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[–] 82 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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  • [–] 33 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What does the S in VS Studio stand for?

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    [–] 56 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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    NO.

    SATA(N) IS BANISHED FROM THIS HOUSE

    Edit: wait actually this is dumb. Isn't every single modern drive IDE, as in they have their controller onboard? The 40 pin connector is PATA

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    IIRC Apple drives, like those in the Mac Studio, use a version of NVMe that doesn’t have the controller onboard which is why they were so hard to reverse engineer.

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    [–] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    IDE was fine.

    Molex, however, can go fuck itself to eternity.

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I sure don't miss having to move the stupid jumpers for master/slave drives and then losing one of the bastards and having to try and jam a paperclip alongside the pins with some scotch tape to insulate it. Cable select was always a lie.

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  • Don't forget SCSI termination. There was always some extra piece of junk you needed to make it all work. No wonder we all have "the box" in the basement/attic with all the extra cables squirreled away.

    Now you take a tiny board a little bigger than a stick of gum, and press it onto the motherboard. Smaller footprint than a DIMM, mind-blowing amounts of solid-state storage. Drives? Naw, we just have chips where the "1"s stick around after you turn it off.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Wow, I had forgotten doing this. Amazing. I remember seeing m.2 drives probably 5 years after they came out and going wtf is this thing. I'll be dead soon jim

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I excitedly told my girlfriend who's big into PC overclocking that my SSD does 500mb/s. Hers is one of these newfangled M.2. NVMe drives does 5000mb/s. She also asked me if a mechanical hard drive does around 500mb/s too... I'm like 25 and right there with ya.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    [–] 24 points 1 year ago

    You kids have "serial" ATA? Ohhhh, watch this. Imma shoot these bits down this set of wires. Simultaneously.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    hmm I was thinking more like visual studio lmaooo

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    [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    IDE Master Slave Month

    No….

    Wait ..!!! It wasn’t meant like that!!!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Guess the BDSM folks with their Master/Slave relationships are included in Pride.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    What's that suposed to be? Seems like I have another meaning for "IDE"

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    The IDE standard was used to connect hard drives and optical drives in from the late 80’s to the mid 00’s. Also known as ATA, it was renamed Parallel ATA when its successor, Serial ATA (SATA) came onto the scene.

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    [+] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The second you get rid of them you are gonna need them

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    [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Heh, remember bent pins?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I love the PATA PATA of little feet old drives.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I'm loving these parodies

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Beware the Integrated Drive Electronics of March June

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    This is your yearly reminder to check your jumper settings.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Where were these drives in March?

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