840 Pro and HyperX 3K Pass 2 Petabytes With No Problem

[shananigans89]

I remember reading a story a while back about an SSD performance test being done by The Tech Report. Apparently, the remaining two contenders, the Samsung 840 Pro and the Kingston HyperX 3K, are still kicking. I first heard about it on my HTC One M8's Blinkfeed from engadget.com which linked me to The Tech Report's article about the test here.

 

 

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

 

For those who don't know, a Petabyte is 1,000 Terabytes. 

 

 

[79wjd]

l8 m8 :unsure:

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/263736-remember-those-consumer-ssds-that-survived-a-petabyte-of-writes-well-the-2-petabyte-barrier-was-just-crossed/

[shananigans89]

l8 m8 :unsure:

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/263736-remember-those-consumer-ssds-that-survived-a-petabyte-of-writes-well-the-2-petabyte-barrier-was-just-crossed/

? what?

[ForsakenLive]

I remember reading a story a while back about an SSD performance test being done by The Tech Report. Apparently, the remaining two contenders, the Samsung 840 Pro and the Kingston HyperX 3K, are still kicking. I first heard about it on my HTC One M8's Blinkfeed from engadget.com which linked me to The Tech Report's article about the test here.

 

 

http://techreport.com/review/27436/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-two-freaking-petabytes

 

For those who don't know, a Petabyte is 1,000 Terabytes. 

Repost, and 1PB is 1024TB

[shananigans89]

Repost, and 1PB is 1024TB

 

OH!! my bad. someone else already posted about it. thanks

[cesrai]

Repost, and 1PB is 1024TB

Nope it isn't really really.

[cesrai]

OH!! my bad. someone else already posted about it. thanks

No you are right.

[ForsakenLive]

Nope it isn't really really.

Actually it is, but the definition was taken differently by some countries and companies back in the day, specially on the era when the storage market increased widely. Given this, main HDD manufacturers took advantage and made their capacities look bigger by going with the 'K'=1000, instead of the actual 'KB' definition which was the standard on informatics. So we started to get showered in those typical '10GB' drives that were actually packing less.

Today, on projects where there is an actual need for accuracy, we have the 'i' units of measurement; KiB, MiB, etc; that when used indicate an exact 1024 conversion.

However on the communities, true techies will always acknowledge 1 GB as 1024MB.

[cesrai]

Actually it is, but the definition was taken differently by some countries and companies back in the day, specially on the era when the storage market increased widely. Given this, main HDD manufacturers took advantage and made their capacities look bigger by going with the 'K'=1000, instead of the actual 'KB' definition which was the standard on informatics. So we started to get showered in those typical '10GB' drives that were actually packing less.

Today, on projects where there is an actual need for accuracy, we have the 'i' units of measurement; KiB, MiB, etc; that when used indicate an exact 1024 conversion.

However on the communities, true techies will always acknowledge 1 GB as 1024MB.

 

Yeah nooo just look at this, a GB is 1000MB a GiB is a 1024MiB.

[The Benjamins]

? what?

he is saying its a repost, and linked the original 

[ForsakenLive]

Yeah nooo just look at this, a GB is 1000MB a GiB is a 1024MiB.

that's what I've just said. Did you read what I posted?

[cesrai]

that's what I've just said. Did you read what I posted?

You said that the tech community acknowledged that a 1GB is a 1024MB which it isn't and never should be.

[ForsakenLive]

You said that the tech community acknowledged that a 1GB is a 1024MB which it isn't and never should be.

well, pretty much all my coworkers, classmates and teachers do recognize it, and refer as it with the old terminology. Also many blogs and forums, including guides and tutorials.

[Syntaxvgm]

You said that the tech community acknowledged that a 1GB is a 1024MB which it isn't and never should be.

The only reason 1 GB is 1000 MB is because IEC is retarded. This wasn't true till 98

[Thony]

We know PETA bites u if u hurt animals but how are SSDs involed?! Kappa

Hmm so HyperX isnt a bad investment afterall, might keep my eye out for 3rd SSD lol (one 840evo, one MX100 and HyperX next haha)

[APrettyCoolWalrus]

Yeah nooo just look at this, a GB is 1000MB a GiB is a 1024MiB.

a GiB is 1024MB, that's where the two units come together

[Syntaxvgm]

a GiB is 1024MB, that's where the two units come together

No, it's 1024 MiB, and it's a retarded idea that I refuse to accept and I much prefer the traditional measurement.

They don't "come together"

1 Gib= 1024 MiB

1 MiB = 1024 KiB

1 KiB = 1024 Bytes

Think of it this way, GiB/MiB/KiB is exactly the same as the traditional 1024 conversion that a lot of people still use 16 years later.

[cesrai]

a GiB is 1024MB, that's where the two units come together

Nope 1 GiB is 1073.74MB.

[cesrai]

The only reason 1 GB is 1000 MB is because IEC is retarded. This wasn't true till 98

What?? I thought it was SI because of all Kilo and Giga can you elaborate please..

[Syntaxvgm]

What?? I thought it was SI because of all Kilo and Giga can you elaborate please..

Long story short, it was on a 1024 scale, because that's just computer convent. Then IEC in their infinite wisdom decided it had to match SI.

It's not that they are wrong, but changing it after so long just leads to confusion, even now.

[cesrai]

well, pretty much all my coworkers, classmates and teachers do recognize it, and refer as it with the old terminology. Also many blogs and forums, including guides and tutorials.

Which is wrong and a misconception and I wouldn't because a lot of people say it, Barnacules did it and I corrected him so did other people like newegg TV if it's wrong I will correct them it doesn't matter and a lot of forum members know that a 1 GB is 1000MB which dare I say are a tech community.

[Syntaxvgm]

Which is wrong and a misconception and I wouldn't because a lot of people say it, Barnacules did it and I corrected him so did other people like newegg TV if it's wrong I will correct them it doesn't matter and a lot of forum members know that a 1 GB is 1000MB which dare I say are a tech community.

Thing is the majority of the tech community are older and grew up on the traditional definition, then in 98 some small groups of people decided to change that all.

Barnacules wasn't really wrong either- not only did he learn and start programming likely before the definition change, but as far as I know windows still uses the 1024 conversion. This is why a lot of people plug in drives and think the drive uses a lot of space up formatting or whatever. It doesn't. It's just on a 1000MB=1GB, and windows is not as far as I remember.

1 TB = 0.909495 TiB, and windows uses the TiB definition for TB

[shananigans89]

LoL my bad, topic repost....post has digressed. i'm OP and i'm unfollowing this post. a Mod can delete if they feel so inclined.

[cesrai]

Long story short, it was on a 1024 scale, because that's just computer convent. Then IEC in their infinite wisdom decided it had to match SI.

It's not that they are wrong, but changing it after so long just leads to confusion, even now.

So it wasn't the other way around changed from decimal to binary.

[cesrai]

Thing is the majority of the tech community are older and grew up on the traditional definition, then in 98 some small groups of people decided to change that all.

Barnacules wasn't really wrong either- not only did he learn and start programming likely before the definition change, but as far as I know windows still uses the 1024 conversion. This is why a lot of people plug in drives and think the drive uses a lot of space up formatting or whatever. It doesn't. It's just on a 1000MB=1GB, and windows is not as far as I remember.

1 TB = 0.909495 TiB, and windows uses the TiB definition for TB

Yes you are right only MS does this Linux,OSX use decimal not binary and show it as decimal, Win uses binary units and shows them as decimal and that where a lot of problems happen like seeing HDD smaller than advertised.