Search results

F
What could HTC have done differently?

Finally put a proper camera on their flagship phone. M7 was ok for it's time. M8 was a step backwards and the M9 is bad compared to something like a S6 (I have both to compare) That bottom bezel is annoying too, if you have to have it then why not do something useful with it, like capacitive...
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Nov 1, 2015
- Forum: Mobile Devices
F
Status of TRIM on Linux?

I just run fstrim every month, but would be interesting to know for sure.
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- Dec 4, 2014
- Forum: Open Source
F
EBay item: Is this SSD about to die or should I keep it?

It's a x25-M G2, so 5K write cycles is the spec. So if you take a conservative 2 WA factor you would have used ~800 write cycles. It would be better if Intel provided NAND writes info in smart, cause then you can tell if the drive was smashed with a very high random write work load (the WA...
- F1shF4t
- Post #7
- Aug 2, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Does A Person Really Use Over 1TB Of Storage

Well just to begin 700GB+ of family videos/photos, then 4-5 backups... Yeah adds up!
- F1shF4t
- Post #70
- Jul 15, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
does the 840 PRO/EVO have built in OP?

All SSDs already have spare area, ranges from 7% and up. There is no need to set any extra OP unless your workload requires it, and we're not talking normal workstation/gaming/internet use here. Also with every OS that supports Trim your effective OP is the amount of free space you have.
- F1shF4t
- Post #4
- Jul 9, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Linux to linux file sharing, why is this so difficult??

I use IP addresses of the nas boxes to browse to them and then add the location to favorites. (I use static IPs) Something like "smb://192.168.XXX.XXX/" or "smb://192.168.XXX.XXX/myshare"
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Jun 16, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
F
you guys i gotta admit, i'm a bit spooked over this whole Russian/Crimea situation..

OP I find it funny that you came to that conclusion, but seeing what the media is showing it’s not surprising. It is rarely black and white and the whole situation is much more complicated. You should probably read up on the events of what’s happening before being paranoid. The...
- F1shF4t
- Post #86
- May 1, 2014
- Forum: Politics and News
F
How badly did you get hosed on your first SSD?

First two SSDs bought were ~500AU for 80GB G1 x25-m and ~440AU for 120GB Falcon. Expensive but well worth the price. The quietness and performance were jaw dropping coming from a raptor.
- F1shF4t
- Post #37
- Apr 28, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
SSD and ESD

Don't touch the SATA pins and you're golden.
- F1shF4t
- Post #4
- Apr 6, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
AMD Smoother than Intel?

I upgraded from a 1090T to a 2500k and my experience was largely the same as when I changed from a P4C to an A64. In heavy threaded workloads the 1090T felt much more "smoother" (if you must) and more responsive. However where single threaded performance mattered (for example an extreme case...
- F1shF4t
- Post #200
- Mar 31, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
F
Battle of the CPUs

Where's the VIA option??? :P But seriously the best cpu is the haswell i7 in my lappy cause that's the one I use :awe:
- F1shF4t
- Post #20
- Mar 25, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
F
Crucial vs Samsung Solid State Drives

Either one is a good choice. Personally I prefer the Crucial due to the power loss protection built in.
- F1shF4t
- Post #6
- Mar 24, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Why does intel gimp some of their CPU lines?

Here's one example from a few years ago which fits in the whole "does not make sense" market segmentation. (And something that annoyed me before) Celeron SU2300 - Has VT-x Pentium SU4100 - No VT-x Core 2 SU7300 - Has VT-x Why is that the more expensive and higher performing model is...
- F1shF4t
- Post #80
- Mar 18, 2014
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
F
Crucial M550 - Any info?

Yep, just ordered a 960GB one. $100 bucks cheaper than what I would of got in Australia and $200 cheaper then the same sized evo.
- F1shF4t
- Post #4
- Mar 17, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Data on NTFS compression impact on SandForce SSD's expected life? Should I enable it?

