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No matter how you look at it, SSD's have a higher failure rate than hard drives, and until they get that problem fixed, I'll be sticking with my 7200 RPM drive......-Tinman57 (May 14, 2013, 08:52 PM)
that sounds like a reasonable statement to me-mouser (May 14, 2013, 12:47 PM)
Me too ... But I'm not a hardware guy either. I was under the impression that (seek time being roughly fixed) latency was reduced by the higher spindle rates...which resulted in faster access times.-Stoic Joker (May 14, 2013, 02:40 PM)
It's not so much he's wrong about 10,000 RPM being faster than 5400RPM - depending on what is meant by "faster.". But it's a mistake to simply equate raw spindle speed and cache size with disk performance, which is what he seems to be implying.-40hz (May 14, 2013, 03:14 PM)
Partitioning, I/O distribution on the disk, I/O bus width, cluster size, filesystem(s) used, and several other factors have a much more direct and measurable effect on overall performance than just the spindle speed or cache size.-40hz (May 14, 2013, 03:14 PM)
that sounds like a reasonable statement to me-mouser (May 14, 2013, 12:47 PM)
New Prenda Law Shell Corp Threatening to Tell Your Neighbors You Pirated Porn
http://yro.slashdot....ors-you-pirated-porn-TaoPhoenix (May 14, 2013, 10:19 AM)
SSDs, and solid-state storage in general, have a disturbing tendency toward binary functionality.-The Article
service termination timeout is out of admissable valuesThis sounds like the crap advise you'd expect from hoax-systemscanners.-HankFriedman (May 09, 2013, 12:12 AM)
I'd get a second opinion, by using one...-Ath (May 09, 2013, 03:51 AM)
Data should be cached on end-user computers and the caching should be intelligent enough to predict what data the user would likely need next and download it from the cloud in advance. The cloud should work even if the connection to the whole internet is severed and only connections to local computers remain. If the data is on any of the local computers, it should be accessible.-vlastimil (May 09, 2013, 04:48 AM)
u know, I've been noticing that the media seems to insist that the benefits of subscription cloud services are "undeniable". And I'm getting really annoyed by it. Not because there are no benefits, there are. But the way they say it, it makes it sound like the local installation does NOT have any benefits. And those who don't understand the differences hear this and it seems like it is gaining momentum.-superboyac (May 08, 2013, 03:28 PM)
what their down time is ... I need to ensure that everybody between point A, and point B stays just dandy so my company's down time doesn't spike us right into the toilet. Because if a drunk hits a pole up the street from me, and the local utility company doesn't get it fixed really soon... Guess what? My company is blind as a bat trying to function .. Regardless of whether or not the "cloud" is allegedly construed as being "up" (I'm still getting fisted).I'm also guessing Microsoft and Intuit will wait until to see how much pushback Adobe actually gets. (I'm predicting they'll get very little.)-40hz (May 08, 2013, 06:24 AM)
Apparently Mohoro will be a way to use the Windows desktop in a software-as-a-service way, dubbed "desktop as a service."-kyrathaba (May 02, 2013, 07:16 AM)
My guess is that Pay-Pal's "Log Me In" will probably be a sight better in terms of security than the others, given the nature of Pay-Pal's business model and their already-in-use encryption and other security measures. However, the only log-me-in I've used is Facebook's. And only for site's where security isn't paramount (Goodreads, for example).-kyrathaba (May 01, 2013, 11:38 AM)
We learned first thing next day that we wouldn't be getting the contract. She sent us a fax.-40hz (April 30, 2013, 02:52 PM)
Yeah, I want to see this too. I was never all that worried about the memory usage, but MS Sec Essentials chews through a lot of cpu for me especially when booting.-TaoPhoenix (April 30, 2013, 12:58 PM)