Why does everyone call the SSD a meme?

Please stop making shit threads, thanks

Dumb frogposter

>>58587188
Because they are.
Give me 1(one) use for them.
"The OS boots faster on a SSD" is not an use.

>>58587188
_Some_ people call SSD a meme because they can't afford them. It dropped my ThinkPad's boot time from 15 minutes to 35 seconds.

>>58587198
basically this

>>58587188
You're spending too much time on this anime website if you think that.

>>58587188
Thats a beatiful woman.

paid shills by the hdd industry

>>58587219
Some people need a laptop and have a life as well, you know?

If your watercooled battlestation has an average uptime of 50 hours that's your user case, not everyone's.

>>58587188
Everything is called a meme.

It doesn't mean anything.

>>58587219
read caching,
databases,
more io

>>58587261
>yfw memes are memes that are starting to become their own meme

>>58587219
It uses less power, lighter, isn't as shock sensitive, quiet, no moving parts, all good things, especially if you have a laptop (it will also be MUCH faster than a 5200 laptop drive)

>>58587188
Because it's too fast. Nobody need to have files that fast. Anyone who think they do is tricking themselves.

spindle hdds were bottlenecking CPUs for decades

>>58587272
dont all storage drives have a general purpose cache?

Because they don't have SSDs.

I went back to my old PC which I'm selling soon with that hard drive I used, and holy shit it's unbearable in comparison. Every laptop or desktop I use now that only uses a hard drive now feels like it's a decade old.

Yo

Which is the most powerful thinkpad I can buy for cheap that I can put 8gb of RAM and attach a SSD to?

>>58588237
you don't specify size or anything.

T400/T420 NEXT

>>58587301
>>>58587301
THESE

>>58588263
True. I'm alright with any size. I'm even willing to bring 17" with me as long as it's good.

>>58587301
>mfw fell for ssd meme
:)

>>58587188
Is this picture a meme now?

>>58587188
Companies with a lot of backstocked HDDs are shilling on /g/. Simple as that.

People have been surviving for thousands of years off of hard drives ever since the invention of the wheel and axle, if you go SSD, you are choosing to use a lesser quality rectangular disk, after all, would your car run on square wheels?

I put hard drives in a Debian box for storage and installed debain on the hard drives and even shit like apt upgrade slow the box to a crawl.

Solid state drives are pretty much required nowadays unless you like waiting on disc IO

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>>58590656
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>>58590656
[spoiler]test[/spoiler]

>>58587188
It's a meme because it's actually a good one.

Now go get one and see the light.

>>58587188
>implying anyone at all calls SSDs a meme
>implying everyone is not trolling everyone else on multiple levels

quality thread you waist of dubs

>>58587231

emma stone

>>58591785
yes

nobody calls SSD a meme take your shitposting elsewhere

>>58587506
>Were

>>58587188
I love this picture because I know a troll, shitpost or just something blatantly silly is about to be said.

>>58591785
she's ugly as fuck

looks retarded

>>58592100
ssd is a meme, nice waste of money you fucking retard

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while ssd's are bitchin' and i own three of them, they cost more now than they did over a year ago and won't be cheap enough to replace HDD's until like 2020.

i'm pretty sure it's done intentionally by the HDD makers sandbagging SSD/nand prices. SSD's were getting too cheap too fast so instead of losing their rotating disk game overnight the big HDD makers are gonna slowly change over to SSD manufacturing.

don't be suprised to see WD and Seagate start buying up smaller SSD brands in the next two years if they haven't already, i believe some have already.

>>58587219
Everything is faster because every process touches the drive regularly.

>>58587219
Multitasking on an HDD is painful. All kinds of work that requires I/O will benefit from an SSD. Wanna open up a program while installing something? Enjoy waiting if you don't use an SSD.

>>58592424
take that back right now you faggot

>>58592424

>waste of money

spotted the core 2 duo/1600x900/windows xp fag.

>>58587219
faster boot times + overall faster responsiveness + no chance of data loss from drops or other sudden shocks

literally the only thing worse is that they cost more; ssds are better in every single way

not on topic but why aren't there 3.5" SSDs? bigger footprint allows for more storage space, no?

>>58587188
Because shitposters have long overrun this entire imageboard and there are no real discussions anymore, just people posting bait and retards believing it.

>>58587518
Yes, but they are referring to a drive used as cache not the cache on a drive.

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>>58587188
DUMB EMMA CUNT POSTER

>>58587231
>Thats a beatiful woman.
Too bad she has the mind of a retard.