Drive life is not something you should worry about unless you're planning to write the contents of the whole SSD numerous times a day. Biggest effect will be on speed. Sandforce SSD is faster when reading/writing compressible data. Effectively you will be reducing performance to the...
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- Mar 5, 2014
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Bought a new SSD. Should I install Ubuntu 12.04 or wait for 14.04?

Just run fstrim once a week or whenever you do a lot of deletes from the SSD. Commands: "sudo fstrim -v /" "sudo fstrim -v /home" if that's on a different partition. "sudo fstrim -v /media/###" where ### is another mounted volume.
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Jan 16, 2014
- Forum: Operating Systems
F
Power Plants and Other Vital Systems Are Totally Exposed on the Internet

Some old systems still use PLC (Power line carrier). Serial comms over SDH/PDH mux channels and TCP are also used. For example DNP3 over mobile and satellite networks.
- F1shF4t
- Post #12
- Nov 20, 2013
- Forum: Security
F
Floating Happily in Black Caviar!

SSDs go into my computers, HDDs into my NAS boxes. Arguing of using either one to fulfill both jobs for me (at this point in time, might change in a few years) is nonsensical in my opinion. While I see no issues with using a HDD as boot drive, personally I wouldn't do it cause it's annoying to...
- F1shF4t
- Post #28
- Nov 17, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
SSDs and Power Loss Protection

The only consumer SSDs I know which do have power loss protection are the crucial m500 and intel 320 (which is now outdated). I did get a m500 for my external usb3 data drive for that reason. No idea if it is worth it tho as I've never seen any tests which show how effective the PLP is on it.
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- Oct 28, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Who else is in the 1TB+ SSD Club?

Made the switch to SSD only for all my systems over the last 2 years, even the work laptops. Currently have the following in various systems: Crucial M500 - 960GB, 480GB Plextor M5 - 512GB Crucial M4 - 512GB, 256GB Corsair PP - 256GB Samsung 840 - 500GB, 250GB, 120GB Sandisk Extreme - 480GB...
- F1shF4t
- Post #19
- Oct 26, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
sandforce compression ratio ?

Yep You can still use file system compression, but then sandforce is a terrible choice as you would not be able to take advantage of its compressible read/write speeds.
- F1shF4t
- Post #10
- Oct 21, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
sandforce compression ratio ?

As far as I know those SMART attributes just show the number of writes as issued to the SSD by the OS and the number of writes the controller has done to NAND. The ratio is called write amplification BTW, and sandforce is the only controller where it can be less than 1. (other...
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Oct 21, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
sandforce compression ratio ?

As I said in the post above, the OS has no knowledge of the compression, it is all internal to the drive. For example if you write 50GB of data to a 120GB sandforce SSD the OS will see that 50GB out of 120GB is used. Internally say the data was compressible and only 30GB was written to NAND...
- F1shF4t
- Post #6
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
sandforce compression ratio ?

Just have to look at the ratio of host to NAND writes in SMART. I can't remember if I've seen any article go into depth on the compression ratios though. As far as files and used space as reported to the OS it will be the same. All the NAND space saved by compression is used as spare area...
- F1shF4t
- Post #3
- Oct 20, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Intel 530 180G for $145 or Kingston HyperX3K 240G for $175?

Samsung's TLC is rated for 1K write cycles, while most things i've seen about 19nm MLC is that it's rated at 3K. I do agree that things are getting worse in terms of write cycles but due to larger sizes and better controllers I don't think write endurance for consumer work loads is of any...
- F1shF4t
- Post #6
- Oct 18, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
What things need to happen to make you switch to Linux 100%

Not much is needed for SSD. Just have to use a tool which aligns the partitions properly (Ubuntu installer and gparted do) when you create them. As far as Trim, no need to enable it, just run "sudo fstrim -v /" + whatever other mount points you have once a week or whatever time you need...
- F1shF4t
- Post #24
- Oct 15, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
F
Windows 8.1 Consumer Preview ruined my life

Here is a hint OP. If you are going to stuff around with installing a new OS unplug all your existing drives. (It's even a good idea to do so when doing a fresh install with other data drives plugged in) Windows can be completely retarded in where it puts the boot files.
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Sep 6, 2013
- Forum: Operating Systems
F
Extreme Overprovisioning

From that article the OP should look at Figure 4 on page 4. He's using an OS with Trim so all the free space will be treated as over-provisioning. Even in linux you can just use fstrim. In other words doing any sort of partitioning schemes for it is a complete waste of time. The only place it...
- F1shF4t
- Post #16
- Aug 14, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Samsung 840 Pro- Higher wear-out rate?

