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Good solid-state storage has been the biggest quality of life improvement you can make to a single-disk device for the past decade. I get a chuckle out of coll
by washadjeffmad 5y ago
Good solid-state storage has been the biggest quality of life improvement you can make to a single-disk device for the past decade.
I get a chuckle out of colleagues who ask for copious RAM today, and while I'll usually show them where they can put money to do what they actually need better, this kitchen analogy suffices for most of their use cases:
The hard drive, RAM, and CPU are like the fridge, the prep table, and the stove. In the days of high storage latency and low throughput mechanical storage, it took a few weeks to gather ingredients from the fridge and bring them back to your prep table, so it made sense to buy the largest prep table you could afford to save yourself the trip. However, your stove only had one or two burners, so you were still waiting around for one thing to finish cooking one thing so you could move on to another.
Today, high bandwidth, low latency storage like NVMe means you have an always-on instantaneous portal to the ingredients realm so there's no real need for the extra-large prep table. It's usually better to spend the money on more burners for the stove so you can keep it as busy as possible and get the most work out.
It's a vast over simplification, but I can't help but sigh when someone says they literally cannot do their job without 64GB of RAM and then choose a quad-core or some low-power series laptop.
- maccard 5y ago> I get a chuckle out of colleagues who ask for copious RAM today, and while I'll usually show them where they can put money to do what they actually need better, this kitchen analogy suffices for most of their use cases: Industry dependent, of course. Desktop processers are getting more and more parallel, and more cores requires more ram. I have a 32 core Threadripper in my workstation with 128GB RAM, and on full compiles I still OOM. My next upgrade to this machine will be 192GB.
- shaky-carrousel 5y agoCan I ask you which motherboard do you have? I'm thinking on building a PC, but the last time I did that was twenty years ago, so my knowledge is slightly obsolete.
- maccard 5y agoI've got an asus rog zenith ii extreme. I had an MSI board before that had trouble with the RAM and had a back and forth with MSI on before just sending it bacj. As the other commenter pointed out, pcpartpicker is the way to go. My method was to find the CPU, chassis and amount of ram I wanted, enter them into pcpartpicker and pick out the test of the components with their help for compatibility except ram. When it came to ram, the motherboard providers have a list of "officially supported" sticks, down to the model number. I went through that list checking reviews and availability and ended up with some g skill ram.
- shaky-carrousel 5y agoI'll try that out , thanks!
- klyrs 5y agoI use pcpartpicker. It has a pretty good hardware compatibility matrix and pulls prices from a variety of stores online. Doesn't do a perfect job with packing hardware in small cases, but it warns you that it can't guarantee a fit. Your skills from 20 years ago will serve you well: download the manuals for the motherboard; they're more accurate than the specs listed on any other website.
- shaky-carrousel 5y agoThanks for the advice, I'll check pcpartpicker out. > Your skills from 20 years ago will serve you well: download the manuals for the motherboard; they're more accurate than the specs listed on any other website. In ye olde times we didn't even had google, and the web was pretty empty. I had to buy the parts by shopping around in my neighborhood.
- chefkoch 5y agoI am honestly shocked that someone working in IT would even think about working with a laptop with a spinning disk. This isn't 2010.
- washadjeffmad 5y agoSome don't have the choice! https://www.airforcemag.com/fix-my-computer-cry-echos-on-social-media-air-force-cio-responds/ https://www.airforcemag.com/fix-my-computer-cry-echos-on-soc...
- rdtwo 5y agoI’ll take spinning disk over vdi any day. VDI is the worst
- fomine3 5y agoVDI and spinning disk is most terrible. No one care IOPS.