>>58591785
>emma cunt
ftfy

>>58592424
>she's ugly as fuck
AGREED

>>58587307
>speeding up your operating system is a meme
>severely reducing load time for heavy programs is a meme
>accessing big files faster is a meme

>>58587219

Everything is faster
Uses less electricity
More likely to survive a drop

Basically the only advantage HDDs have in 2017 is price/GB.

>>58592849

there's enough space for like a petabyte in a typical 2.5 inch ssd, it's not an issue of space.

it's an issue of ssd memory prices and availability.

>>58592950

as much as i like ann coulter, she's still a fucking coalburner. even if her husband is cool.

>>58593079
why not multiple smaller capacity chips in a bigger space, then?

>>58593099
she's not married. never was and has never had kids.

>>58587188
You mean to tell me that a SSD is faster but damn near same price of a HDD, but it's a retarded purchase? You get proven faster speeds and a good capacity for like 150-200 bucks and you complain?

I though /g/ appreciated it when technology advances. I can't believe I've been here long enough to see this Idiocracy.

>>58587219
Faster, less prone to physical failure, more energy efficient, better garbage collection to avoid spying, etc

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>>58587188
SO. If i resume correctly SSDs,
-You boot faster so you don't have to wait 2 min at startup, that's good.
-if you kick your drive in the nuts there's a chance it survive. That's also good.
-its quiet, very good when you need a quick nap while installing 3 apps at the same time.

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>>58593182

that's how shit works already, you just pay more for the higher capacity.

i mean how do you think we have 64 GB ssd's and 2 TB ssd's in the same form factor? we just cram that shit in there. and it's nowhere near max capacity.

also with time we will get smaller processes/die shrinks/whatever you want to call it in nanometers which means more capacity in same space.

also the whole thing about SLC vs MLC vs TLC where you can use the same x amount of space to store more than 1 bit of data.

think of it like ram sticks, 2 GBB sticks are the same size as 8 GB and 16 GB sticks. space is hardly an issue with computing, though die size limits are somewhat of a thing.

HBM as 3D vs 2D vram is a similar concept. just like with cities, you build upwards when there's not enough ground to build upon. then you go from stairs to elevators to high speed elevators.

If you're still using HDDs at your only form of storage you're just a retard.

I bought a 1TB SSD a couple of years ago and it's one of the best purchase I've ever made. Used it in a laptop and now in a PC. It's built rock solid, is insanely fast, and very easy to install.

Seriously it used to take me 5+ minutes just to boot Windows with an HDD. With a SSD I boot in 10 seconds. On top of this, loading programs like Photoshop and Cubase now takes no time at all and my load times in games are lightning fast.

I have a 2TB HDD sitting around on the shelf but haven't even bothered installing it. The ONLY reason to use a HDD is if you already have a SSD as your main drive and just use the HDD to store a shit ton of movies/data and want a better price.

>>58587301
Does it really use less power? That might be reason enough for me to make the switch.

>>58593899

>The ONLY reason to use a HDD is if you already have a SSD as your main drive and just use the HDD to store a shit ton of movies/data and want a better price.

fair point. the more i know about SSHD's the more i think they're better storage drives even for us hardcore users unless you're RAID'ing, which i find nowadays is more of a commercial interest than autistic desktop user interest.

all of my old 1 and 2 TB drives are filling up so for a hundred bucks i might just go with a seagate 2TB SSHD as a stop gap until 2 TB SSD's come down in price. i'm not a data whore so another 2TB is plenty, though i really wish 4 TB drives had come down in price in recent years.

as for bang/buck the refurb'd 3 TB drives from HGST are hard as fuck to resist for non-critical data. basically 20 bucks a TB. they are all old server drives but as i always say with used computer parts, they proved they worked and that's more than a new part on the shelf ever proved.

>>58593899
>Seriously it used to take me 5+ minutes just to boot Windows with an HDD. With a SSD I boot in 10 seconds.
Seriously i'll never understand this argument.

It used to take me 5+ minutes just to boot windows, me too, and now its like 60 seconds. But i still use an HDD. I wonder what's going on ? Maybe with an SSD it'll take 10 seconds but then i will never have the time to take a piss.

>>58587257
>has an average uptime of 50 hours
What fucking faggot only has an average of 50 hours?

>>58594114
>not using piss bottles

They call it that because they haven't played paradox games like hoi4 or ck2.

>>58594134
But i cant do that, its messy. And then my cat always fucks everything up at the most inapropriate time.

>>58594158

>piss bottles AND cats

every time I think I'm pathetic I remind myself that this fag exists.

