AmINotAlpharius

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MiscroSD as a cold storage/backup drive in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Flash-based devices as cold storage is a bad idea.

WD 28TB Ultrastar DC HC680 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

HM-SMR (Host Managed-SMR) that requires specialized hardware and software

So the history made full circle right to ST interface times.

Will wait until they invent IDE concept again.

Complete list of SMR drives as of 11/26/23 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Toshiba P300

Is a nice drive to store stuff on, it's cold and quiet, but it is a nightmare to write stuff on.

Write speed starts on optimistic > 100 MB/s, and gradually drops to 25 MB/s on long (hundreds of GBs) writes.

Fikwot SSDs on Amazon? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago

Don't buy noname memory products. It's a lottery you never win.

quality loss on ripped dvd collection in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

The picture on top (even not zoomed) shows all signs of upscaling, adding excess contrast and aggressive sharpening.