moores law states that every 2 years the number of dildos doubles

Quote from: xX MLG L3G1T |\|05C0P35  H4X0R!!!!1Xx on 30-11-2012, 03:45:06 AM

On the subject of SSDs, if I'm going to judge when I should get one, would it be accurate to calculate the future pricing using Moore's Law?

no. Moore's law dictates computational ability not market value, and besides that it is related to chip architecture and not drive memory. Companies base price off of demand, not how sophisticated the architecture is.

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At that, if both SSD pricing and flash drive pricing follow Moore's law the same, isn't USB 3.0 getting cheaper and more widely used faster than SATA 3?(which seem to be basically comparable). If that's the case, using flash drives in place of SSD should be getting proportionally cheaper.

Dude it's literally not possible to do hard or soft raiding on USB drives, because flash memory doesn't work in a way to allow that. When you pass a file to a flash drive, the flash drive uses an on-board processing unit to determine how to store the file in block memory. When you pass a file to a hard drive or SSD no on-board processing is done(I'm not 100% sure about SSDs but I'm assuming), there is a direct transcribing of 1's and 0's (as far as I know).

Even if you did find a way to raid together a bunch of USB drives you'd be dealing with two main limiting factors. The first is that you wouldn't be able to optimize block space since you would have to break the file up into blocks beforehand to send to the drives. The second is the fact that you have to pre-process the file, which would then be processed again by each drive. This would make writing data so inefficient that you may actually end up with a slower transfer rate than an individual flash drive or SATA2 HDD.

Also I should mention that the probability of having memory corruption in a raided flash drive would be increased by every additional flash drive present.

Basically this is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a very long time.
 

And at least now I know why. Thank you.

Quote from: highly on 01-12-2012, 20:21:37 PM

Quote from: xX MLG L3G1T |\|05C0P35  H4X0R!!!!1Xx on 30-11-2012, 03:45:06 AM

On the subject of SSDs, if I'm going to judge when I should get one, would it be accurate to calculate the future pricing using Moore's Law?

no. Moore's law dictates computational ability not market value, and besides that it is related to chip architecture and not drive memory. Companies base price off of demand, not how sophisticated the architecture is.

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At that, if both SSD pricing and flash drive pricing follow Moore's law the same, isn't USB 3.0 getting cheaper and more widely used faster than SATA 3?(which seem to be basically comparable). If that's the case, using flash drives in place of SSD should be getting proportionally cheaper.

Dude it's literally not possible to do hard or soft raiding on USB drives, because flash memory doesn't work in a way to allow that. When you pass a file to a flash drive, the flash drive uses an on-board processing unit to determine how to store the file in block memory. When you pass a file to a hard drive or SSD no on-board processing is done(I'm not 100% sure about SSDs but I'm assuming), there is a direct transcribing of 1's and 0's (as far as I know).

Even if you did find a way to raid together a bunch of USB drives you'd be dealing with two main limiting factors. The first is that you wouldn't be able to optimize block space since you would have to break the file up into blocks beforehand to send to the drives. The second is the fact that you have to pre-process the file, which would then be processed again by each drive. This would make writing data so inefficient that you may actually end up with a slower transfer rate than an individual flash drive or SATA2 HDD.

Also I should mention that the probability of having memory corruption in a raided flash drive would be increased by every additional flash drive present.

Basically this is one of the dumbest ideas I've heard in a very long time.
 

And at least now I know why. Thank you.

you're welcome

I didn't know that there were first graders that knew so much about computers!

So when I make a poinjt that even Dissident thought had some validity, simply point out that in the past, I'm considering a generally bad poster, can completely undermine that? 

Quote from: X23 on 30-11-2012, 04:15:02 AM

I didn't know that there were first graders that knew so much about computers!

So when I make a poinjt that even Dissident thought had some validity, simply point out that in the past, I'm considering a generally bad poster, can completely undermine that? 

sounds like a classic case of bad first impressions

Quote from: X23 on 30-11-2012, 04:15:02 AM

I didn't know that there were first graders that knew so much about computers!

So when I make a poinjt that even Dissident thought had some validity, simply point out that in the past, I'm considering a generally bad poster, can completely undermine that? 

yes. owned.