On 10/10/19 4:03 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Samuel Sieb writes:
I'm not understanding what you mean here. What's wrong with several
decades?
I've got HDDs that are already that old. They still work fine. They'll
probably work fine for just as long.
SSDs haven't been around long enough, I feel, for their claimed
longevity to be proven. And no matter what it is, SSDs have a ticking
clock, counting down towards failure. I just have a conceptual problem
with hardware that's guaranteed to fail at some point. There's no
expiration date on regular HDDs.
Regular HDDs have a ticking clock just like any other hardware. I've
had ones that lasted a decade, but I've also had ones that lasted only a
year or two. SSDs tend to have more catastrophic failure though, but
that's what RAID is for anyway.
$3K is way overkill. You could get an AMD 16-core with 64GB of RAM
for much less than that. And that would even be more than you need.
Most build
Where, for example?
I don't know where you are, but I just looked at the prices at my local
computer store.
systems are not parallel enough to use that many cores. An 8-core is
plenty. Your biggest speed improvement would be that SSD that you
don't want to use. And if you're not wanting to play the latest hot
games, you can get the cheapest graphics card you can find.
Right. I don't need games. But I do need something that just comes up
and works in X without having to fiddle with drivers; and is good enough
for video playback.
Other than NVidia, any cheap card should work. With NVidia, you might
need to install the proprietary drivers.
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