud
Slow and plentiful

Right now you can sort of approximate this by using swap + layered bcache + networked block devices with online synchronization

But in the future, I wish for even the programming abstractions to go away

I'm surprised to see that its manufactured in South Korea. Samsung have moved quite a bit of the cheapo production into China. Its almost impossible to find any recent LCD panel of Samsung or LG made in Korea.

>>55217143
use it as your primary drive. good dammit. there is nothing wrong on fast and spinless storage.

On what? I don't know, what do you use a computer for?
Porn, music, movies, games, tv, anime
????

>>55223293
>two mirrored drives is better than backup
Yeah until you fuck up your files and the changes are immediately mirrored or until your machine shits the bed and fucks the mirrors, or a myriad of other things.

RAID
IS
NOT
A
BACKUP

>>55217358
>truly under rated comment
truly downscaled comment

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>>55217143
>850 Pro
Good.

1 TB is a lot, wanted one but never did it as I only install games I never play on it.
>>55217209
TLC is shit. I'll buy a 1000 GB NVMe PCI when I upgrade my CPU in 2018.

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Which one of you retards is this?

>>55225732

That's so cheap that why do you even fucking ask???

>>55225938
Not me. I bought the overpriced 840 Pro back in 2014 and have been ever lucky with it. It has 20 TBW but still performs similar to my newer 850 Pro I run in the same system. No performance loss at all.

>>55225963
>Just launched
>Dispatched from China

>>55217143
I have 700gb of music, 2tb of HD movies, the same amount again for seeding torrents, 50gb of photos and 300gb of games and software. So yeah I have 1tb ssd for music and photos (without ssd my music player takes a fucking age to load my entire database) and 512gb m.2 950 for os and software. The rest are on WD reds. I'd like a 2tb ssd for my movies when they come down in price.

>>55217401
>he doesn't have a server filled with spinning disks

>>55222883
>he fell for the SSDs are a meme meme

>>55225985

Ahh, my bad. Didn't read through.

>>55217143
>1GB=1,000,000,000 bytes
but their disclaimer doesn't mention the definition of “1TB”. Can I sue them now?

>>55226203
>without ssd my music player takes a fucking age to load my entire database
That's just because your software is shit. I have 2.4 Tb of music and mpd has zero problems with it.

>>55226351
1TB ≠ 1TiB

>>55226383
But why do they have a 1GB definition disclaimer on the product?

>>55226407
To ensure you know they're talking about GB and not GiB

>>55226365
I saw your mistake anon

Install lots of games. It's really the only reason to use a SSD anyway.

>>55226424
>>>/v/

>>55226422
But they don't mention GB anywhere on the product, just TB. Why do they define GB and not TB? That's what has me confused.

I mean it's obviously some sort of legal disclaimer, but can't you use the fact that they didn't technically define TB on the box as the same legal stick?

>>55226457
>But not being x86 means it's of limited use to us.
You're obviously stupider than they thought, they were doing it to avoid confusion.
>can't you use the fact that they didn't technically define TB on the box as the same legal stick
Go ahead and try, you're just going to wind up wasting money on legal fees.

>>55226452
What are you on about?

>>55226373
I've tried most software, still the same, I'm pretty sure it's because I have very large high quality artwork for every album, what software are you using?

>>55226499
You're saying games are the only thing an SSD is good for so I'm telling your dumb ass to go back to >>>/v/

Why would anyone buy a huge ssd? I can get behind buying a 120 or 250 GB one but 1tb? Nah

>>55226567
There is no reason for the average user to buy one at all, but it makes sense for gamers to buy ones that large. Games are taking up ridiculous amounts of space these days.

>>55226482
Why would there be any confusion about the meaning of the SI prefix ‘G’ which has been established for decades?

I mean, it's not like they're defining what the ‘V’ in ‘5.0V’, the ‘A’ in ‘1.5A’ or the ‘S’ in ‘IOPS’ mean - these are well-established SI units that anybody with an even remotely educated background will understand. Yet for some reason they choose to define the ‘G’ in ‘GB’. Why?

>>55226602
It doesn't even make sense for them, it's a waste. Just keep a few of your most played games on your SSD and the rest on HDDs. You can always move them around if you start playing a different game more.

>>55226567
If you have the money why not? It's made a difference to me, as even for small files like photos, although obviously not life changing.