>>58594156
HOI4 doesn't take that long to load on my HDD? The only thing paradox games need is a strong processor.

>>58594158
>But i cant do that, its messy.
No, it isn't. Just get a gallon jug with a screw top

>>58593933
You can run one on a USB port without needing a power source like most external HDDs. They are pretty much glorified flash drives, just better in every way.

>>58587188

Because they people are retards.

>>58594314
I find gallons take too long to fill up. I hate removing the cap because my piss starts to smell terrible after an hour.

>>58592444

WD did buy out SanDisk a while ago.

>>58594827

yeah that's what i was thinking, couldn't remember who bought who.

think about it, a spinning drive company buys a non spinning drive company, and surprise! prices for non spinning media go up!

>>58595068
you're wrong

>>58595079
o... oo rly... I guess I never considered whether that pic was a popular meme on /tv/.. mm.. mabad...

>>58587219
An SSD is better an a HDD in every way except price.

>>58587188
>everyone

>>58587213
kek

>>58587188
they are better than an hdd in all ways except for price and storage capacity.

>>58587188
Because NVME is 5x faster and only poor people use SSDs now

>>58594156
kek, the autosaves are killer after a few hundred years

>>58597012

>MUH ENVY ME

that's fine for one or two drives but your'e retarded if you spend more than a gpu on ssd's.

with current prices you should just get a 250-500 GB SSD and >wait

>>58597363
or get a job and not be poor

>>58597449

my cpu and gpu's are worth more than yours and i make more money than you do.

yet i don't rub it in to poorfags.

fuck off.

>>58594133
this
>>58587257
my shitty dell inspiron prebuilt has been on for about 30 weeks

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SSDs aren't a meme

>>58590904
waste*

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i've noticed a performance boost so no they aren't a meme

>>58594369
Don't smell it then. Problem solved. FFS, stop looking for stupid excuses to not but an SSD

>>58594325
So can a 2.5 HDD...

>>58597506
being a poorfag, I appreciate people like you.

>>58587219
>"The OS boots faster on a SSD" is not an use.
Everything loads faster, not just the OS. Rotational Latency is a real thing when you're trying to execute huge programs (photoshop, xcode, etc) in a reasonable amount of time.

>>58599024

i mean i'm poor relative to the standard that /g/ has, i can't afford a 1080 and a 7700k and a z270 mobo with a 2 TB ssd and 3000 mhz ddr4 ram.

instead i use top shelf items from 2-4 years ago.

>>58587219
>"The OS boots faster on a SSD" is not an use.
It is a use you faget

>>58587506
>were
They still do. Even a 7200 rpm drive will cause some I/O bottleneck due to rotational latency and seek time.

SSDs solve all these problems.

>>58588237
X220 or T420. X series is a little more recent.

>>58599071
Lol, I have a prebuilt that has a Celeron J1800 and the mobo doesn't even have a slot for a discrete gpu. I barely scrounged enough money to buy half my parts list between textbooks and other college fees.

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>>58587188
/thread

>>58599559
rip my sides, 1998-2017

>>58587188
>SPONTANEOUS
>NAND
>FAILURE

>>58587188
It's a throwback to early SSD's.
The meme is now about ironically referring to their meme status from literally 10 years ago.

You have to compare them to the available 10k/12k drives at the time where they were...
>Slower than 10k's in RAID 0 (at first).
>Highly unreliable compared to HDD.
>Absurdly expensive per GB compared to HDD, in particular at their introduction to consumer market. It made no sense whatsoever for 99% of consumers.
>So small they were nearly useless, 32 GB was considered a "large" SSD. HDD were up to 750GB at the time in enterprise.
>You could literally have built a giant drive array that would be fault tolerant, store more, and be faster in speed than buy a consumer SSD. This is still true in some cases today.

If seek time wasn't absolute shit on HDD's they would have taken forever to catch on in the enterprise and high performance database market. Them being a high-end replacement for 10k/12k drives is the only reason they were capable of gaining traction. Keep these points in mind when you begin to think about Optane/XPoint because the exact same thing is likely to happen.

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>>58599573
>1998

>>58599573
>1998
holy shit, people born in 1998 are adults now

My HP prebuilt has been turned on for 4 years now

>>58600279
>My HP prebuilt has been turned on for 4 years now

And I only ever turned it off back then to boot into a ussr windows version

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>>58599559

>>58587257
>>58594133
>>58598952
Why leave your computer on all the time wtf.

>>58587188

It helps me remember the day I first got an SSD.
That was a good day.

>>58587219
Christ my dude, how do all those (you)s feel?