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It seems nobody has done a comparison of SSDs vs. floppy disks yet. I think Linus should do something ridiculous for a comparison- say, run twenty (or more) floppies in a RAID to try to match SSD speeds. (SATA SSD speeds, of course, unless M.2 speeds are actually possible with this.)

 

Sorry if this is the wrong place for suggestions, I couldn't find a better place to put it.

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You need 1000 floppy drives or more to do this.  They read slower than 1mb/s.

 

There is no way to hook that many up to a PC realistically.

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2 minutes ago, The Oddball said:

Floppy Disks can't be put into RAID like traditional disks

https://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/

You can still do it though, so that's a real challenge for LMG, especially on finding old hardware (servers?)

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6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

https://www.wired.com/2009/05/five-disk-floppy-raid-4mb-of-blistering-fast-storage/

You can still do it though, so that's a real challenge for LMG, especially on finding old hardware (servers?)

You have seen their videos right? They haven’t done a very good job with stuff like this lately.

 

It would mainly be a waste of time, both for the viewer and LTT. 

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4 minutes ago, Ertman said:

You have seen their videos right? They haven’t done a very good job with stuff like this lately.

 

It would mainly be a waste of time, both for the viewer and LTT. 

who are 'their'?

 

Consider they did the SLI Nvidia graphics card USB memory stick video...

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12 minutes ago, Ertman said:

You have seen their videos right? They haven’t done a very good job with stuff like this lately.

 

It would mainly be a waste of time, both for the viewer and LTT. 

Sounds no different to any other video ;)

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10 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

who are 'their'?

 

Consider they did the SLI Nvidia graphics card USB memory stick video...

USB memory stick RAID can actually be useful and anyone can do it.  I doubt most of LTT viewers know what a floppy drive is, let alone have one.

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38 minutes ago, jlc said:

It seems nobody has done a comparison of SSDs vs. floppy disks yet. I think Linus should do something ridiculous for a comparison- say, run twenty (or more) floppies in a RAID to try to match SSD speeds. (SATA SSD speeds, of course, unless M.2 speeds are actually possible with this.)

It'd be easier to compare a a Diablo to an SSD. If you can find one I mean (or rather, if someone would trust LMG with an Alto boot disc).

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Perhaps we should compare the speed of entering information into an Altair computer to the speed of an SSD?

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I'd rather be interesting for LMG's writers using Windows 3.1 or and Apple II.

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I don't understand the point of this. You're comparing technology that was mainly used as portable storage from the 90s to "mainstream" (it's getting there) internal computer storage that's made in a completely different way. 

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Is this like the apples to oranges comparison?
Solid State Drives are not comparable to a Floppy Disk because it wasn't technically internal storage, the closest you could get would be like a flash drive and a floppy disk but eh I still dont really see a point

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On 2018-03-25 at 11:20 PM, Jurrunio said:

who are 'their'?

 

Consider they did the SLI Nvidia graphics card USB memory stick video...

Well, I would assume LTT videos...

 

This would be infinitely worse.

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On 3/25/2018 at 8:01 PM, jlc said:

It seems nobody has done a comparison of SSDs vs. floppy disks yet. I think Linus should do something ridiculous for a comparison- say, run twenty (or more) floppies in a RAID to try to match SSD speeds. (SATA SSD speeds, of course, unless M.2 speeds are actually possible with this.)

 

Sorry if this is the wrong place for suggestions, I couldn't find a better place to put it.

What's to compare? If you want someone to try and match floppy drives to an SSD, this is impractical because the maximum speed under ideal conditions is about 1 megabit per second. You would need at least 4400 drives to match the bandwidth of a Samsung 850.

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Not to mention floppies are media meant to be inserted into a floppy disk reader. Where on earth are you gonna get those in that quantity?

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Just now, Ross Scarlet said:

Not to mention floppies are media meant to be inserted into a floppy disk reader. Where on earth are you gonna get those?

eBay.

 

Use ur brain m8.

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Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

eBay.

 

Use ur brain m8.

lemme order a couple of thousand of those then *whistles*

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