Was the SSD wear leveling count 0 out of the box? Two out of three 840s I have came with something like 5-8.
- F1shF4t
- Post #7
- Aug 12, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Should I buy a used SSD?

I got 10TB writes on my 3 year old 160GB G2 and its still 90%+ life remaining. Mostly linear writes and 4k writes cause completely different wear levels. Here a 40GB G2 lasted 180TiB writes before hitting spec write cycles. Whats the estimated life remaining % in Intel ssd toolbox?
- F1shF4t
- Post #11
- Jul 31, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Whats with these SSD benchmark softwares?

Let me guess Corsair Force 3 SSD in sig? Those results are about right for a sandforce ssd using asynchronous NAND. The performance difference is due to ATTO using completely compressible data and CrystalDiskMark using incompressible data. (You can set CrystalDiskMark to use 0-fill or...
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- Jun 6, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
LTS vs normal newer release?

LTS does get "some" updates for the first 2 years. For example I'm running Kernel 3.5 on my 12.04LTS install. (It should also get updated to 3.8 in 12.04.3 sometime in august) As far as Firefox goes it gets regular updates, there is a short lag though. I'm on version 21 right now.
- F1shF4t
- Post #9
- Jun 3, 2013
- Forum: Open Source
F
Mark reallocated sectors as bad

If there are enough relocated sectors to effect performance I'd say its time to replace the HDD. A few sectors are not going to cause any significant speed difference. (we're talking 512 or 4096 bytes here)
- F1shF4t
- Post #4
- May 23, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Samsung 840 and Pro Firmware DXT08B0Q / DXM05B0Q

Thanks for the heads up. Just update my 840 using the ISO. No issues.
- F1shF4t
- Post #5
- May 14, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Replacement for a Crucial M4

I think he's referring to this http://forums.crucial.com/t5/Solid-State-Drives-SSD/Bios-is-not-recognize-crucail-m4-SSD-64GB/td-p/63835 (Second Post) I've had my 512 M4 lockup once as well. I used less steps but essentially it was the same. Leave the power plugged in for a few mins, then plug...
- F1shF4t
- Post #8
- May 14, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Free space on SSD

I think you should have a look at some articles on how SSDs work. This old AT one is good to start: http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/5 Simply put on a SSD Logical Locations(What you see in OS) != Physical NAND locations. The SSD controller keeps a map which translates the Logical addresses...
- F1shF4t
- Post #17
- May 14, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
SATA II vs III and SATA 3Gbps vs 6Gbps

SATA 3Gbps is SATA II SATA 6Gbps is SATA III SATA III is backwards compatible with SATA II. So either SATA II or III will work. Get whichever is cheaper.
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- May 13, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Free space on SSD

Partitioning has no affect on wear leveling of the drive. SSDs will move static data around to get even wear. (Static wear leveling)
- F1shF4t
- Post #11
- May 13, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
Toshiba Q Series SSD

I wonder what controller it uses. The 128GB drive specs sure look like Sandforce (552/501 MBs* *ATTO Disk Benchmark 2.47).
- F1shF4t
- Post #2
- May 12, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage
F
250GB Samsung 840 SSD has gotten slower after format

We both agree that for consumer workload it would be extremely unlikely to wear out a SSD. Even the 120GB 840 TLC made it to about ~90TiB before its rated cycles were used up. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6459/samsung-ssd-840-testing-the-endurance-of-tlc-nand. Also the guide shows tweaks of...
- F1shF4t
- Post #15
- May 12, 2013
- Forum: Memory and Storage

RESOURCES

Top Bottom