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[flibberdipper]

4 hours ago, GamerDude said:

nVidia's latest and greatest...

 

 

And a Longines Hydro Conquest 41mm Automatic, my last watch purchase....I swear! I double swear that!!!

 

And to think I gave you two months at most before you caved... And here we are two weeks later.

[GamerDude]

6 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

And to think I gave you two months at most before you caved... And here we are two weeks later.

What can I say? I'm a weak WEAK man!  No more after this as I've achieved my goal of having a couple of Rolex, an Omega, a Longines and a Tag Heuer.

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, GamerDude said:

No more after this

[Guest]

 

 

@CableMod USB 3.0 header right angle extension so I can fit fans in the bottom AND have front USBs.

[Mr.Dingle]

[Hiro Hamada]

My entire pc setup

[Hiro Hamada]

36 minutes ago, Densetsu said:

 

 

@CableMod USB 3.0 header right angle extension so I can fit fans in the bottom AND have front USBs.

What camera did you use to capture that?It looks like a perfect shot!

[Guest]

1 minute ago, Hiro Hamada said:

What camera did you use to capture that?It looks like a perfect shot!

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV w/ 100mm L Macro. Thanks!

[Dackzy]

10 hours ago, GamerDude said:

nVidia's latest and greatest...

And a Longines Hydro Conquest 41mm Automatic, my last watch purchase....I swear! I double swear that!!!

Damn that is a nice looking watch  

[Age of 9394]

3$ white paint

[nbrowser]

3 hours ago, Age of 9394 said:

3$ white paint

I like it! Heck might even be inspiration for me to try that on my two ROG Strix cards. All black just looks...meh. Nice mod!

[Lathlaer]

Got this bad boi ;-)

 

[Guest]

 

Multi-purpose 10" screen.

[Jimmy Thang]

On 1/7/2013 at 9:23 AM, BioShock96 said:

What did you buy today?

For me, i just had a McDonald's Big mac chicken and some fries.

I ordered six Big Macs with extra sauce, fast food rocks!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

I'm going to be eating mustard sandwiches (without the bread) for a long time.

 

[flibberdipper]

1 hour ago, Lady Fitzgerald said:

I'm going to be eating mustard sandwiches (without the bread) for a long time.

 

 

I'm deathly curious what these sexy things are going into.

[Arika]

 

[nbrowser]

1 hour ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I'm deathly curious what these sexy things are going into.

Same here...that's just pure sex right there...24TB of SSD goodness.

[Pickles von Brine]

2 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I'm deathly curious what these sexy things are going into.

Fitz doesn't use hard drives at all and only uses SSDs. She has been for a long while now. Crazy I know but it is what she does. Actually, I don't think she even owns a single mechanical drive. 

[flibberdipper]

44 minutes ago, Lord Xeb said:

Fitz doesn't use hard drives at all and only uses SSDs. She has been for a long while now. Crazy I know but it is what she does. Actually, I don't think she even owns a single mechanical drive. 

That doesn't help my raging SSD boner after seeing half a dozen 4TB drives.

[Pickles von Brine]

16 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

That doesn't help my raging SSD boner after seeing half a dozen 4TB drives.

Trust me, I know what you mean. When Fits told me what she does I pretty much had a climax on the spot. 

[Lady Fitzgerald]

3 hours ago, tmcclelland455 said:

I'm deathly curious what these sexy things are going into.

 

1 hour ago, nbrowser said:

Same here...that's just pure sex right there...24TB of SSD goodness.

 

1 hour ago, Lord Xeb said:

Fitz doesn't use hard drives at all and only uses SSDs. She has been for a long while now. Crazy I know but it is what she does. Actually, I don't think she even owns a single mechanical drive. 

 

15 minutes ago, Lord Xeb said:

Trust me, I know what you mean. When Fits told me what she does I pretty much had a climax on the spot. 

 

32 minutes ago, tmcclelland455 said:

That doesn't help my raging SSD boner after seeing half a dozen 4TB drives.

All right, you guys, don't force me to hose you down. 

 

All seriousness aside, I had four 4TB 850 EVOs in the desktop that died on me recently. I would have had Pros in there except Samsung never came out with an 850 Pro in 4TB  . Each of the data drives from the old desktop has a set of four backup SSDs, also 4TB 850 EVOs: two of each set are local backups and the other two of each set are offsite backups (I keep the offsite backups in my safe deposit box at my credit union and swap them out with my onsite backups no less than once a month to keep them up to date).

 

The desktop I've been building over the past couple of years or so will be the recipient of five of the new 4TB Pros once I finally finish it (the sixth one will be a spare since I can't get these little buggers locally). The first four will be populated by the data on the four drives from the old desktop, then those four drives will become the backup drives for the new fifth SSD destined for the new desktop.

 

I have a 2TB 850 EVO in my notebook and carry two more for backups in the notebook's carry case. I don't worry about offsite backups for the notebook since the data on it is replicated on one of the desktop data drives.

 

Since I'm retired on a so called fixed income, the only way I could afford all these, besides going on a breadless mustard sandwich diet, was I decided to keep my '08 F150 for quite a few more years since it had only 50k miles on it a couple of years ago and is still in excellent condition. That actually has saved me money since all the SSDs cost only a little over half what a new truck would have set me back. With any kind of luck, I'll die before the truck does.

 

My justification (besides pure lust) for shelling out the shekels for the SSDs is I'm a handicapped senior citizen and lugging backup HDDs to and from my credit union was killing my shoulders and back. And that was back when I had to lug only six HDDs around (I called their transport case the QE2's anchor). Increased speed and taking up less room were delightfull bonuses.

 

I still have three HDDs, all 2.5". Two are 500GB 7200 rpm WD Blacks and the third is the original 500GB 5400rpm Seagate that was in my notebook. I have no earthly idea why I kept those three; I gave the rest of my HDDs to a friend's husband (she is like a sister to me and himself is the brother I never had).

[GamerDude]

Damn, here I was doing my mental masturbation thing mulling over whether to buy a 2TB Samsung 850 Pro SSD, it is a big deal to me going more than 1TB size for SSD's. Damn, 24TB of SSD goodness......yummy!

[Lady Fitzgerald]

11 minutes ago, valdyrgramr said:

I've been thinking of going all SSD, but I need larger backup drives like 5tbs+ for storing development and A/V projects.    I don't think there's an SSD that large, so stacking 5-10tb drives is kinda a must for me atm.

They make SSDs up to 16GB but those are enterprise and/or SAS drives, not to mention seriously expensive (we're talking the GDP of a small country here). Samsung is the only one I know of making 4TB consumer SSDs.

 

The easiest way to backup a drive is to use drives of the same size for the backup drives. Have a 4TB SSD? Use a couple more of the same size drive for the onsite and offsite backups.

 

Keep in mind that SSDs are not well suited for long term storage, such as setting on a shelf powered down for a year or more. For that, HDDs or tape are the better choice. My onsite and offsite backups get swapped out no less than once a month so they set powered down no more than a month or so.

[Volbet]

More music. I've been buying quite a bit more hip-hop recently, so that kinda shows:

Left to right, top to bottom:

Everyhting's Fine by Jean Grae & Quelle Chris, Ad Manifestationem Diaboli by K.F.R., Undergangens Kunst by Eskatologi, Rehearsal 2013 by Order of the Death's Head, Clppng by Clipping, Doggy Style by Snoop Dogg, Year of the Snitch by Death Grips, Viibrations of Blood and Hate, by Akasha & Unrest, Past Times of Eternal Downfall by Azelisassath, Nexus of Teeth by Hyperdontia, and Under Sentence of Death by Sarktista.