>>55226500
>what software are you using?
>>55226373
>mpd has zero problems with it.

Also, I measured it - it takes about 214ms for me to restart mpd in the middle of playback:

systemctl --user restart mpd  0.00s user 0.00s system 1% cpu 0.214 total

(I hear a short audible interruption but that's about it)

>>55226620
That's way more hassle than it's worth, especially if you want to have a bunch of games ready at a moments notice. You are basically paying for convenience.

AAA games take up A LOT of space

>>55217143
Video and audio editing, loading large programs and data sets, etc.

It's alright if you're gaymen but basically a necessity if you're doing actual multimedia work.

Sorry I've never heard of mpd, I'll have a look though. The issue isn't the application opening, it's things like fast scrolling through takes time to catch up, artwork view takes time to load multiple artworks etc. Just little things I know, but it annoyed me enough to splash some cash, seeing as music is my passion I seemed it a decent investment.
>>55226645

>>55226619
To avoid situations like this. Obviously it didn't work too well. Just drop it and carry on you fucking mong.

>>55226682
No, it's really not. There's nothing wrong with loading games off an HDD. Hell I load most off my NAS.

>>55226735
Try comparing loading something heavy like Arma 3 or modded Skyrim between ssd and HDD, I'd never go back to HDD.

>>55226722
Nah, it's going into a X220 with Linux on it so all vidya should be pretty light. Although I think it'll help with loading the IDE I have lined up as well as just having a lot of space for media storage.

>>55226726
>Fast scrolling
Oh, that would be a front-end thing and not a player thing.

mpc listall > /dev/null  0.02s user 0.00s system 55% cpu 0.047 total

Takes me about 47 ms to list every song in the database. Scrolling up or down should be a piece of cake in any even remotely well-written program unless you literally have millions of songs (which I doubt).

I can hold down the page down button in my mpd front-end (vimus) to zoom through the pages of the list of songs without any problems...

>>55226619
Because there are two different GBs.

>1,000,000,000 bytes

-or-

>1,073,741,824 bytes

>>55226774
I would.

>>55226831
Do you also get lost because you mistake a km for 1024 meters? What about a TeV for 1099511627776 eV?

>>55226831
There aren't two different GBs. There's a GB, and there's a GiB.

>>55226870
>The term gigabyte is commonly used to mean either 10003 bytes or 10243 bytes. The latter binary usage originated as compromise technical jargon for byte multiples that needed to be expressed in a power of 2, but lacked a convenient name. As 1024 (210) is approximately 1000 (103), roughly corresponding to SI multiples, it was used for binary multiples as well.

>In 1998 the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) published standards for binary prefixes, requiring that the gigabyte strictly denote 10003 bytes and gibibyte denote 10243 bytes. By the end of 2007, the IEC Standard had been adopted by the IEEE, EU, and NIST, and in 2009 it was incorporated in the International System of Quantities. Nevertheless, the term gigabyte continues to be widely used with the following two different meanings:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte

>>55217143
Dual-boot/triple-boot OS?
Install games and apps for zero load times?

I have a 250gb SSD and I think its too small for me, 1TB would be great.

>>55226919
>requiring that the gigabyte strictly denote 10003 bytes and gibibyte denote 10243 bytes
Exactly, you fucking twat.

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>>55217143
I have no use for a drive that large (yet), as it just isn't necessary for me, and because of that, not worth the bump in price.

>>55217143
how much did it cost you?

>>55217193
>>55224720
> I saved 2 seconds loading the next level!
> Totally worth it!

Good goy.

>>55226996
read to the end, faggot:

>Nevertheless, the term gigabyte continues to be widely used with the following two different meanings:

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i have one for OS and one for GAYMZ

>>55227043
Yeah, just like kleenex means tissue, doesn't make it 100% accurate just because everybody says it, you fucking /v/ tier dipshit.

>>55217143
Man, games, lots of games!
I have 2TB of games on HDD's and only a 256GB SSD for storage (128GB SSD for System) and I have to pick which games I use on the SSD, copy, delete and move them all the time.

>>55227038
Fallout 4 for example loads 45sec on a HDD but only 5sec on a SSD, there's even utube videos for that.
I guess multiplayer games it's even better if you load fast, gives you more time to prepare for the game once loaded, pick guns, skills, etc.

