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[capitalCORN]

I'm french. No BF here.

No Bon fete?

 

[Yohane]

I'm french. No BF here.

Cyber Monday then (I know Amazon Italy do CM, I guess Amazon France do it too)

 

[LCGeek]

So ramdrive and ssd will still give me more and be cheaper not interested in buying but love the potential.

 

[entremet]

I'm currently looking into tape drives for long term storage anyways. The only SSD I need is for the OS. I used to wait 30min-1hr to play a mission in Wing Commander 3, so anything modern is a cakewalk.

What are you archiving lol? Tape seems overkill for personal use.

 

[Arttemis]

The human eye can't see smaller load times tho

You should work on a Star Wars game.

 

[aeolist]

Isn't the PCIe bus the bottleneck for seq throughput?

PCIe 3 gives about 985MB/s per lane after overhead, this drive isn't maxing its 4 lane allocation

 

[capitalCORN]

What are you archiving lol? Tape seems overkill for personal use.

I think it's just simpler to deal with a couple of near-permanent tapes than dozens of Blurays I have to keep updating as media gets bigger. Much of my library is redundancy, since I can't guarantee when my storage may give up the ghost.

 

[jstripes]

I'll get an SSD when it's reliable in storing data long term.

If you're talking about the write lifespan of the drive, it's 3D Xpoint can take 10x more writes than NAND. Plus, individual bits can be written, rather than having to write whole blocks.