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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    No need to get mad is mostly my point here. We are in general agreement that these numbers don't line-up with real-world use, so what's your purpose here/ Well, I didn't call you ignorant, but you are looking in the wrong place...
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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    Honestly, read BB's FAQ... Not since 2012... I doubt any of those drives are still in existence. You are flat out wrong about this and clearly do not understand how disks work or are made. A disk with model number X inside of an enclosure is the exact same as a disk with model number X sold...
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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    That would be the logical assumption, but some people here are bad at analogies....
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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    Just to clarify, that TweakTown article is 1) really outdated and 2) plainly inaccurate. I am not sure why anyone would take the analysis from a review site whose reviews consist of "it fits, it works, we like it!" very seriously, and given their PR vs review nature it seems highly suspect what...
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    Hard Drive Reliability Stats for Q1 2015

    They use dampened cages these days - a big upgrade from their rubber band dampening. However, it's definitely not on the same level as enterprise of hardware. They aren't - BackBlaze's daily workload for these drives is similar to a consumer's torture test, as BackBlaze states. No they don't...
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    Noctua NH-D14 AMD & Intel CPU Air Cooler Review @ [H]

    I thought I posted something about how this cooler hasn't changed since it was last reviewed except for the upgrade to PWM yesterday, but I guess not. It should be no surprise that the 14S and 12S beat the old D14 - there have been 5 years spent in heatsink and fan development, and CPU dies have...
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    Moving to Mac for a Windows user advisable?

    Cut and paste still exist via keyboard shortcuts - finder was designed less for contextual menus and more for shortcuts. This is actually one of my favorite things about Macs - between all of the keyboard shortcuts and apps like Quicksilver my hands never leave the keyboard. cut - apple + x...
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    Moving to Mac for a Windows user advisable?

    Small FYI, you change file names by pushing "return" on your keyboard while highlighting a file or clicking "info" in the context menu. I find with older people who are habituated in more complex tasks in Windows that they don't like the transition as they have to relearn. Otherwise folks I've...
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    Explain to me the allure of vinyl. Or better yet, stop me from spending my money.

    Also, if you really want a taste of what vinyl is like, I'd suggest picking up a 180g rerelease of one of your favorite albums - a thirty year old record that has been played a hundred times will never sound as good as a brand new one. I don't own a high-end system but I feel comfortable saying...
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    Is OCZ On Its Last Legs?

    Rumor has it they're selling their consumer SSD business: http://www.techpowerup.com/192548/toshiba-looking-to-buy-out-oczs-consumer-ssd-business.html
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    Explain to me the allure of vinyl. Or better yet, stop me from spending my money.

    I have read all of these things before and still prefer vinyl, mostly when the music was recorded non-digitally, although I love the noise and mechanical interference. I'm pretty sure Sycraft is commenting on a lot of inaudible negatives (THD, bass that may not have existed on a non-digital...
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    Recommend RAID Class 3.5" SATA Drives

    HGST 5K3000, but I can't really afford enterprise drives.
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    Never buy anything from Asus! No warranty on the Phoebus!

    This is pretty much standard practice for every retailer IME. If a part of the product is broken you have to take in the whole thing. If your muffler stops working eight hours after you buy a car you don't just send back the muffler as there is a high probability that is merely a symptom. It is...
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    Mini ipad with 6.1.3, what's best to do to jailbreak?

    Ah, apparently this was only an option for half an hour a month ago. Woops!
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    Mini ipad with 6.1.3, what's best to do to jailbreak?

    You actually have many options. While evad3rs won't be releasing a 6.1.3+ jailbreak (they just started working on ios7 and decided long ago that 6.x was no longer worth working on as Apple would then know their exploit and ios7 would be different), you can downgrade to a jailbreakable version of...
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