>>55227087
>utube

>>55227069
>Yeah, just like kleenex means tissue, doesn't make it 100% accurate just because everybody says it
No shit, Sherlock. What other words of wisdom will you bestow on us. Perhaps, you would like to let us know that water is indeed wet.

>>55222912
HGST already have 8TB (He8), in non-SMR, and 10TB, in both SMR (Ha10) and non-SMR (He10).

Why would you go for the Red Pro?

>>55227110
Hey I'm just pointing out how shitty your points are. Don't get mad at me just because your argument's falling apart you piece of shit.

>>55227100
Here's your (You), unironically.

>>55217143
Bittcoin minor.

>>55227128
It's not falling apart. You are just proving you are a retard. See: >>55226422
>To ensure you know they're talking about GB and not GiB

The entire point is that both are referred to as GB in common usage. Feel free to keep trying to argue semantics to save face though.

>>55227171
Yes, they're both thought of as GB. My point is that it's not right, which you've already posted proof of. Goddamned moron.

>>55227187
Doesn't matter if it is technically correct or not. It is common usage, and that is why the disclaimer is on it, which is what this entire conversation is about. Common sense also tells you that coffee is hot as fuck, but that didn't save McDonald's from getting sued for millions.

>>55227270
Whatever you say faggot. Now go back to >>>/v/ already.

>>55226973
Oh shit, you're right. I should dual boot. Thanks anon!

>>55227291
>not even pretending anymore
>maximum damage control
Lol

>>55217143
If you can't find a use for it, send it my way.

>>55227362
Pretending what? You're obviously too dense to understand my argument so I've simply given up and told you to go back to your containment board.

>>55217264
>downloaded a hard drive
THE MADMAN

>>55217143
I just got one because I didn't want to have a bunch of drives for different types of media. I just need the SSD for windows and anything I'm working on and a HDD for storage.

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>tfw i struggle to fill a 16gb ssd

it never goes below 2gb left

i think the largest bit of storage i own is a 500gb hard drive in a laptop i dont even use anymore

>>55227445
How old are you?

>>55227445
I went a few years with nothing but a 16GB SSD in my laptop, even used Windows 8 so that was like 80% of the capacity off the bat

>>55226817
OK, cheers for the advice, although I've already cured it with an ssd, I'll still look to that faster program see how I get along with it.

>>55217264
This is why I always blank out serial numbers whenever I post photos.

>>55225821
>TLC is shit. I'll buy a 1000 GB NVMe PCI when I upgrade my CPU in 2018.
For constant writing sure.

But everything else it's quite good.

Not to mention all I do is play video games. I don't do any professional work on my $2000 PC.

>>55227445
>>55227675
How? My desktop alone has about 2TB of storage which is full, my server has 4TB which is about 30% full.

>>55227861
I really don't know, things sure have changed over the last few years. Now I've got ~7TB in a server and adding another 4TB soon. This was even before I had a server, so all I had was either inaccessible or on that 16GB SSD.

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>>55217264
> a funny post on /g/

>>55217264
Kek, if you'd know where OP lived you could claim he stole it from you.

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>>55227445
Do you even know how to use a computer?

>>55217143
>1 TB
>a lot of storage
WUT?

>>55228272
>>55217288
Read the filename

I bought 2 "new" crucial SSDs, 120GB + 256GB for cheap. turns out they are "reconditioned". did I fuck up? if so, how badly?

>>55217143
>while still needing to be accessed quickly, and if so what is it?
I got two reasons:
A few hundred GBs of PDFs and postscript that must be searched quickly for text strings.
Strace logging.

>>55217143
No, I would never buy a 1TB SSD. Even when SSDs get to the point where they're the same price per gigabyte as a hard drive, I'll still only buy 250GB drives for the OS and then a storage HDD.

If nothing else, simply for the fact that anything I'm storing that takes that much space both doesn't need to be fast, and I can't "afford" to lose. Long term storage should always be on a hard drive because even if it dies you can scrub data off of it.

>>55221589
I'm the guy you responded to, yes I do - I have a "backup_pool" of 21TB, that is brought online and rsynced weekly by an arduino.

As others said, RAID isn't backup :)

>>55234548
>get ssd life
>check ssd life
>see how long ssds will live
>come to your own conclusions